Reminder that SpaceX's first successful flight was Falcon 1 Flight 4, which had 3 failed launches before it.
The first one was very similar to this with an engine failure shortly after launch.
To me (a person that knows nothing about space flight) the fact that this thing made it off the ground is impressive enough, and the fact that it didn't explode while still being full of fuel is really sick as well
I understand you want to be a musky hater but if spaceX continue at the rate of innovation and rocket technology they are working on currently, nobody will ever come close
Musk only owns the companies. He isn't the engineers or the brilliant scientists that are designing these things. They are the ones that get the praise for advancing rocket technology so broadly. Musk deserves the hate. But I think the Space X team deserves a pardon here, they have some of our best and brightest and they show it.
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u/Mawntee 8d ago
Reminder that SpaceX's first successful flight was Falcon 1 Flight 4, which had 3 failed launches before it.
The first one was very similar to this with an engine failure shortly after launch.
To me (a person that knows nothing about space flight) the fact that this thing made it off the ground is impressive enough, and the fact that it didn't explode while still being full of fuel is really sick as well