Is Elon Musk Nuts?
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Quote:Firefly Aerospace Awarded $93.3M to Deliver Suite of Payloads to the Moon in 2023
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Don't care, didn't read.
https://firefly.com/nasa-awards-firefly-aerospace-93-3m-to-deliver-sui
te-of-payloads-to-the-moon-in-2023/
Firefly Aerospace Inc. (“Firefly”), headquartered in Austin, TEXAS, is committed to providing economical and convenient access to space for small payloads
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Quote:Following the award, NASA shared its Source Selection Statement highlighting the rationale behind its decision. NASA's associate administrator human exploration and operations mission directorate (HEOMD), Ms. Kathryn Leuders evaluated the award proposals for Human Landing System (HLS). In the statement, she has highlighted the reasons behind the decision to move forward with SpaceX for the second stage of the contract, which requires the company to demonstrate crewed and uncrewed landings on the lunar South Pole.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Anyone who signs a contract with Musk is as nutty as he is.
More at https://wccftech.com/spacexs-3-billion-nasa-win-did-blue-origin-self-d
isqualify-itself/
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Direct some of your imaginary psychology degree on yourself, psycho. mkay?
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Quote:Do you realize that SpaceX is NOT another name for Elon Musk? Or are you too crazy to understand?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Direct some of your imaginary psychology degree on yourself, psycho. mkay?
SpaceX Leveraged Its Success With Crew and Cargo Missions To Ensure NASA Bid Win
NASA evaluated the second-phase proposals submitted for the Human Landing System (HLS), the agency's official name for the lunar lander, by SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics according to three criteria. These considered their design, price and management merits, and the big reveal in the selection statement is SpaceX being able to secure an 'Outstanding' rating for its management capability.
In the previous evaluation for the first-phase proposals NASA had deemed this capability as being merely 'Acceptable.' However, in a surprising turn of events that catapulted SpaceX right at the top of the Management food chain, the company received the highest rating for this factor in the selection statement approved by Ms. Leuders yesterday.
The primary factors behind NASA's rating upgrade took into account SpaceX's success with its missions to the International Space Station (ISS), its decision to allow full NASA insight into Starship development and the choice to fund the bulk of Starship development costs.
https://wccftech.com/spacexs-3-billion-nasa-win-did-blue-origin-self-d
isqualify-itself/
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Not a reply to what you quoted, so once again I have no idea why you quoted it in the first place.
And then I didn't read anything else, since your opinions hold no merit or value.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Not a reply to what you quoted, so once again I have no idea why you quoted it in the first place.
And then I didn't read anything else, since your opinions hold no merit or value.
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Stay classy.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Stay classy.
Jeezus, no kidding!
On the off chance that SECONDRATE may have posted something with actual info, I listened to some newbie droning on and on about HIS (unofficial) version of the lunar/Mars lander bids until I had to go make dinner. A large part of his drone consisted of a "review" of Space X's favorable cost structure .... like nobody has ever underbid a project before!!!
SECONDRATE: I've also reviewed bids on major expenditures before, and I've seen vendors underbid by excluding certain things from their bids. Like... er ... performance. The other thing he droned on and on about, continuing to polish a turd, is the "sustainability" of Space X's proposal, based on rocket booster's reuseability.
So I went and looked up it's historic success rate. From 2013 to 2016, SpaceX managed to successfully land 6 of 16 launches.
37 pct: Not a stellar record! Since then, they've landed 14 out of 17: Better, but still not something I would trust actual living people to fly and (especially) land.
The latest news was of another all-too-common explosion
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-starship-prototype-explosion-test-
flight/
SpaceX follows Musk's pattern of overpromising and under-delivering. Hyperloop, for example. Direct computer to brain neural link. Even electric cars for the masses that don't spontaneously burn up or crash themselves in self-driving mode.
Given infinite amounts of government money, Elon Musk has shown he can do ... something ... but SpaceX can't even stick a landing.
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Quote:The deal is that SpaceX finances the development and gets paid only after it succeeds. If SpaceX fails to deliver supplies to the moon, there are still the other two bidders: Blue Origin Federation, LLC (Blue Origin or Blue) and Dynetics, Inc. (Dynetics).
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Given infinite amounts of government money, Elon Musk has shown he can do ... something ... but SpaceX can't even stick a landing.
This is not a petrochemical plant being built where failure means the company goes out of business. Landing supplies on the moon (and eventually people) is more like NASA's hobby. Failure is definitely an option. What worries NASA is not about killing astronauts (it has already killed somewhere around two dozen of them if you count the deaths during training) but that it only has limited money to spend on this hobby. SpaceX is the lower bidder so it got the job. NASA can get a different hobby if SpaceX fails and then Blue Origin and Dynetics fail if and when it becomes their turn to try landing on the moon.
Human Landing System, Option A
Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2) National Aeronautics and Space Administration
April 16, 2021
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/option-a-source-s
election-statement-final.pdf
Quote:
Introduction In my role as the Source Selection Authority (SSA) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA or Agency) Human Landing System (HLS) Option A procurement, for the reasons set forth below, I have selected Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) for an HLS Option A contract award. This selection statement documents my independent analysis and judgment as the SSA and constitutes my final determination on this matter.
SpaceX’s $3 Billion NASA Win – Did Blue Origin Self-Disqualify Itself?
https://wccftech.com/spacexs-3-billion-nasa-win-did-blue-origin-self-d
isqualify-itself/
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Well, if SpaceX or any other firm doesn't get paid until ... what is the interim project goal, again? A successful UNmanned landing?? .... then NASA doesn't have to continuosly pour money down a rathole. Which is a good thing.
Not sure how that works for the company involved. There has to be some interim successfully-achieved goal, and then the partner company gets .... what?
Altho, based on SpaceX's achievements so far (a lot of rockets exploding) they have not yet achieved any sort of milestone. And if the contract is worded as you say, they will CONTINUE to pour their own development money down their own rathole until ...?
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