stainless steel is heavy as fuck, how on earth can they justify that over better more lightweight materials, weight is an incredibly important thing on rockets
Its curious to see how much more modest in statement the China missions happen to be. And yet, in practice, they are vastly more ambitious than what Elon offers. They're laying the groundwork for a real interplanetary expedition while Musk just spins new grifts on top of old ones.
What do you meeeaaan it's gonna be several thousand years before I can become a prima undine in Neo-Venezia, Mr Elongated Muskrat says that human colonization of Mars is five years away
While musk’s antics are pure stupidity, something that has at least come out of it is its influence in the push for more reusable rockets and influencing chinas long march 9 plans. All credit of course goes to the SpaceX engineers and not musk.