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3SquirrelsinaCoat t1_j7r7g5y wrote

I fuckin love that Shotwell is the source for this and not Musk. She is the most critical element in SpaceX's success. Without her, SpaceX would have never left the mariachi party, and it is absolutely appropriate and fitting that she is the source for the news regarding the test. She really deserves so much more attention and admiration than she gets. Hate to sound like a fanboy but she's more than earned it. Absolute rock star in building and running a complicated business.

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[deleted] t1_j7rdrdo wrote

While that may sort of true don’t under estimate others heart either. And I’m not talking about Elon either.

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3SquirrelsinaCoat t1_j7riplw wrote

Very fair and true. There are some of the world's most brilliant people doing that work, history making stuff. I wouldn't want to diminish their effort. At the enterprise level, in terms of how tf do you build a space company when at the time there weren't too many examples and virtually no examples of non-major-contractor launch providers, especially with an indigenous system. The fact that she took them through that totally unknown terrain, giving the rest of the brilliant minds the runway they needed to create something wholly new, that deserves a lot more public attention than perhaps she gets.

But again, I agree with you. It takes a village of geniuses.

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BEAT_LA t1_j7s3uwc wrote

Throw muller into the mix. Merlin doesn’t exist without him.

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Fredasa t1_j7u3abl wrote

Careful, though. The army of folks with chips on their shoulders have it in for SpaceX regardless of who's doing what. The folks who will hold a party the moment anything goes wrong, even if it fundamentally means a delay for space exploration in general and NASA in particular.

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Ukulele_Maestro t1_j7ux4zq wrote

lol when did space become so polarized. There are the same such people rooting for SLS to fail because "insert reason"

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bookers555 t1_j7vbmnt wrote

Slacktivists who care more about ideology than technological advancements.

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Mackheath1 t1_j7udi7r wrote

Yes, I'm happy to be corrected about Shotwell, but I share the same impression as an outsider watching the past few years.

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