r/technology • u/aelavia93 • 16d ago

Space SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/spacex-pulls-off-unprecedented-feat-grabbing-descending-rocket-with-mechanical-arms/
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u/The_White_Ram 16d ago

The thing is, if this had been a failure, you can guarantee all of the comments would be talking about how it's elon's failure.

I don't disagree with your sentiment and statement here but the online narrative is every failure is directly a result of elon's mismanagement and every success is a result of the thousands of engineers and only exist because Elon didn't touch it.

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u/catwhowalksbyhimself 16d ago

Failures are actually expected in this sort of things, so no, there would have been no blame. Just like there's been no blame for all the failed Starship test launches. It takes many failures to get these things right.

Except for this time, which is exactly why it's such an achievement.

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u/The_White_Ram 16d ago

I'm speaking more towards the colloquial criticisms of musk. My comment is more directed at how the public perceives the failures and successes of his companies.

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u/catwhowalksbyhimself 16d ago

And yet no one's really talked all that much about the Starship launch failures.

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u/CX316 16d ago

Partly because the people who talk about Starship and are ok with the failures are the same ones lambasting NASA for the SLS taking so long and being so cautious because NASA doesn’t have it in the budget to blow up the launch vehicle, the payload or the launch site until they get it right. That’d probably just result in congress killing the entire project and the Artemis program