Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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Absolutely.
NASA seem to have developed a good model for going forward. Get commercial firms to do the easier stuff while pioneering the more tricky stuff like deep-space travel and sharing the tech to keep the costs down.
Been screwed around by Presidents and Congress far too much. Good to see they now have some clear, achievable goals.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in SpaceX:
Absolutely.
NASA seem to have developed a good model for going forward. Get commercial firms to do the easier stuff while pioneering the more tricky stuff like deep-space travel and sharing the tech to keep the costs down.
Been screwed around by Presidents and Congress far too much. Good to see they now have some clear, achievable goals.
Yep, they are using the competition model with SpaceX and Boeing so they don’t have all their eggs in one basket. Should encourage innovation and drive costs down.
Turn rockets into trucks, and focus on building probes and habitats for the moon and Mars,and stuff like that.
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@Kirwan ooh that is awesome. The control they are showing now is amazing. I wonder how many engine/fuel/thrust tech projects they have on the go - loving how they just keep one upping themselves! and how they are all about repeated use as well.
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@Paekakboyz this thing is going to land on the moon, then come back and land. Nuts.
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@Kirwan that's insane.
Fascinating hearing the original options for landing on the moon. Lunar rendezvous wasn't even a considered option at the time - it seemed to come in quite late to the party. This is just redefining lunar work completely, SpaceX are nuts in a good way. Our kids are growing up in a golden age of space exploration -- and all appears to be sustainably privately funded.
Roll on 2021 I say!
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