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Starship Flight 7

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649 points chinathrow | 3 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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EncomLab ◴[17 Jan 25 11:33 UTC] No.42736458[source]▶
First Shuttle orbited astronauts and successfully recovered all intended components. Every Saturn 5 was successful, the 3rd flight sent a crew to lunar orbit, and the 6th put a crew on the moon.

To date a Starship has yet to be recovered after flight - and those launched are effectively boilerplate as they have carried no cargo (other than a banana) and have none of the systems in place to support a crew.

Some people are really fetishizing iterative failure - but just because you are wandering in the desert does not mean there is a promised land.

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1. onion2k ◴[17 Jan 25 11:54 UTC] No.42736608[source]▶
The shuttle programme was signed off in 1972, had it's first flight in 1977, and it's first crewed flight in 1981. Starship has been going for 5 years (albeit on the back of lots of other SpaceX work.) It's getting to orbit in the same time that Shuttle took to 'fly' on the back of a 747. A few lost ships is a pretty small price to pay for going twice as fast on delivery.
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2. me_me_me ◴[17 Jan 25 12:26 UTC] No.42736802[source]▶
Oh wow a company in 2020s is compared to company in 70s. Wow nice benchmark. We are going to be good as guys from 50 years ago.

Imagine Mercedes said it, or Intel or anyone. They would be a laughing stock.

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3. skirge ◴[17 Jan 25 14:11 UTC] No.42737659[source]▶
compare the cost
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