Supporter of space settlement and energy abundance. Let's expand civilization to the solar system and preserve Earth's biosphere. My pronouns are US/A
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This graph is about to be absurd. 100,000 tons, even 1 million tons per year in the next decade or 2.
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SpaceX is so important and relevant to not only spaceflight history but to history that it caused the entire nation of China revaluate their entire space program learning from SpaceX and is now replicating their business and launch models instead of NASA’s.
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i have been steadily banging the drum on domestic transformer production since 2023, and now, we have resolute grid. the last time an american company fully designed and built these was in the late 80s. so excited to see this come roaring back. incredible work!
They would try. But if SpaceX were destroyed, the future civilizations of the solar system would view history through a Chinese lens, and the Chinese respect SpaceX. So I don’t think Western losers would succeed, because the West itself ends up a backwater in that scenario.
Yes, I'm aware that communists fantasize about seizing and liquidating successful businesses and making everyone poorer.
But that wouldn't change what I'm saying. SpaceX has *already* earned an indelible place in spaceflight history by this point, nothing can change that now.
And the sci-fi writers were 100% correct. SpaceX will always be a major part of spaceflight history by this point, even it disappeared tomorrow (which it won't -- in fact its main businesses and technologies aren't close to their full maturity yet).
Craziest first launch of a crewed spacecraft ever. I say "ever" because with advances in automation we're never again going to put crew on the first launch of an unprecedentedly complex, first of its kind spacecraft. Huge respect to Young and Crippen.
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“Space fans” who don’t understand SpaceX and Tesla’s economics or care about exploration beyond a cute NASA mission every decade can’t comprehend why SpaceX must build an economy in orbit to fund real expansion.
A century from now, they’d still be content launching cute telescopes and LARPing astronomy while humanity remains trapped on Earth. Now, don't get me wrong, I love space science, but science alone isn’t exploration. We have to build.
The original NASA wasn’t filled with men content with scientific missions, but pioneers who dreamed of building civilization among the stars. They tried with everything they had and made it to the Moon with 1960s technology. They’d be ecstatic to see what SpaceX is achieving today.
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The Artemis program has recently been receiving updates and changes. Three rockets are currently being developed to support the program, each with planned upgrades and new variants to aid the effort to establish a lunar base. Here is a look at them compared side by side.
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Unironically, Starship HLS and Blue Moon Mk2’s architectures are a lot like the mass needed for Mars missions. Artemis’ “complexity” has the upside that it basically means we can do Mars whenever we feel like it. Starship is launching just as much as the highest mass Mars option.
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It's honestly insane how hyped everyone is getting for Artemis now ever since Jared took office. I have friends who aren't even into spaceflight suddenly texting me to ask questions about yesterday's events and how close we are getting to a moon landing.
It feels like NASA is finally back to doing what it should always be doing which is inspiring people, old and young, and getting them excited for what's to come
Apollo should never represent the upper limit of what @NASA can achieve. It should be a standard we continuously strive to exceed.
We’re bringing that intensity, discipline, and engineering ownership back to this agency. Great nations do not remain great by being caretakers of history, but by continuously making history.
