| Perhaps the key to success truely is "over promise under deliver" He's picked a target of Mars! It's going to be _decades_ of failure until it happens. The current status: successful steps of key component test required for sustainable future price. Building the hype train for a 20 year goal is hard I don't know many companies that can sell "it takes a year". Humanity has already sent an object to Mars. The next goal is "human on Mars", and golly if we can we'll bring them back! The secondary goal "cheaply" At my current weight i cost 1,700,000 minimum to get into space. Getting that down to 170,000 means I could actually afford it (and written into my marriage is the understanding that if I ever get the chance to go Mars I'm willing to divorce to make that happen) Or: It's not the ship. It's the mission. The ship is just an visible process towards that goal. >people are assuming that this is the vehicle itself >Yet, they've explicitly shaped it like the final version, and hyped it. It is the vehicle, it's just not finished. There's work to be done. Let's get to it |