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NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation(arstechnica.com)

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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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At what point does cheapness outweigh reliability? It was good to keep wasteful and incompetent military contractors on their toes, but that’s going to have diminishing returns, eventually.

Elon’s vision is spaceflight cheap enough for extremely wealthy consumers to frequent, any further in that direction and SpaceX maybe might no longer benefit the general public.

We’ll see.

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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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You don’t think starship will be able to be reliable? I think they’ll get falcon 9 like reliability performance at least, and they’re aiming for a lot better.

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