EUROPOORS BTFO
AMERICAN TECHNOLOGOY IS THE BEST
YOU SEE THAT?
That's a GODDAMN AMERICAN FLAG IN THE BACKGROUND
>AMERICAN TECHNOLOGOY
> Werner von Braun was American
>>75906176
>5 years ago
>"there's no way SpaceX could ever beat NASA"
>"a private corporation will never be able to outdo a professional government institution"
>"we will never get into space without government funding"
>mfw
>>75906582
He was. That's how our system works.
LOOOK AT ITTTT
ITS BEAUTIFUL
SEE THE ANT SIZED PEOPLE?
SEE THE HUEG AMERICAN FLAG ON THE VAB IN THE BACKGROUND?
YEHAW
>>75906176
>MFW Leddit Europeans cried for literally days that SpaceX chanted "USA USA USA" after their successful landing
>>75906589
>"we will never get into space without government funding"
SpaceX had massive government funding. Their first payload was DARPA. NASA payed for the development of Falcon 9.
>Beat NASA
lol
>>75906681
>>75906681
HE ENTERED LEGALLY
>>75906176
Can't wait for china to steal one of these rockets off the drone barge and reverse engineer it
>>75906582
>implying he did anything in Germany that wasn't a colossal failure
>>75906438
WE WUZ ROCKET SINETITS AND SHEEIT
>>75906872
>implying china can into quality control
Bill Clinton literally gave China space rocket technology for free. Look it up.
>>75906589
NASA doesn't build rockets
>>75906582
>>75906869
WE LOVE OUR LEGAL IMMIGRANTS DON'T WE FOLKS?
>>75906176
We are from the same civilisation, faggot. Thanks our nazis who gave you the mastery of rockets
>>75906176
>Doens't even go into orbit
>>75906866
I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THE FREE MARKET WINNING
>>75906176
Good job.
Sometimes you forget how FUCKING HUEG the Falcon 9 is.
>>75907088
he's a canadian, bro
he doesn't know anything that isn't weed related
>>75907063
>China
>quality
Pick one.
They will steal it the idea and replicate it only worse kek
>>75907256
because that's the first stage dumbass
unless you have magic space dwarf technology, first stages rarely go into orbit
>>75906176
Thank Werner von Braun.
>>75906176
JEH IT WAS ALL OF MERICA EVEN YOU WITH YO SHIITY 30k in a year and that debt that you owe
fuking pleb it was the accomplishment of many different ppl from around the world
probable more indians than us citizens
but what ever im lucky that space x is successful
>pic related, its OP
>>75907404
The point remains that it is still fucking useless, with the aditional question if it will ever be able to compete with traditional rockets in terms of cost and reliability
>>75907088
Technically they do. They just don't usually build the first or second stage boosters. But they sometimes custom build the orbital rockets or other small rockets.
>>75907577
OP is disgusting
>>75906802
yeah that was pretty pathetic
>>75907656
reusing rocket parts cuts down on launch costs considerably when you don't have the production lines to just keep making shit like the russians do with soyuz
Buttblasted euros ITT
>>75907577
Then why did europoors cry for days about the USA USA chanting?
>>75907994
what the fuck you even talking about wage slave ?
>>75906176
I don't understand why you trashed all your cheap and solid space shuttles to pay the Russians for sending your satellites into space and then try to redevelop the whole wheel to have a private space travel sector. That's totally moronic but maybe that's what you Americans are.
>>75907994
I didnt. I'm proud of you, USA. You exist because of us. Your victories are ours too, and vice et versa.
>>75906438
Just like we killed a lot of Indians for our land, we killed a lot of Nazis for our rocket technology.
>>75908155
lol at least try with your bait posts
Go choke on sauerkraut
Check out this pic - the stage moved like 40 feet
>>75906866
Government contracts are still the free market nigger. That shit happens on every level in every industry.
>>75906589
They still haven't sent someone to the moon.
Also NASA did it in the 60s, before anyone in history had ever done it.
>>75906746
beautiful flag on the falcon 9 as well anon, god bless america
>>75908462
>government contracts are free market
top fucking kek
>>75908155
NASA got spooked when they lost 2 shuttles to mistakes
they were insanely expensive for launching sattelites, but for moving humans to and from space they're pretty good
>>75908155
The shuttle was primarily built to put together the space station, which it did. Meanwhile the russian space station is still in pieces in the atmosphere. Besides from what a majority of scientists say the ISS is meme science, I care more about our drones exploring then Ivan being a space taxi.
>>75908155
The shuttles had to be rebuilt bolt by bolt every fucking time and kept blowing up. It was really inefficient.
NASA is running SLS now and SpaceX looks awesome.
>>75908595
Well you live in a socialist country so I could care less about your opinion on the free market. Whether the government needs vehicle parts for a fleet or a sattelite in space the labor and funds go to a company to get it done. Government contracts are common practice in every industry. It's hardly Space Xs fault they had no competition.
>>75908685
No they weren't
The shuttles were shitty in every aspect
Safety
Cost
Capabilities
We could have literally 500% the pressurized volume of the ISS for the same cost if we kept the Saturn V around.
Fifteen skylabs. For the same cost as the ISS.
