/sci/ - Science & Math

I heared SpaceX flew a booster for the 17th time, but the important thing is how much refurbishment did they do? Were those really all the same Merlins? Or did they do more thna just clean it

Either way I'm so excited every day about SpaceX. As a 6 year old I remember visiting a space museum and just assuming that humans must routinely survey the Moon and probably conducted the fist manned missions to mars at least 20 to 25 years ago with serious plans for colonization. I was livid finding out the truth. Then a decade ago I found SpaceX when they were testing the F9R, and after seieng Elon speak once, I knew he was the real deal. That was a fun time when people started making fun of SpaceX for putting legs on their boosters, then a few years later seeing them slam it into the barge over and over but getting close to sucess each time. Even in my early teens I was skeptical enough to expect falcon 9 to never fly the same booster more than 10 times when SpaceX was promising 100, but here we are.