Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight

Re:Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight by 7e on Thursday April 22, 2021 @09:25PM (#26910085)

So far NASA has been doing plenty on Mars, and Musk has done zero. He does love to talk and blow things up.

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Re:Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight by BigMajestic on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:19AM (#26913079)

This is not a rivalry, this is collaboration. NASA has different goals and SpaceX has different goals, but where they can, they're working together. Without NASA's contracts SpaceX wouldn't be where it's right now.

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Re:Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight by dylan604 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:04PM (#26910300)

NASA can't remember the difference between feet and meters, and they are notorious for delay delay delay. They are also famous for blowing up some shit too. Sadly, they have even lost humans on multiple occassions. They are not perfect.

Musk has a rocket that can be reused multiple times, and can deliver to the ISS. NASA can't do any of that.

NASA has been around for 70 years, yet still no people on Mars. Just cute little robots that they hired others to build for them. Short Musk all you want, but he's the only one that I think will actually attempt doing things on mars than taking pictures and soil samples.

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