/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10764305
Just let Space Bat do it.

>>8794594
>Can Elon Musk really make space travel great again?

Interestingly, I think so.

CAVEAT: I do not like him for reasons having nothing to do with his space efforts, per se.

That out of the way, I see two possibilities:

1) He accomplishes great things and Makes Space Great Again.

2) He doesn't accomplish great things, but the fear that he might spurs everybody else into trying harder and THAT Makes Space Great Again. Think the USSR faking up things like multi-passenger capsules and rendezvous in orbit, keeping the heat on the US effort to win the "race."

>No matter who wins, we win.

>>8788870
With hindsight, that seems to me to be one of several good ways they might have gone.

But I think they hoped/believed that "We choose to go to Mars in this decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard" was out there, but the sad truth is nobody with power to make shit happen in Washington really wanted to go anywhere that was hard. They were happy to make a speech to SAY they had the dream, when speaking to voters in Florida or around Houston, say, but not to back it up.

A shame, but there we are.

Good news is, at the moment it looks like we have several governments and several firms fighting to accomplish things in spaces again.

Best of luck to every fucking one of them, as far as I'm concerned, what a time to be alive.