NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission
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Re: NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission
#2I need to jump on this rocket company spacewagon.
Claude, make me a space rocket. Using only lisp, if and regex statements.Re: NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission
#3I need to jump on this rocket company spacewagon. Claude, make me a space rocket. Using only lisp, if and regex statements.
You didn't add "make no mistakes" so that first test burn will probably blow up the pad, but now you know.
Re: NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission
#4> might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
SpaceX/Musk can always spin it as “we have more ambitious goals than some lowly scientific instruments”.
Re: NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission
#5This mission is an orbital science mission studying Mars' atmosphere, not the same objective as SpaceX's long-term goal of sending large cargo and eventually humans to Mars. So I think the title might be taking the piss just a smidge.
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#6For context, Relativity gained Eric Schmidt as CEO in March last year.
They built a 3D printed small sat launcher which failed it's first launch. They cancelled further work in favour of Terran R which has less 3D printing. First launch probably early next year. First successful launch, probably late next year.
A Mars mission 2028 is not crazy but it's ambitious.
Re: NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission
#7> might just beat SpaceX to Mars. SpaceX/Musk can always spin it as “we have more ambitious goals than some lowly scientific instruments”.
Since SpaceX now includes controlling the Twitter culture war narrative, yes... lots of other things to do for "SpaceX."
I say this as a huge fan of the OG SpaceX, and a space nerd in general.
I was thinking that I felt bad for the OG SpaceX folks working on rockets, and Starlink... with all the distractions. However, many of them just became millionaires. So, what do I know.
Elon is a heck of an economic engineer. I would probably want to be along for the ride.
Re: NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission
#8Using private rocket companies is highly concerning.
Re: NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission
#9Using private rocket companies is highly concerning.
Then you know nothing of NASA and it's history
Re: NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission
#10> might just beat SpaceX to Mars. SpaceX/Musk can always spin it as “we have more ambitious goals than some lowly scientific instruments”.
Since SpaceX now includes controlling the Twitter culture war narrative, yes... lots of other things to do for "SpaceX." I say this as a huge fan of the OG SpaceX, and a space nerd in general. I was thinking that I felt bad for the OG SpaceX folks working on rockets, and Starlink... with all the distractions. However, many of them just became millionaires. So, what do I know. Elon is a heck of an economic engineer. I…
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