One day, people will look back on this day and view it in the same light as we now consider the driving of the golden spike that completed the transcontinental railroad. This technology will open up space to settlement and humanity in the same way the iron horse opened the…
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) October 13, 2024
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024
I don’t want to hear any more of that “we don’t build cathedrals anymore” crap. We build them alright, and they *fly* pic.twitter.com/bJwhu65X1U
— Peter Hague (@peterrhague) October 14, 2024
Yes. Not only is this a huge engineering breakthrough in itself, it stands in dramatic contrast to NASA’s SLS project (think Apollo redux) which is over budget, behind sched, and unlikely to fly enough missions to achieve stated goals. Time for a rethink. https://t.co/tS0IzJJ6Ra
— Jim Meigs (@jamesbmeigs) October 14, 2024
SpaceX did this with 3/4 of Docusign’s headcount btw pic.twitter.com/C5wt1wQtfO
— Sky (@docentdemagogue) October 14, 2024
This is what will matter 1000 years from now.
— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) October 13, 2024
Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world.
This guy reignited the Space Age.
He spent his own money,… https://t.co/dmDI1regbI pic.twitter.com/jpK3veVJHw