• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Nah, RUDs happen, and everyone knows it. It even happens to NASA—in fact, if I recall correctly, the only major spaceflight operator it hasn’t happened to is ULA. SpaceX even publicly released a video supercut of all their explosions on some anniversary or another. The risk of this is built in to the entire industry; this won’t change anything, and probably shouldn’t.

    Billionaire vanity spaceflight shouldn’t be a thing, but this isn’t what should change that.