SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night

Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by onion2k on Monday August 02, 2021 @05:01PM (#28042587)

The single most important job humanity has is to get our eggs into more than one basket.

Perhaps that's true, but space launches are important enough that going "slowly"[1] is a good idea. One catastrophic accident with the destruction of a spacecraft leaving a large amount of orbital debris would make space launches much, much harder until we clean up. Rushing to space could slow us down a lot.

[1] The space race has only been going for 70 years, and less than 25 years commercially. The idea that anything is happening "too slowly" is quite baffling really.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by lapetitejort on Monday August 02, 2021 @05:07PM (#28042640)

Humans went ~11,900 years without flight, then ~60 years later we landed on the moon.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by sebzim4500 on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:55PM (#28043718)

From Musk's perspective, any timeline which does not establish a permanent presence on Mars within his lifetime is too slow. It looked like that would be impossible before the Starship program, now it merely looks unlikely.

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