• psud
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    2 days ago

    I wonder if that’s what Musk is good at (he must be good at something to be in the position he is in) – good at leading engineers to try, or maybe selecting engineers willing to try

    Electric cars sucked before Tesla. Now several brands make good electrics. No one thought rocket boost stages could be recovered and reused, smart people were saying it was impossible, until SpaceX did it. No one has considered recovering and reusing the upper stage since Space Shuttle, until SpaceX announced they were going to

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      2 days ago

      Well, be it because he is good, or because he got lucky, SpaceX has been doing things right. It’s refreshed the space industry like nobody ever has before.

      I struggle giving that clown any credit whatsoever but the end result of Space X is undeniably successful, regardless of how they got there.