Comment Re: âoefail fastâ development (Score 1) 61
Was NASA not capable of launching payloads into space?
Nope. That's why they use contractors like SpaceX, Boeing, etc.
Why don't we just work on fixing the planet we have rather than go to Mars?
They are working on it, and that's one of the reasons they need a cheap way to lift payloads into orbit. Spending less on transportation means more money for science.
Do we really want Musk to get to the moon first?
Humans visited the Moon about 2 years before Elon Musk was born. It's very possible our return will be made possible thanks to SpaceX's hardware, but it will not be a SpaceX mission.