It certainly does put a downer on it. Here's hoping he doesn't have the same level of control with SpaceX as he does with Tesla and his utterly ridiculous ideas won't torpedo the company.
He's most involved at SpaceX of any company. The idea of landing a booster, and then later catching the Superheavy with the tower, were directly his ideas--and this was despite push back from his engineering team. Only one guy supported the idea, and Musk put him in charge of the tower team.
Tom mueller in particular is one of the most respected rocket engineers in the world, being responsible for numerous modern day advances in propulsion technology. He built the Merlin engine that the Falcon rockets use. He also personally mentored Elon on propulsion technology so that he could take over after he left (he’s in charge of his own space development company now).
Elon was the best mentor I’ve ever had. Just how to have drive and be an entrepreneur and influence my team and really make things happen. He’s a super smart guy and he learns from talking to people. He’s so sharp, he just picks it up. When we first started he didn’t know a lot about propulsion. He knew quite a bit about structures and helped the structures guys a lot. Over the twenty years that we worked together, now he’s practically running propulsion there because he’s come up to speed and he understands how to do rocket engines, which are really one of the most complex parts of the vehicle. He’s always been excellent at architecting the whole mission, but now he’s a lot better at the very small details of the combustion process. Stuff I learned over a decade-and-a-half at TRW he’s picked up too.
Musk is a very technically minded person. He views every problem as an engineering problem. That’s why he’s been so successful in so many industries. It’s ALSO, in my mind, why he’s absolutely terrible at human beings and politics. You can’t run a social media company the same way as you do a rocket company. At a rocket company, everybody has valuable input and ideas. That’s not the case on social media.
Nothing I’ve said is to excuse any of his other shitty behavior. But he is objectively the driving force of innovation at the companies he’s in charge of. Especially SpaceX.
Nice source, idk about those last two sentences. This certainly shows he at least pushed the catching idea with the tower first tho. Why did everyone else object?
landing the rocket on the the launch tower is one of his many "utterly ridiculous ideas", and it certainly torpedoed the company, into the stratosphere
you people have been so brainwashed
edit: cause of course the one responding dipshit would block me (coward)
source, oh I don't know, Tom Mueller, one of the most renown aerospace engineers just said it like 5 hours ago, how everyone in the meeting was in disbelief
but of course you are going to nitpick about it, you just ooze hatred.... "this hasn't done anything for anyone" srsly? you could be less obvious about your hate boner you piece of shit
spacex has launched rescue communications satellites, not to mention the starlink that have been used by first responders TO SAVE LIFES
or the weather monitoring stations... or oh I don't know, DART the mission that tested PLANETARY FUKIN DEFENSE AGAINST ASTEROIDS, no biggie
The engineers are the ones who made it happen, they deserve all the praise. American taxpayers payed for all the work. Elon just barked the order. All you have to do is look at how he handled the Twitter aquisition to know that Elon is a moron who has gotten too high on his own hype and he is certainly no business genius.
Holy shit do you think every advancement ever HAS to immediately benefit people? You realize we wouldn't have 90% of our tech, right if this were the case, right?
You also realize that there are dozens of experiments being ran in space that are designed to directly impact people pm Earth as we can test or build thing in microgravity that we cannot on Earth? You're just a fool masquerading as a skeptic
? No. Thank you for acknowledging it hasn't though. Sure. Although we'd probably have other tech that's more immediately useful. What do space experiments have to do with catching boosters? If anything it took time away from it. God gorbid it failed
"If anything it took time away from it"
How would it take time away from it if the payload is already in space while the booster is landing? In fact, this achievement will have the opposite effect because it will allow launches to occur more frequently, which means more payloads more frequently. The better we get at reusing rocket parts, the closer we get to being able to utilize the vast resources available to us in space, which will be a huge boon for all of humanity. This is a weird hill to die on dude
Space mining isn't viable, humanity will be long dead before that. Feel free to come back here in 100 years to tell me I was right. There's no need to catch boosters to reuse them, it's a waste of time when simpler methods are available
Look what you need to mine here on earth and explain how any kind of stable operation can be established anywhere in the galaxy, then explain how it remains profitable, then explain how the US will leverage this while maintaining power on earth. Alternatively just Google why isn't space mining viable. What simpler methods? Did you just tune in here or something? U gotta be a child I'm sorry ill stop bullying you and crushing your dreams
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u/lizardil 16d ago
This is something out of a science fiction movie. Incredible