SpaceX Progress Updated for Media

Mission milestones of the first commercial spaceflight to visit the International Space Station are recapped at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas.

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[DHChkDsk]

haha Elon's "Dr. Evil" at 24:20 - 24:48

[badaboomrock]

sweet this is the beginning of a great future for man in space exploration :)

[xxsoulhuntxx]

24:10 - 26:15 spoken like a true engineer haha not very well but to the point

[moniker127]

Elon is going to die if he doesn't take a vacation some time.

[Åsmund Viktor Hagen]

Bert and Ernie 6:59

[beatlefriend]

About the Space Shuttle, one important point. It does not exist anymore. They have been decommissioned and are now museum pieces. So you are comparing the Dragon to a vehicle that no longer exists. Better to compare unmanned cargo Dragon to existing unmanned cargo vehicles like Progress, HTV ect.

[monokhem]

The GAO numbers are bloated with costs that have nothing to do with the shuttle. Even if it wasn't it wouldn't account for you calling me liar based on your lack of logic. I'm as big a SpaceX fan as you can reasonably be and I'm exited about the change coming in the space industry, but your sad illogical devotion to what SpaceX "will" do doesn't make you wiser than me. It makes you a fool. In 5 years SpaceX will still be behind the shuttle, and NASA's will still dwarf SpaceX's accomplishments.

[Charles Hoskinson]

NASA itself claims the cost is 450 million per mission and the total program cost is 196 billion as of 2011. Independent numbers from the GAO show a cost around 1.2 billion per mission. Musk has managed to build an entire company from the ground up for under 1 billion dollars that will have the ability to totally mirror the shuttle in under five years. You're a troll and unwilling to accept change. Go home now.

[monokhem]

That tells me all I need to know about your logic and reliability.

"you claimed yourself in the post I commented on the cost was at least 500 million per mission. So I guess you lied???"

what I said: "The Shuttle costs about 7 Billion to build and just under half a billion to fly."

which is less than the "500 million per mission minimum" you erroneously claimed.

As for you finding a former NASA administrator that said something stupid: "Whoopty doo!"

[Charles Hoskinson]

Google NASA eBay. NASA shouldn't have to buy parts from online auctions if the shuttle was properly designed. As for point 4, you claimed yourself in the post I commented on the cost was at least 500 million per mission. So I guess you lied???

As for the last point, a former NASA administrator agrees with me watch?v=iI5muoB7ErI

[monokhem]

1.) false

2.) false

3.) relevance?

4) false and false

5) Ridiculously False, and again: apples and oranges. SpaceX hasn't done shit next to NASA and it could be awesome for the next 30 years and still not come close to NASA.

[Charles Hoskinson]

1) It had no modularity for rapid reconfiguration

2) There was no upgrade path to improve the platform

3) The design schedule was on the scale of years and decades instead of months

4) The shuttle cost 500 million per mission minimum. Once Falcon is reusable look at 1 million per mission.

5) SpaceX is simply a better company in every single metric to the bloated NASA