re: Serious Question: Would anyone here fly on a SpaceX rocket?

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why isn't Delta 2 dominating space flight then?

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ULA retired it after 30 years of use.

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Does the moon count? There's an actual live moon lander that hitched a ride on SpaceX.

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The moon is not a planet, so no. Don't worry though, the delta 2 people (McDonnell Douglas) actually put men into lunar orbit and have 5 rockets on the moon.

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ULA has a 100% success rate, but what good is it when you launch 4 times vs Space X launching 138 times?

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Avoiding Kessler syndrome seems pretty obvious.

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How are we even arguing this?

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The og delta was the Thor pgm-17. They went from that to putting men in lunar orbit in less time than spacex from their first launch to yesterday. Getting slower progress, over a half century later, is not as impressive as the elon fanbois think.

ULA couldn’t even build its own rocket engines. They bought them from Russia

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t's easy to support SpaceX's engineering approach when it's not our money,

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It is our money, 38 billion and counting

Ignorant post of the decade.

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“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” – Elon Musk

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ULA couldn’t even build its own rocket engines. They bought them from Russia

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None of the companies amalgamated into ula ever made their own rocket engines rocketdyne built the engines for the og delta (thor) and all 3 rocket stages of the saturn v. Some of the later delta layouts used engines built by northup grumann, via buying out Hercules.

ULA engines aren't causing RUDs either, so they have that going for them

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As of March 8, 2025, SpaceX has completed 455 successful rocket launches. This figure is based on the Falcon 9 family, which has launched 458 times since 2010, with 455 full mission successes, three failures, and one partial failure, according to detailed tracking up to March 3, 2025. Including Falcon Heavy and earlier Falcon 1 missions, the total aligns with this count, though Starship test flights (like the four in 2024) are typically excluded from success tallies due to their experimental nature. The Falcon 9 Block 5, the current workhorse, has a 99.74% success rate over 390 flights. SpaceX’s reusable booster tech has driven this high success rate, with 414 of 427 landing attempts succeeding. Posts on X and web data corroborate this, citing 454–470 successes depending on exact dates and definitions, but 455 is the most consistent figure for full mission successes as of early March 2025.

Trump should rename the Gulf of America to the Gulf of Space X Wreckage

I'd fly a SpaceX rocket before a Boeing built Delta Airlines plane at this point.

Another poster whose wife beats up her phat arse pussy while screaming some African American dudes name.

I doubt anyone who posts on Tigerdoppings will ever be in a position to fly on a private jet much less a rocket to space.