[autophil]

I would like to die on Mars. Oh brother.

How come "shut up and just do it" applies to everyone but Elon? Why does he only have to talk about doing something to be hailed a hero?

Start backing some of this stuff up with action Elon.

[blhack]

>start backing this up with action

Not sure if sarcastic...

Elon Musk, as in: the guy who's company just ran a private reapply mission to /the international space station/.

[damoncali]

I hate to break it to you, but everything NASA builds is built and operated by private companies. SpaceX is an incremental improvement on something that has been done for decades. That is a far cry from Musk's fantastic claims.

[dasmoth]

Commercially built: mostly true

Commercially operated: much less so (with exceptions, e.g. shuttle processing was kind-of commercial)

Commercially designed: nope.

The commercial resupply contracts may not quite meet everyone's idea of what "commercial" means (and there certainly was/is a lot of NASA scrutiny of the spacecraft -- rather less of the launch vehicle), but it's still a substantially different model from anything NASA has tried on a major project in the last half century.

[damoncali]

This is just not true. NASA outsources pretty much everything to private companies. I designed NASA hardware myself while employed by a private company.

[jlgreco]

How do you propose he try harder?