To be fair, SpaceX isn’t selling amusement park ride tickets on suborbital flights to the highest bidders like those competitors are. They aren’t really comparable.
That particular mission did not have a return module. The car is still up there somewhere. To anticipate the next comment yes I know it would still be an improvement.
To be fair, SpaceX isn’t selling amusement park ride tickets on suborbital flights to the highest bidders like those competitors are. They aren’t really comparable.
They put a Tesla in orbit. If he trusted them and wasn’t spineless he absolutely would
He might believe he’s burned too many bridges with apaceX engineers and launch techs. If he was on board, one of them might take an opportunity…
That was marketing. The alternative would have been a generic mass simulator, basically just a large block of metal.
The car gets headlines and people remember it. You obviously did.
That’s my point? Him going up himself would be marketing
That particular mission did not have a return module. The car is still up there somewhere. To anticipate the next comment yes I know it would still be an improvement.