Comments by "Grak70" (@Grak70) on "" video.

However this launch goes, you can bet the next Angry Astronaut video will be insufferable.
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@steveaustin2686 starship is still at the tin-can stage and none of its components have EVER flown to space. I acknowledge the flaws and shortcomings of Artemis, but its basic hardware design is complete and its components already have flight proving. The engines themselves have actually flown. Both projects are critical and need to succeed, but I think SpaceX is further behind than it would like its investors and fans to believe. Traded companies need to project optimism to maintain PE and funding and SpaceX has done a great job at that. It has also made huge, ambitious, and impressive strides and taken risks NASA never could. But still: tin can.
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Lol took you guys 3 tries XD
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@RogerM88 yeah. I want SpaceX to succeed too, but you can clearly tell they’ve transitioned from the “blow shit up until something works” to the “the next test needs to work” philosophy. They’re still iterating quickly on component design, but this close to something they think will finally work as intended, they can’t risk blowing up too many more Starship prototypes. And in lockstep with this change, their testing pace has slowed dramatically. But you wouldn’t know it to hear the same fanboys that point and laugh at Vulcan Centaur. Every little setback or delay proves their point, but when booster 7 had a methane explosion on the pad it’s “a learning opportunity”. They just can’t hear themselves…
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@SRFriso94 I don’t think anyone disagrees with that assessment. But at the same time, no commercial provider was going to have a lunar capable, crew-rated vehicle ready even on this delayed timeline. Delta-4 is completely booked to end of life and was never human rated. Starship hasn’t even crossed the Karman Line yet and is probably still years from human rating trials assuming it works, and…that’s it. There’s nobody else.
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@RogerM88 totally agree. I’m in the same camp.
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@steveaustin2686 ah, I gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. I agree.
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@DUKE_of_RAMBLE you are correct 100%. It’s an unavoidable consequence of politics and the intelligence of your average senator and voter that behind the scenes bureaucracy and pork never looks as bad as video of an expensive rocket blowing up. It has to work the first time.
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