The signals look promising that SpaceX and its commercial competitors can make it so. And while all the pre-launch prep and post-launch drama was going on elsewhere, SpaceX’s drone ship Of Course I Still Love You sailed serenely into port on Thursday, carrying the landed booster from the successful JCSAT-18/Kacific1 launch on December 16th. He said the Dragon flight “was a crucial step and makes the chances of becoming a multiplanet species more likely.” Elsewhere is a live music venue, nightclub and arts space, housed in a converted warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Musk envisions a manned Mars mission, possibly within a decade.
Yes, we know that sending an unmanned spacecraft to the space station is a been-there-done-that feat but SpaceX, and other private spacecraft companies, have plans for splashier space exploits. In other words, NASA set goals and let SpaceX figure a way to achieve them. The company produces space transport vehicles for cargo resupply missions, arming the space industry with reusable launch vehicles capable of carrying humans to Mars and elsewhere. NASA allowed SpaceX “to set the design, establish test procedures, check prototypes and take the lead in determining details of manufacturing hardware,” The Wall Street Journal reported. SpaceX is the designer and manufacturer of aerospace and transport services intended to reduce space transportation costs and enable the colonization of Mars. That just guarantees companies will find the most expensive way to do something and then milk it for as long as possible.īy contrast, commercial companies, operating on fixed-price, pay-for-performance contracts, should find cheaper, more reliable ways to explore space.Ĭredit, too, NASA with overseeing the Dragon mission by nimbly getting out of SpaceX’s way. Musk, who co-founded PayPal, told us in 2010 that one of the most vital innovations for the commercial space program would be to scrap NASA’s system of guaranteeing contractors a profit beyond whatever costs they run up. Amazingly, this flight was the first time that the Dragon’s rendezvous system was used in space.Ĭredit Musk, the Internet billionaire, for creating a lean, nimble SpaceX corporate culture that delivers largely on time and within budget. to a “long downhill slide to mediocrity.”Įarth to Armstrong and other skeptics: SpaceX engineers took only four years to develop Dragon from a blank sheet of paper to its first mission. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, warned that Obama’s plan could doom the U.S. In a tweet he said the commercial space exploration firm will launch the 'DOGE-1. He said he’d outsource some of the spacecraft business to commercial space companies because they are more innovative, nimble and cost-conscious than NASA.Ĭritics detected a plummeting sky. Elon Musk has said his rocket company SpaceX will now accept the meme-inspired cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment. moon mission and yanked NASA funding for the rocket that was supposed to take astronauts there.
Quick flashback to 2010: Obama canceled a planned 2020 U.S. The success of the mission - the first of a dozen International Space Station cargo delivery flights SpaceX plans to make for NASA - is a huge boost for Obama’s space program reboot.
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