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bboygravity01/17/20255 repliesview on HN

So what does a rocket company need to do to be imrpessive in your eyes?


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hooli_gan01/17/2025

A Mars cargo mission, according to the timeline spacex set for themselves. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F2HFqsVkiZc/YT9bPpXSKDI/AAAAAAAAG...

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tsimionescu01/17/2025

Maybe match some achievements from 60 years ago, like having a rocket that can put someone on the moon, back when the largest supercomputer in the space program had less FLOPS than my watch.

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pelagicAustral01/17/2025

Go to the moon, land a rover, wander about, come back with everyone alive... should be easy right?, I mean, it's already been done... RIGHT????

rco878601/17/2025

We'll have to get to parity with what we were doing 50-60 years ago.

The reusability is awesome, of course. More of that!

And also, still gotta get the basics right. Oxygen/fuel leaks aren't a great look (spoken as a not rocket scientist).

Over2Chars01/17/2025

It needs to give him a job :-)