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No? No-one before had even thought of trying to landing a rocket under it's own power before

Every time a SpaceX or Blue Origin rocket blows up they have to do the exact same procedures NASA would do as mandated by the FAA and other government agencies. Also when was the last major failure of a Falcon 9? Or Rocket Labs Electron? It's not a simple as "Hurr-durr corpos cutting costs made...

And if the SLS blew up people would be saying that NASA should give up having their own rockets.

Given how much of the US political system is taken up by boomers it's not surprising Way too much leadpaint huffing and lead petrol fumes

That's putting all of your eggs into one basket Plus they have their own large rocket however their budget is always being used as a political football

IIRC the Beirut explosion was bigger

We have lots and lots of coal still with quite a lot of it being some of the highest grade coal in the world. We just stopped mining it.

Plus because of the moon's graviational lopsidedness most things don't really like to stay in orbit for long as they keep getting dragged into lower and lower orbits.

Seems the projected 2024 landing date is becoming more and more a pipe dream

Can't wait for all the Elon fanboys to demand all Artemis funding be given to Starship.

Just a hairline crack in the foam, nothing to worry about

I made the exact same joke before the JWST was launched, it's an obvious sarcastic comment about Irony.

Bets on it exploding?

No it wouldn't, the tech in Star Wars allows ships to hover over a point on the ground and still be in low orbital altitudes. Meaning they can go up and down without needing to do any normal orbital manouvers