Boeing and someone else are trying too. Way behind Space X. So no, not "entire space program"...

Nah, their rocket blowed up. It's time to get stinko!

It's kinda fun to be living in a time where rockets regularly blow up again. Apart from, you know, everything else going on and not wanting astronauts to die.

If this is real, please post the link!

It's not a starship, at best it's a low Earth orbit ship.

Well, now it's recycling, right?

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looks like last post was 4 days ago, but was fairly active before that

Can you smell burning Spock.

That's better efficiency. It gets to the blowing up part faster than before

it is liquid oxygen and liquid methane deflagrating, the main result is water and CO2. not exactly harmful

I think Honda has begun building spaceships/rockets too. Think they chose to build the type that don't explode. link

I now have the Street Fighter voice in my head going:

"Honda Wins!"

For the killjoy that will come pointing out that SpaceX is at another level of development etc., yes, I know that.
Japan also has a constitution written by the US that doesn't permit them to have long-range missiles.

Break out the marshmallows

Musk's starships are blowing up like his reputation

Fuck all commercial dependency. Fully fund NASA, and let them like what they did back in the 60s, which no company could have done.

Stop relying on corporations to lead our space programs. It's too important to leave to grifters and corner cutters.

If Starship wasn't constantly exploding you might have a point. Seems as though that the reality is that they're all pretty much at the same spot but Elon wants to pretend that they aren't.

Thank you!

NASA has always been dependent on commercial for profit entities as contractors. The Space Shuttle was developed by Rockwell International (which was later acquired by Boeing). The Apollo Program relied heavily on Boeing, Douglas Aircraft (which later merged into McDonnell Douglas, and then merged with Boeing), and North American Aviation (which later became Rockwell and was acquired by Boeing), and IBM. Lots of cutting edge stuff in that era happened from government contracts throwing money at private corporations.

That's the whole military industrial complex Eisenhower was talking about.

The only difference with today is that space companies have other customers to choose from, not just NASA (or the Air Force/Space Force).

Honestly, rocket development has always been filled with explosions - the Saturn V had like 6 engine-out events during Apollo and the early Falcon 9 tests were just as explosive. what's different now is we get to see the failures in HD livestreams instead of classified footage that would've been buried in the 60s.