Consequently, the South African billionaire has been put in charge of a so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” to excise $2 trillion from the national budget. Whether this advisory group will be able to take aim at the Artemis program remains to be seen.
There are no humans on starship when it is being re tanked in orbit, so no its not more dangerous to humans. SpaceX are experts at in space docking, proven by their dragon capsule that docks perfectly with the space station evey time, and a startship launch will eventually be cheaper than a Falcon 9 launch. Yes I believe spaceX when they say that because they have always proved the nay sayers wrong (flacon 9 landings) and will continue to do so in the future. So you’re wrong calling it expensive, all launches to retank the lander will cost less than a NASA SLS launch that will actually take the humans to space.
You sound like a United Launch Alliance shill lol, that’s the arguments they tried to use to win the contract over spacex too.
I think most of you hate on SpaceX because of musk, and I agree fuck musk, but spaceX is the most revolutionary space company in our generation and I can’t wait to see them continue to prove you all wrong like they always do and keep advancing human space flight capabilities.
Unmanned launches can’t be dangerous to humans? Even if there aren’t humans on the starship, you’re still talking about synchronized docking in orbit, which can fail and spew dangerous debris across leo.
Aww yes, two examples are surely a big enough sample to guarantee safety for the foreseeable future. Surely something that’s gone right twice has never failed in the future…
Maybe for individual launches, But for a lunar or mars mission…
Nah, I think SpaceX has done a lot of brilliant things. I just think musk has a tendency to over hype and over promise whenever he really gets involved in a project.