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Why SpaceX rocket exploded

Posted by $ nickursis 9 years, 9 months ago to Technology
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An excellent example of how business, when properly set up, staffed and engaged, can do something 10X times better than government. Had this been a Nasa issue, they would still be trying to assemble their team.
SOURCE URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-spacex-rocket-exploded-2015-7

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  • Posted by BrettRocketSci 9 years, 9 months ago
    LOL. Your comment about NASA isn't really a fair or accurate statement Nick (I presume). But SpaceX is definitely an admirable organization and I'm a huge fan of Elon Musk. Rocket science is hard, and disrupting an entire high-tech high barrier to entry industry is very hard. But he is doing both! Then doing it with electric automobiles too!
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    • Posted by $ nickursis 9 years, 9 months ago
      Thank you Brett, but why would it be unfair to NASA? I based that on their responses to both shuttle accidents, which grounded them for years. These guys jumped on board, gathered data and analyzed and developed a working model in a month or 6 weeks. That would be because they know every delay means burning money, which has never been a real obstacle to government projects or agencies. As long as it is not their money... SpaceX seems to be well organized, and yet they are there to do a job and make money at the same time, which is my point,safety and rockets blowing up is costly in people and materials, so the business model is much better than the government model at doing it. If I am being unfair to NASA please explain it so I can understand why. I studied the Challenger incident as part of LEAN certification and that was my main source of the comment.
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      • Posted by BrettRocketSci 9 years, 9 months ago
        Well perhaps you are right. How long did it actually take NASA to assemble the teams for Challenger and Columbia? Depends if we go by the initial internal team or the big gray beard panels...so you may actually be correct but then again the shuttle accidents were not comparable to the SpaceX unmanned failure either, right?
        We are coming from the same philosophical position, and I agree NASA is inherently slower than private industry. My reaction was to what seemed like hyperbole. I could investigate the history for comparison but I'd rather not make this a real debate. Many more important things in the Gulch. :-)
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        • Posted by $ nickursis 9 years, 9 months ago
          Thats ok Brett, I think we agree government is not a capable as private business in this type of situation, if only because the private business is actually cost conscious. I think a lot of the delay though was due more to making sure they didn't do anything , or say anything, that could be taken out of context, when you are beholding to the political establishment for your funding. Therein is the problem.
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