Elon Musk just peed higher than Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, by a hundred miles or so.
I do like Elon. He just gets things done.. Sometimes it starts a bit flaky and his timescales are wildly optimistic, but eventually he gets the bugs ironed out and makes stuff work.
Only a couple of months after Bezos was crowing that his sub-orbital New Shepard rocket launched a private flight further into space than Richard Branson's space effort, Elon comes along with Inspiration 4: a 3-day, fully orbital flight with four private individuals on board and pisses higher than Bezos and all over his paltry spacefaring efforts.
The inspiration 4 crew can rightly claim to be astronauts. No ambiguity, they are flying higher than the International Space Station and for days, not minutes. Both Bezos and Branson give you minutes at an altitude that it can be argued if it is actually space at all.
Good on Elon for showing who's really top dog in private space flight, with no crowing, no publicity-grabbing as a passenger. Nicely done sir, nicely done...
Can't wait to see the Super-Heavy booster and Starship launch. That whole project should be spectacular not just launching, but during recovery.
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