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In response to "So are these SpaceX Starships just laying around and made from K'NEX? I dont understand how they can keep failing, what the heck is the cost of these? -- nm" by Jovian

With regards to failure: Same as it was with early Falcon 1s and the failed landing attempts of the early Falcon 9s

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) Mar 14 '24, 10:22

So if one tosses out time / material / cost, the development cycle is kind of like code.

Run it, see errors, correct errors and iterate, repeat until you've successfully landed 200+ Falcon 9's

As far as cost, that's the benefit of a private company.

...uh, and while not quite K'NEX, there's a whole assembly line of the Raptor engines and there's a number of Starships and First Stages in various stage of assembly in Texas

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When there was an entire country (well, a majority) united behind the effort and the appearances of a race, NASA did the same rapid test / fail cycle -- (link) - JD Mar 14, 10:29 [youtube] 1
- Thanks for explaining. I understand the rockets failing and failing to finally get it right... but its the Starship part that confuses me -- (edited) - Jovian Mar 14, 10:32

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With regards to failure: Same as it was with early Falcon 1s and the failed landing attempts of the early Falcon 9s

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