Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 Max, 787

Re:Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 M... by kube-system on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:08PM (#26417004)

The space race of the 60s had plenty of unmanned tests before they started manning them. Humans were not the first Earth creatures in space. If Musk wanted to go back further than maybe the 70s or 80s, his issues would have been:

1. the science hadn't been fully developed ahead of time

2. he would have had a harder time getting other people on board with his idea -- he would have been labelled a complete crackpot

3. governments may have not have been so willing to allow him to do it

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Re:Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 M... by sudosysgen on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:38PM (#26418620)

The issue is really actually landing rockets vertically without humans. NASA had the concept of reusable rockets that landed vertically, but didn't action it because landing without a human didn't seem feasible.

So pretty much, not before computers were good enough to autonomously land, so at best the 2000s.

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