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This milestone is more about developing the technology in the suits and ship. The spacewalk itself really just involved testing out the range of motion of the suit, but the full test involved a lot more changes and tests in the Dragon.

And the shape is better for driver visibility and pedestrian safety

an electric Renegade priced under $25,000

That's much more interesting than the $70k+ suburban grocery hauler.

Companies like this make me wish I had the gall to sell snake oil to venture capitalists.

What a classic recipe. It's a YC company with a McKinsey CEO.

I dunno. A lot of people messed up. Across the board. A successful landing doesn't change any of the previous failures that led to NASA pulling the plug.

Flight software, test planning, program management, root cause analysis, systems engineering / requirements management, material sourcing, simulations, etc.

The thruster firing show is fun

Good riddance!

Welp. Hopefully Blue keeps the pedal to the metal and still launches something this year. I feel bad for the Rocket Lab team.

Not if the probes can't slow down on the other end! Their delta V is important, too.

But if their initial engineering and infrastructure investments were into ~~welding~~ 3d printing that turned out to be a dead end...

Radiation shmadiation

Hopefully someone FOIAs the test results. The Starliner saga has left NASA comms with a black eye, so I'm worried that they put a big "use-as-is" stamp on this issue and are plowing forward with additional risk.

Oof. They went from being a dubious tech startup to... BO2 without the infinite money drip?

I'm glad they're still working on reuse, but I'm not sure what differentiates them anymore vs SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Blue Origin, and Stoke. All 5 of them are working on (at least) 1st stage reuse. And they all make their own engines.

Relativity was very well funded based on what turned out to be snake oil. There are a lot of armchair engineers fist pumping about being right about that. Now that they're indistinguishable from other companies, why would that investment continue? There are still too many companies working on launch.