The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
  • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    NASA is clearly capable of things given the right circumstances and budget.

    Absolutely agree with this but there is no denying the innovation levels at spacex are higher (I’m not saying this is down to musk specifically. The man is a horror story of a human).

    We were all in total awe when seeing booster stages land themselves successfully for the first time. It was such a giant leap forward and to the best of my knowledge no government funded space agency was even considering it before spacex.

    • Senal@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      Absolutely agree with this but there is no denying the innovation levels at spacex are higher

      Undeniably, they’ve been doing amazing work (at least from my rocketry technology peasant point of view).

    • tyler@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      SpaceX has an internal team that works to make sure Musk can’t interfere with anything, because he’s so bad at managing businesses. Gwynne Shotwell is the one in charge of SpaceX.

      • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        I am not surprised in the slightest. I mean if you have a bunch of smart, highly motivated people it sounds like keeping the crazy man at arms length is the kind of thing they’d organise very effectively.