Don't believe anyone when they say the shuttle was good at ANYTHING but wasting money, killing astronauts, and holding back space travel 40 years
>>75908685
>>75908771
>>75908826
I don't get why they have to be reusable. Simply crash them into London when the fuel is out.
>>75909246
because they could
it'd be nice if they were reusable in the sense of a car being reusable after drive to work and back, and not reusable in needing a complete rebuild every time they went to space
>>75909246
Or strap some parachutes on them instead of wasting more weight on fuel for re-entry.
But hey, at least it looks cool
>>75909246
The idea was that they would be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper if they had a few shuttles on rotation that they reused but because they had to be refit, rebuilt, inspected for launch each time it made it way more expensive.
The same idea behind spacex landing rockets but it seems like spacex is on a better path.
Reminder that Musk was born in south africa, americans take merit for something they did not do once again
>>75908155
>>75908685
Incompetence and failure are memes designed to hide black budget programs, MHD powered air and spacecraft
The Military Industrial-Complex is already flying in the solar system
https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/04/30/are-the-crew-members-of-1986-space-shuttle-challenger-still-alive/
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#1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>75909075
You could care less? I think you mean 'couldn't care less'.
>socialist country
not any more socialist than yours, other than more extensive benefits systems. America is way more socialistic when it comes to military, government contracts etc... It is a huuuuge fucking bureaucracy even compared to Norway.
Government subsidies does not count as free market capitalism.
In Sweden in the 1930s when it was a free market, could I just ask the government to pay for my space shuttle business or whatever it may be? No, of course not. That is a socialistic subsidy that doesn't exist in a true free market.
Sure, government contracts mean the government outsources the work to companies that are not directly government founded. But they are however government funded. Which means they are literally subidized.
>>75909697
you made my day
>>75906746
>Tfw go to NASA and take a tour with a based bus driver
>Mocks mexicans and foreigners by calling alligators "Ahligatore"
>>75909693
>take merit for something they did not do once again
>take merit
Also, elon musk doesn't build the rockets, retard.
What is this europoor shit? Pretty much everyone here is richer/more healthy than the average burger?...
>>75909693
Born SA, raised mostly Canadian, is US Citizen.
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>>75910079
>tfw you make english more italian again
Retard, musk is planning and making all of this and he is not american
get rekt faggot
>>75910202
Born in Sa and raised in canada, Us passport means nothing
Rockets are cool
>>75910079
>elon musk doesn't build the rockets
That's true, but he designed reusable rockets and fully autonomous infrastructure for them. He created something that NASA and Roscosmos coudn't design for over 40 years.
>>75908462
Not in general no. ULA also has a government contract, that involves direct subsidy. Not free market. Space procurement in the US also requires mostly domestic production, again not free market. Same goes for paying for development, you offer one company massive upfront investment which means other competitors can't bid at the same level in the future.
>>75910218
Claims US is greatest country in the world, claims he came to the US as quickly as possible, sets up operations within US.
>>75906746
Holy shit I didn't realize just how massive that thing is.
>>75908771
>The shuttle was primarily built to put together the space station
No. The Shuttle predates the ISS by almost 20 years. It was even before Mir.
>Meanwhile the russian space station is still in pieces in the atmosphere.
Mir was destroyed because it was beyond repair. Skylab on the other hand was destroyed because the Shuttle was late.
>>75906802
I didnt see that, what did they say?
>>75911111
checked quints
>>75910715
ULA buys old, moldy Soviet rocket engines. And ULA bases its business only (90%) on government contracts.
>>75911111
claps americanlike
>>75909693
Musk is not the engineering brains behind SpaceX. Tom Mueller on the other hand is a very smart man but none of this would be possible if it weren't for the army of aerospace engineers they are burning though.
>>75911406
Britbong sucking dicks of the amerifats?
Not surprised, enjoy being fucked by jamal you son of a whore.
Musk = not american
>>75910506
>he designed reusable rockets and fully autonomous infrastructure for them
Just because he's the boss doesn't mean he does everything himself.
> He created something that NASA and Roscosmos didn't build* for over 40 years.
FTFY. There have been shit loads of designs for RLVs, boostback isn't even a new concept. In most cases the concepts were never funded or but in some they were lucky enough to be culled in budget cuts (e.g. X-33).
>>75911578
Why can't we all just get along?
>>75911688
I think the main problem with boostback before now is guidance systems couldn't handle the trajectory or the suicide burn
Some (Finnish) Redditcuck got triggered by the second Falcon 9 landing: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4i3u9j/spacex_just_landed_their_falcon_9_rocket_on_a/d2uvq7k
>>75906176
I hope the launch a used rocket this year. It seems like they improve after each landing.
What's even better is they are launching a Dragon 2 capsule to land on Mars in 2018 and will launch a mission every 2 years afterwards. Hopefully, Congress will hand over all of that money the SLS Rocket is sucking up and give it to Spacex.
>>75912519
I want to see all three first stages safetly landing after Falcon Heavy launch. That's gonna be fucking orgasmic.
>>75912636
Yeah, that time lapse photo is going to look really sweet. Between this and the inflatable habitat on the ISS, space travel is looking pretty good right now.
