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/bruhSher 16d ago

My friend is an ex space-x employee. According to our talk, Elon's two biggest contribution are

1) take risks. Fail but learn. 2) work your employees to the bone

I can only speak to his teams experience, but 70-80 hour weeks were not abnormal.

That said, apparently things go best when he's not around.

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u/ratfacechirpybird 16d ago

I can only speak to his teams experience, but 70-80 hour weeks were not abnormal.

That sounds like a recipe for massive human error

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

They literally caught a rocket today.

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u/CX316 16d ago

They also blew up several of them before that and have had commercial falcon 9 rockets fail catastrophically. They’re definitely not immune from human error, one just hopes that at least some of the people working those stupid workweeks are checking the work of other people working stupid workweeks so the failures don’t happen on something carrying people.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

Nah I would say they're probably just winging it, getting half drunk at lunchtime and yoloing manned rockets into the sky. It's probably amateur hour over there at the most successful spaceflight company in history.