Musk’s biographer tweeted the pages from his book discussing how in late 2020 Musk suggested, then insisted against considerable opposition from his engineers, that Superheavy be caught with chopsticks instead of landing on legs like Falcon 9.
(If this sounds familiar, also according to the book, Musk is the person who suggested and, against considerable opposition from his engineers, insisted on Starship switching to stainless steel instead of carbon fiber.
Hint: Musk was right and his engineers were wrong. Both times.)
Drtikol42 on
Not surprising to those that follow SpaceX for some time. Musk was unhappy about the legs from the first test small dinky ones they used were small and dinky big ones would certainly weigh a fuckton. Too bad we probably won´t see the early variant where Starship bellyflops into giant bouncy castle 😀
Your_Kindly_Despot on
Having known Walter for years (family connection) I can assure you while others may be susceptible to Musk’s “charming rhetoric,” Walter is not in that crowd. So if he wrote it, that’s how it happened.
DifferentCable1792 on
What will happen if for some reason the booster needs to do an emergency landing elsewhere?
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[Isp](/r/Space/comments/1g2wat8/stub/lrtbosq “Last usage”)|Specific impulse (as explained by [Scott Manley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnisTeYLLgs) on YouTube)|
| |Internet Service Provider|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1g2wat8/stub/lrt7xau “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
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Musk’s biographer tweeted the pages from his book discussing how in late 2020 Musk suggested, then insisted against considerable opposition from his engineers, that Superheavy be caught with chopsticks instead of landing on legs like Falcon 9.
(If this sounds familiar, also according to the book, Musk is the person who suggested and, against considerable opposition from his engineers, insisted on Starship switching to stainless steel instead of carbon fiber.
Hint: Musk was right and his engineers were wrong. Both times.)
Not surprising to those that follow SpaceX for some time. Musk was unhappy about the legs from the first test small dinky ones they used were small and dinky big ones would certainly weigh a fuckton. Too bad we probably won´t see the early variant where Starship bellyflops into giant bouncy castle 😀
Having known Walter for years (family connection) I can assure you while others may be susceptible to Musk’s “charming rhetoric,” Walter is not in that crowd. So if he wrote it, that’s how it happened.
What will happen if for some reason the booster needs to do an emergency landing elsewhere?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[Isp](/r/Space/comments/1g2wat8/stub/lrtbosq “Last usage”)|Specific impulse (as explained by [Scott Manley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnisTeYLLgs) on YouTube)|
| |Internet Service Provider|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1g2wat8/stub/lrt7xau “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Raptor](/r/Space/comments/1g2wat8/stub/lrt7xau “Last usage”)|[Methane-fueled rocket engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)) under development by SpaceX|
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