Comment by ceejayoz
1 day ago
> But also NASA landed two SUVs on mars first try, using skycrane, Full remote. they developed and built mars helicopter/drone (rip). First try. But spaceX gets the glory because... break things??
NASA lost a good number of probes in the process of getting the expertise to do that.
And likely quite a few test devices in building out the skycrane.
citation needed
You cant be making shit up and equating a test to blowing up 7 rockets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Observer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander
wtf does that have to do with Curiosity program? All of these are 2+ decades old.
Besides, you make it as if SpaceX couldn't learn from nasa mistakes, not to mention core team of SpaceX are ex-nasa already.
what kind of elon musk logic is that?
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