ace17708

ace17708 t1_j87mfyw wrote

This is great for Blue Origin! Competition is fantastic at pushing for better tech and safety standards along with SOP and culture at work.

I seem to recall early in Space Xs life people were look forwards to competition and welcoming it. Same thing happened with Tesla with Musk and the fanbase welcoming it. Then competitors come and all goodwill leaves with people wanting them to fail and quit before they even attempt anything.... thats not productive for anyone.

Also I remember some people here and at a certain Private space sub reddit wishing for the SLS to explode on launch so NASA can just abandon it... Toxic team cheering is not a good look.

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ace17708 t1_ixfuxn4 wrote

Most launch vehicles are place holders in general. Once the technology freeze comes into place they will rarely add on modern innovations to existing/nearly complete launch vehicles. They're basically out of date on the first launch. Even during the hay day of the Saturn V they were working on the next one and they were working on several for the space shuttle. The Falcon 9 program is much a demo/test bed and will probably never make profit, but the successors of it 100% will be profitable if not very different from what we'd expect.

The ISS was a placeholder originally to prevent Russian brain drain and keep funding for nasa going.

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