Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission

Re:Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic M... by JumpCrisscross on Monday December 12, 2022 @05:28AM (#33953089)

> SpaceX suddenly going out of business (as in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy) seems rather unlikely. The same is true of ULA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin

SpaceX is not critical to national security, and it—many times—came close to bankruptcy in its adolescence of the early 2010s. Aerospace, in the past, saw massive recessions where companies larger than SpaceX went poof. This will almost certainly happen again, once we’re done tooling up for China.

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Re:Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic M... by areoform on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:31PM (#33958273)

It didn't use to be. But as soon as they started launching national security payloads on the Falcon Heavy and the Delta IV Heavy retired, they became the only heavy-lift launch vehicle on the market capable of taking up national security payloads. Until Vulcan/Centaur enters the game.

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Re:Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic M... by skissane on Monday December 12, 2022 @07:15PM (#33962569)

> Aerospace, in the past, saw massive recessions where companies larger than SpaceX went poof

Which specific firms are you talking about going bankrupt here? Were those bankruptcies chapter 11 or chapter 7?

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