• Bangs42@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I desperately want SpaceX to have some competition. Competition drives innovation up and prices down.

    But at the same time, I kind of want this to be a colossal enough failure that they can’t deny that this thing isn’t ready.

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      2 months ago

      I desperately want SpaceX to have some competition. Competition drives innovation up and prices down.

      I guess this was a competition of sorts. SpaceX won.

      In retrospect, I wish NASA had had the funding for a third option as well, like crewed Dream Chaser or something. Well, hindsight is always 20/20, I suppose.

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        NASA should put out an RFI now for the next gen of commercial crew going to commercial stations in 2030+. Given that Blue Origin is working on a capsule and Rocket Lab teased a capsule concept for Neutron, I’m not convinced that Dreamchaser would win, but it would be great to see another round of actual competition.

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    My town is barely off the edge of the RUD debris zone! Huzzah! Gosling’s Ginger for everybody who isn’t hit!

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    Starliner did it! An F6 bullseye!

    As for the bingo, the only squares I caught were “>= propulsion failure” and “Stream cuts to a terrible CG model”, which had some nice telemetry on it, so I’m not complaining :)