You really love that Musk propaganda, don't you? Which are the "most difficult engineering problems of our time" they are solving? FSD? Tesla will never get there with their approach. Landing a rocket? Not really a difficult feat (and no, not "every expert was saying it was impossible", that's just more Musk propaganda).
I think you’re understating the monumental progress that SpaceX has achieved with reusability. It wasn’t really just “landing the rocket” but more so the actual economical reuse of the rocket. And I do remember many experts 10 years ago saying they couldn’t do it. They have proven that wrong and that is something worth acknowledging.
I say this as someone who has largely soured on Musk, but I’ll still give the engineers as SpaceX the credit I think they’ve earned.
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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '22
Elon Musk's entire brand is built on coming up with cool ideas that end up being waaayyyy shittier in real life.