• Question: Do you think SpaceX will be successful?

    Asked by John the Baptist to Eimear, James, Lána, Willi on 26 Feb 2018.
    • Photo: Eimear Tuohy

      Eimear Tuohy answered on 26 Feb 2018:

      Yes. I think the technological advances are very exciting and the fact that the SpaceX launch are getting everybody interested in space again!

    • Photo: William O'Connor

      William O'Connor answered on 26 Feb 2018:

      Yes, I think SpaceX will be successful.
      In fact, in some ways it already is fairly successful, in that it can get spacecraft into space cheaper than NASA. I think that in the future, it will be paid by NASA and others to launch their satellites for them.
      But we’ll see!

    • Photo: James Geary

      James Geary answered on 26 Feb 2018:

      SpaceX has already been very successful in developing and industrialising a heavy lift launcher in a fraction of the time of it’s competition.

      Successfully landing boosters in Sync was a huge achievement and will significantly reduce the costs related to launching.

      How agency designed and built launchers stay in competition is to be seen!

    • Photo: Lána Salmon

      Lána Salmon answered on 26 Feb 2018:

      I think SpaceX has the correct formula – they continually try new things and although they sometimes don’t work 100%, they’re still fascinating the public and progressing. The technological advances that they’re pushing are of course really cool, but I like that they use launches like the Falcon Heavy to send a car into space and do quirky, cool things. I think that’s what captures peoples imagination.

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