"I would say the White Sands testing did give us a surprise."
  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
    841·
    8 months ago

    Boeing was perceived by much of the industry as the blueblood of spaceflight while SpaceX was the company that was going to kill astronauts due to its supposed recklessness.

    Given leadership at both companies I wouldn’t feel too comfortable being an astronaut these days.

    • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
      423·
      8 months ago

      I disagree. SpaceX is rumoured to have hired an “Elon babysitter” and Gwynne Shotwell seems to know what she’s doing.

      But musk sucks.

      The good news is that he’s so busy with Twitter and Tesla that he’s left spaceX alone.

      I think Elon has become (or perhaps always was) an ass, but somehow he knows how to hire some pretty smart people.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        8 months ago

        I will say confideny that the problems with Tesla and Twitter’s daily operations are with Elon being directly involved daily.

        SpaceX has Gwynne to actually run daily operations and it’s just fine. Elon says his usual shit, but it doesn’t affect daily processes. The same cannot be said for Twitter and Tesla.

      • MumboJumbo@lemmy.world
        14·
        8 months ago

        Gwynne runs the show at SpaceX, and frankly, she’s fucking awesome at her job. The CEO is a blowhard, but Gwynne is calling the shots day to day.

        • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
          547·
          8 months ago

          Serious. Even if people don’t say it aloud, there are ones practically hoping for Tesla FSD to fail and kill someone, Neuralink recipient to die of complications or the Crew Dragon module to fail and kill the astronauts only so that they can say “I told you so” and then keep shitting on Elon. Any rational person would hope for these companies to succeed despite who the CEO is because it’ll benefit all of us on the long run.

          • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world
            254·
            8 months ago

            Oh seriously, f right off. Nobody wants Tesla drivers to die, they just want Musk accountable for killing the ones that died because they believed his constant lies in the videos he released and speeches he gave that “Autopilot” / “Full Self Driving” and “ROBOTAXIS ARE COMING” meant that the cars actually can drive themselves.

            Tesla only succeeded due to the hard work and innovation of its two ACTUAL founders. Ever since Elon did his cuckoo bird routine and pushed them out of the nest, Tesla has fallen behind all other car manufacturers, and have only managed to stay afloat trading carbon credits for government cash. Instead of releasing a low to mid-priced model to compete, he squeezed out the cyberturd. And SpaceX is going to ruin any chance of humans getting off this planet with Starlink. In 6 months, Starlink satellites had to make 25,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers, and they are on an exponential curve. It’s not if, but when they screw up and start the beginning of the Kessler syndrome.

            And Starship is the biggest government grift of them all. That PoS will never make it to the moon, much less Mars. It’s going to end up just like the Hyperloop.

            Elon is a con-artist whose only talent is constant market manipulation, insider trading, and fooling the gullible.

            • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
              828·
              8 months ago

              I don’t get people like you that start their rant by telling me to fuck off and then expect me to continue reading any further.

          • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
            171·
            8 months ago

            You do realise you just posted this under a comment that is doing the exact opposite and assuming SpaceX’s success, right?

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
    163·
    8 months ago

    I hope the astronauts make it back safely.

    That being said, can you imagine the irony of a Dragon capsule coming to rescue them to their deaths?

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
      312·
      8 months ago

      What’s the irony? Unlike Boeing in the past few years, SpaceX has a rather good reputation among the people whose judgement is not blinded by hatred towards the CEO.

  • randon31415@lemmy.world
    123·
    8 months ago

    I know it is corporate incompetence, but part of me wants to believe the Russians infiltrated Boeing and secretly altered repair records or falsified safety inspections just so that America’s Airspace industry would fall apart and Russki Musk could swoop in and take over.