Musk's company is behind schedule in developing its Starship rocket. NASA's interim leader, meanwhile, wants to put astronauts on the moon while Trump is in office.

I love this for him.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    10 days ago

    Signs a contract, fails to deliver on said contract. Throws an embarrassing tantrum in front of the whole world when the client starts looking somewhere else.

    It’s surprising how SpaceX and Tesla have managed to do so well despite this child at the helm. Whoever is in charge of keeping him distracted and away from the company’s operations deserves a raise.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      10 days ago

      It’s surprising how SpaceX have managed to do so well despite this child at the helm. Whoever is in charge of keeping him distracted and away from the company’s operations deserves a raise.

      For Spacex, her name is Gwynne Shotwell. She is president and COO of SpaceX. She’s incredibly smart and savvy in business. She’s pragmatic and levelheaded. She’s everything Elon isn’t. I don’t know what bargain she has with him that Elon largely lets her run the company, but if you’re looking for why SpaceX is successful as it is, its her.

      Tesla had first-mover-advantage in EVs, and the entrenched interests of petroleum companies and their pals in the US automotive sector making subpar cars for decades allowing Tesla to establish early with an alternative. Tesla, on the other hand, doesn’t have a Shotwell at the helm, and you can see what disastrous business decisions have happened over there.

    • blackris@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Nonono! Space Nazis are a fun trope for movies. I don’t want that to become reallity.

      On the other hand; if he goes on jos own space ship, there is a good chance, it explodes. 🙃

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      29·
      10 days ago

      Don’t forget that he cut off communication for Ukraine when they were fighting russia too. He’s a traitor POS, why should NASA trust him for anything?

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      10 days ago

      It’s almost certainly not that. Supplier diversity has been identified as a strategic priority for NASA since forever. The failures to achieve this are more prominent that than the successes.

  • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    10 days ago

    Shouldn’t have been doing business with the nazi apartheid cunt in the first fucking place, but all we can do is move forward at this point.

  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 days ago

    Musk’s rocket company has fallen behind schedule with its testing and development of Starship, and the vehicle suffered a string of explosive failures earlier this year.

    stfu, Elon. Get better or stfu. It should be unsurprising that your client would prefer to not have two aspects of the mission hampered by your idiocy.

    And he says NASA are the dumb ones, oml…

    • 50MYT@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      The best part is Elon tried to say the competition sniped one of the explosions.

      From the roof.

      It was later proven wrong after it was revealed they fuelled the rockets too fast, and it reinforced the incorrect stance space X had for fueling after loading passengers

  • D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    If he put as much effort into this company as he does goose stepping, and sieg heiling on a stage, then the landers would already be on the moon.