Comment by modeless
2 months ago
OTOH SpaceX has a pretty good history of undercutting the industry on cost. If Starship full reusability works I would be very surprised if it only lowered launch costs by a factor of three. Of course it's not guaranteed to work, but clearly SpaceX's orbital datacenter plans are predicated on Starship working.
SpaceX has never met any milestone that Elon has ever set.
OTOH they have achieved many things that experienced people said were impossible or would never make financial sense.
OTOH they have a huge batshit crazy fanbase of boot lickers who are so gullible they'll believe and parrot anything Elon says.
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Never on time, but always eventually.
...on time.
the first booster landing after delivering a payload to orbit was quite something and made a serious stir in the industry.