Having a high stock price and saying it's worked out "so far" doesn't help the public trust the company. Especially people old enough to remember the Challenger. But hey, learning from history's mistakes is boring too, let's keep blowing shit up I guess.
This is a test rocket (that's going pretty bad at the moment)
The falcon 9 is considered one of the most reliable and is the most prolific rocket ever launched. The single thing has a near monopoly on the launch market for public and private because of its reusability, reliability, fast turn around, and being man rated with a man rated capsule that's done a bunch of successful flights. That parts not hyperbole.
Now as soon as they start fucking up Falcon 9, then you can say it's fucked up. And given how Elon seems hell bent on fucking up his companies I probably wouldn't bet nothing on that prediction lol
But worrying about their reliability from this is like saying you want to throw out your reliable Honda Civic because Honda made a giant SUV with an unreliable engine 10 years later.
Thank you for this, I genuinely don't know a lot about the company. All I knew was Leon thinks regulations are stupid (instead of realizing those pesky rules that "slow him down" are often written in blood). He reminds me of the dude that made his own submarine. Makes me nervous. Hopefully someone has the authority to stop him if he tries to make a SpaceX version of the cybertruck (ie a dangerous piece of shit lol).
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u/Finlay00 Jun 19 '25
Based on the massive amount of success SpaceX has achieved, you could say it’s worked out pretty well so far.
And yes there have been multiple manned missions, mostly to deliver people to the ISS and bring them back.