NOTAMS for Thursday and Friday are up on the FAA website.
Issue Date :March 12, 2024 at 2130 UTC
Location :Boca Chica, Texas
Beginning Date and Time :March 14th, 15th, 2024 at 1150 UTC
Ending Date and Time :March 14th, 15th, 2024 at 1431 UTC
Reason for NOTAM :Space Operations Area
It's not about faster, it's about the approach. They were out there pushing National Team landers, Orbital Reef, giant multistage orbital rockets, brand new engines for ULA rockets. And all they'd managed to do was build a small sub-orbital rocket and capsule. There's no iteration from that, no building the company structures, setting pathways for development and testing. Those allow you to plan the commercial offerings with confidence (Praise Shotwell) and created space to think about those more ambitious projects.
SpaceX succeeded because Kestrel and Falcon 1 was the focus, and eventually that worked. Other possible follow-ons like Falcon 5 and Air were scrapped. What they learned as an organisation allowed them to move on to Merlin, Falcon 9 and Dragon.
That capacity may be there at BO, but there's no substitute to experience.
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Savagery. But fair.
There's a reason that the SpaceX reddit used to have a policy of not linking to space.com articles. They're badly written more often than not.