SpaceX Next - Commercial Crew

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• Commercial Crew
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[HiAdrian]

1:20 CG high five, HELL YEAH!

[BrettDunbar]

I fucking love capitalism.

[ItzTheDean]

so spaceX develops the falcon 9 for around $300 million, but NASA calculates that it would have cost around $4 billion to develop the same thing. If NASA would change its approach to development then it would probably accomplish more without budget restraints, they're not very efficient. But then again what can you do with all the political bureaucracy getting in the way. Hopefully these commercial companies succeed!

[lamorte42]

They are gonna need a little more than good retro rockets to land them on Mars. Needs a super sonic parachute and possibly a wider inflatable heat shield. I wager that no earth-bound space capsule can survive a landing on Mars without many modifications.

[3333Daz]

Chinese dominance of Earth? Likely. American domination of the solar system? GUARANTEED!

[Ledmaster2]

Spacex. Keeping it real.

Can't wait until they finish the LAS and start flying our boys on these things. Hell, i'd volunteer to fly without an LAS if they'd let me. 

[rhinnawi95]

@BrettDunbar Before our gov't finds a way to get its filthy bureaucratic hands on the space industry, of course

[fucktardickis]

long as it aint Chinese or Indian.

[Ulterior1980]

so what will the NASA do now? Scratch noses and pay the bills of spaceX?

[outforsushi]

@BrettDunbar only via capitalism could you achieve the efficiency, lower cost and higher quality. If nasa was a private company, it wouldn't survive Its bloatware

[digitaldud]

@donutey

The vast majority of SpaceX's funding has come from Elon Musk's own wallet and venture capitalists.

[donutey]

@BrettDunbar

But the vast majority of SpaceX's funding has come from the federal government....