Mass production isn't an innovation? What happened to that Springfield Rifle assembly line I learned about when I was a child?

One of the employees with a very positive opinion is retired.

> The Space industry is way more than just Rockets.

Yep.

Who's the #1 satellite manufacturer by mass?

It's great that you like your employer, but if someone disagrees with you, it's not very polite to tell them that they aren't paying attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Cargo

It's been a thing since the 1960s. In addition to SpaceX, ... Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Sierra Space, and Virgin Orbit have been given money by USTRANSCOM to study it.

For 3 launches, yes. Cygnus and Dragon Cargo are still redundant systems, during this short period of time.

> ULA but they have shown little willingness to innovate from a tried and true method.

ACES and on-orbit refueling is an awesome concept, too bad NASA has shown very little interest in it.

Even better, Northrop acquired Orbital, which was the first New Space launcher company (with the air-launched Pegasus). Northrop also operates Antares/Cygnus, which is proof that NASA's Commercial Resupply program actually worked: on budget, and having redundancy.

Bezos has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He probably knows enough to do what he's doing with Blue Origin -- he hired Rob Meyerson to lead Blue Origin in 2003, 3 years after founding it.

Still going down the usual list of talking points, I see.

Edit: spelling

> Curiously, if you average what SpaceX charges in government + commercial launches, you get a number that’s a bit higher than the rest of it’s [sic] competitors.

This is actually known to be false.

Here you go, an attack on her from later in this discussion:

> And yet Shotwell sounds completely unaware of the basics of space in every public appearance.

I see you're working your way down the usual list of talking points.

No need to bring up that former guy, but no, this advisory committee did exist in the previous administration, and John Cena and Ted Nugent were not members.

I've seen her speak at Stanford -- a recruiting talk, basically -- and she sounded totally in command of the necessary aerospace engineering and space science to me.

Virgin Galactic is the other one.

I stopped reading when you made a sexist insult against the Vice President.

Expelling methane into the atmosphere is illegal precisely because it's such a horrible greenhouse gas.

That's why it's flared, if it can't be used.

There are a bunch of candidates who are roughly equally qualified for the job.

"insane cackling" is a sexist "joke", in case you've been asleep for the past 50 years.

It's the previous, similar problem that ended up with a terrible solution.

One reason astronomers are annoyed by JWST's name is that other than JWST, space telescopes are named after relevant scientists like Hubble, Chandrasekhar, and Nancy Grace Roman.

"We" have been thinking about that for decades, and it's way, way expensive.

When I look out my window at night, I can only see a few stars thanks to light pollution. Now the same thing is happening to uninhabited areas on Earth.

ISRO has partnered with Japan and Europe as well.

And Russia. Which they're paying money to.

You throw a huge number of insults in this sub, so it's hard to believe you think it's neutral.

Edit: He blocked me, but I wonder if he's also the guy who reported me to Reddit as being suicidal. Guess I'll never know.