We at SpaceX would like to remind the losers who have been gleefully pointing out how often our rockets explode that exploding rockets are a completely normal part of spaceflight.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Imagine the flight envelope as a graph. Going further to the right means going faster. Going further up means going higher. The goal of test flights is to push against the upper-right hand corner of that envelope. Unfortunately, that’s also where your postage gets stamped.

    • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Frankly I wish there were more companies out there blowing up rockets, and more of them had nothing to do with Musk or Bezos