Spacex Booster Catch: $3 BILLION BUSTED!!
Source: YouTube · Thunderf00t · published Oct 19, 2024 · 33:53
The video critiques SpaceX’s Starship program, arguing that $3 billion in taxpayer funds have been wasted on a project that has failed to deliver a functional human landing system or reach orbit, despite repeated promises of rapid success. The core claim is that recovering boosters is an easy, low-cost feat, while the second stage—critical for lunar or Mars missions—has not achieved basic reusability or survival through re-entry.
• SpaceX spent $3 billion on the human landing system, but has only reached the Indian Ocean, far from lunar orbit 0:36-0:47.
• The booster recovery is technically simple and already achieved with modern tech, yet the second stage has failed to survive re-entry or be reused 1:08-1:40.
• A 2024 launch timeline was promised, but the project is still years behind schedule, with only 2–3% of the original contract completed 2:06-2:17.
• The video contrasts SpaceX’s current progress with the Apollo 11 success in 1969, which achieved lunar landing in just 18 months using 1960s technology, highlighting a lack of realistic progress 28:43-29:22.
• The speaker argues that the project’s promises—such as crewed Mars flights by 2024 or 2025—are delusional, given that Starship has not even achieved orbital flight 29:33-30:28.
SpaceX’s claims of rapid reusability and lunar missions are seen as exaggerated, with the actual progress on Starship falling far short of its public promises. The video concludes that the project has failed to deliver on its core mission and represents a significant waste of taxpayer money.
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- 0:36-0:47 The original $3 billion contract and its failure to deliver a
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everyone is gushing over this now I know what you're thinking there is no way no way that you can possibly dunk on this it's engineering amazing well yeah it looks impressive I wonder how much the US taxpayer paid for this and the answer is they paid $3 billion so far the thing is musk wasn't meant to be delivering a single booster catch for $3 billion he was meant to be delivering the human Landing system for $3 billion a vehicle to take people from lunar orbit to the surface and return them back safely to lunar orbit and when they were getting their $3 billion off the US taxpayer this is what they submitted for their plan and SpaceX themselves thought that catching the booster was such a trivially easy task that it wasn't even worthy of its own point on the Gant chart which as we'll see …