Post by kizolk on May 25, 2024 14:28:26 GMT
Dazzling comes in many shades; let there be no discrimination.
Elon Musk’s future Starship updates could use more details on human health and survival (The Verge)
Context (and some more):
The article is from 2019 but I've just chanced upon it. Headline still applicable.
It's no secret that Musk's plans for Mars are greatly overstated, but I was looking into the timelines he's given over the years: good news, we're in 2024, which means we've already sent reusable unmanned spaceships there two years ago, but even more excitingly, Man will set foot on Mars before the end of this year! What a time to be alive.
Adjusted for reality: SpaceX is nowhere near sending manned flights to Mars. They're getting closer to being able to send unmanned vehicles, but there's still a long way to go: they've only done three integrated flight tests (SpaceX's Starship is a two-stage rocket; prior to these integrated tests, only the individual stages were separately tested), whose outcomes weren't exactly brilliant. And that's okay considering how ambitious their launch vehicle is, but I'm just pointing out the fact that this is all still in its early stages.
Musk loyalists will tell you that one Elon year = two regular years. Okay. Seeing as that 2022 date for the first unmanned mission to Mars was initially given in 2017 (I've read he first said it in 2016, but I couldn't verify it), it should happen somewhere around 2027, which happens to fit something he said in 2023, namely that he had good hopes they would make it in 4 years from then. No new date for the first manned mission, as far as I could gather, though.
As for colonizing Mars in his lifetime: why, ɛloʊɛl indeed, good sir!
Note that while I think he's one of the greatest bullshitters/dreamers we've had in a while, I do have an interest in space exploration, and am looking forward to what SpaceX will do in the future. But one of the key differences between say, NASA and SpaceX, is that the former makes far less grandiose claims, yet delivers and has already landed a ton of stuff on celestial bodies that aren't Earth.
Elon Musk’s future Starship updates could use more details on human health and survival (The Verge)
Context (and some more):
The article is from 2019 but I've just chanced upon it. Headline still applicable.
It's no secret that Musk's plans for Mars are greatly overstated, but I was looking into the timelines he's given over the years: good news, we're in 2024, which means we've already sent reusable unmanned spaceships there two years ago, but even more excitingly, Man will set foot on Mars before the end of this year! What a time to be alive.
Adjusted for reality: SpaceX is nowhere near sending manned flights to Mars. They're getting closer to being able to send unmanned vehicles, but there's still a long way to go: they've only done three integrated flight tests (SpaceX's Starship is a two-stage rocket; prior to these integrated tests, only the individual stages were separately tested), whose outcomes weren't exactly brilliant. And that's okay considering how ambitious their launch vehicle is, but I'm just pointing out the fact that this is all still in its early stages.
Musk loyalists will tell you that one Elon year = two regular years. Okay. Seeing as that 2022 date for the first unmanned mission to Mars was initially given in 2017 (I've read he first said it in 2016, but I couldn't verify it), it should happen somewhere around 2027, which happens to fit something he said in 2023, namely that he had good hopes they would make it in 4 years from then. No new date for the first manned mission, as far as I could gather, though.
As for colonizing Mars in his lifetime: why, ɛloʊɛl indeed, good sir!
Note that while I think he's one of the greatest bullshitters/dreamers we've had in a while, I do have an interest in space exploration, and am looking forward to what SpaceX will do in the future. But one of the key differences between say, NASA and SpaceX, is that the former makes far less grandiose claims, yet delivers and has already landed a ton of stuff on celestial bodies that aren't Earth.
