SpaceX just hit a hole in one and batted 1.000

[WarGamer]

Let's not let the silly mistake of letting hating Musk interfere with love of Space Exploration and the fine people of SpaceX... 50% non-white BTW...

Unlike the last few missions, a perfect run with all missions accomplished.

Link to tweet

[Raven123]

1. Boy is that video ripe for a crude joke

[Blues Heron]

2. Yeah, no. Fuck Elon and his dipshit rockets.

[WarGamer]

4. They're not Elons rockets.

[Blues Heron]

7. Sure thing bro

[beaglelover]

3. Yeah, I'll give them kudos when they do this same thing 100 times successfully.

[BannonsLiver]

18. You'll probably be waiting quite a while in that case.

[dpibel]

5. LOL

[beaglelover]

6. I like rockets that don't explode when they touchdown.

[WarGamer]

9. detonated on purpose

1) Prevents the intact vehicle from becoming a navigation hazard

2) Disposing of fuel

3) Collect data on breakup dynamics

[SocialDemocrat61]

34. When they shove one up

Musk's butt and detonate it, then I'll celebrate it.

[RazorbackExpat]

23. I remember when NASA was able to bring manned space capsules

to safe landings in the ocean, some 50+ years ago.

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. It blowed up real good.

I guess that's what it was supposed to do, since everybody seemed happy about it.

[WarGamer]

10. see #9... quite intentional

[EdmondDantes_]

11. I'm not sure how this is batting 1,000% given the repeated failures

You don't get to exclude the failures, I'm sorry, rapid unscheduled dissembly, from the batting average.

[Kingofalldems]

12. Should we all genuflect before Musk?

Not fooled one bit.

[WarGamer]

14. Why think about Musk at all?

He didn't build the rocket, didn't engineer it... he didn't do shit.

Just enjoy the achievement...

[BannonsLiver]

17. Apparently we're supposed to ignore what he did to the country and get our pom poms out for his dumb rockets.

No thanks. Standards and all.

[maxrandb]

25. Exactly! It's like saying; "Hitler did some good things for the economy"

I guess Democracy is only worth whatever it costs to get your rocks off, or in this case, rockets off.

I'll cheer for Space X's accomplishments, as soon as their shareholders remove their Nazi leader.

You can't be just a little fascist.

In for a penny. In for a pound.

[RT Atlanta]

13. the kim-jong-un/ill noise is such a big turnoff for me

and I say that as a huge spaceflight fan - its like you have a bunch of screeching politburo members from N. Korea shouting like their lives depend on it while watching the videos.

if spacex would dial-back that aspect, the impressive technical accomplishment would stand more on its own.

kudos to all involved for a succesful test flight.

[BannonsLiver]

19. Space X is its own cult.

[RainCaster]

15. I can't cheer a firm that suceeds by destroying

... the government agencies that are investigating it. The FAA used to be a competent agency that kept our skies safe. Now it's an amateur hour as airlines around the country have collisions and infrastructure failures daily.

[BannonsLiver]

16. It's not a mistake.

[DoBW]

20. Heil SpaceX

Greenblatt was the same guy who gave Elmo Musk a FULL PASS for giving a Nazi Salute on stage at the Inauguration. He was totally fine with it. So, yeah, he can take a seat. bsky.app/profile/patr...

— (@toddhumphreys.bsky.social) 2025-07-16T17:19:54.667Z

[edhopper]

21. I don't applaud

making Nazis rich with tax dollars.

[ShadesOfBlue]

22. Bleep that.

I prefer NASA because at least there wasn’t a monster trying to destroy democracy running the operation.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t a single black person among the 50% non-whites you crow about. Elon was formed by Apartheid.

[BannonsLiver]

36. Exactly. Space X is un American.

Like Musk, Trump, MAGA and all the rest. As long as Elmo Musk is associated with it in any capacity it will have a permanent stink.

[Polybius]

24. What they have accomplished in the past 10-15 years is remarkable

There's no denying that.

[JT45242]

26. If you have ever seen an astronaut speak, especially early ones., you would not think so highly of spacex

As a science teacher for twenty years, I heard many astronauts speak at NSTA, stem conferences, statewide initiatives, etc . They all said some very similar things.
First., the major difference between NASA and the Soviet space program was that NASA worked tirelessly to make sure every mission brought home everyone alive.
Second. They knew that they must be diligent with the funding because any failure might put an end to science based control of NASA and space exploration.
Third. This all has to be done with transparency for Congress and the American people.

Now compare that to the profit driven failure infested world of spacex.

How far over budget with how many blown up prototypes are there now? Ive lost count.

Where is the congressional oversight of this company run by ketamine addicted racist child. Contracts to political donors and appointees.

There may be some good people at SpaceX...but this is a failure. A failure born of Raygun destroying NASA essentially by making it part of the military

[Polybius]

37. They fail in order to succeed, which is how SpaceX engineers have learned (and continue to learn)

Failure my ass. SpaceX hasn't cost a single life. There's a reason the Biden Administration contracted with them. Remember, SpaceX successfully retrieved the astronauts on the ISS earlier this year.

[chelsea0011]

27. I guess a controlled explosion

is better in the Indian Ocean than one in Gulf of Mexico? Enjoy the debris.

[Tommy Carcetti]

28. Wouldn't it be more like batting .500?

There have been 10 Starship test launches, 5 success and 5 failures.

I mean, .500 would be phenomenal...for a baseball player.

[SocialDemocrat61]

29. So should we thank Hitler

for helping the development of the V2 rocket too?
A Nazi is a Nazi and they or their endeavors should never be supported or congratulated. That's just being a minion.

[Wounded Bear]

31. Actually, the chief engineer on the V2 was a key contributer to NASA...

Werner von Braun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun[1] (US: /ˈvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn/ VUR-nər von BROWN;[4] German: [ˈvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊn]; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) was a German–American aerospace engineer[1] and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany, and later a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States.[5] For his life´s work von Braun has been described by others as the "father of space travel",[6] the "father of rocket science",[7] or the "father of the American lunar program".[8] He advocated a human mission to Mars.

As a young man, von Braun worked in Nazi Germany's rocket development program. He helped design and co-developed the V-2 rocket at Peenemünde Army Research Center during World War II. The V-2 became the first artificial object to travel into space on 20 June 1944. Following the war, he was secretly moved to the United States, along with about 1,600 other German scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip.[9] He worked for the United States Army on an intermediate-range ballistic missile program, and he developed the rockets that launched the United States' first space satellite Explorer 1 in 1958. He worked with Walt Disney on a series of films, which popularized the idea of human space travel in the US and beyond from 1955 to 1957.[10]

[SocialDemocrat61]

33. Who funded von Braun?

Hitler did. They were both Nazis.

[edhopper]

30. Batting averageis a poor metaphor

Batting average is based on success over a large number of attempts. It is not based on one at bat. Space X's average is quite low.

[Autumn]

32. NASA does space flight better. Fuck Musk and his shit fucking team.

[Red Mountain]

35. This is from Reddit:

Objectively recounting the mission:

On launch the stack had rotation that had to be addressed with a pretty significant correction but wasn't preemptively terminated and it didn't explode.

An engine during boost back failed on the booster but it wasn't preemptively terminated and it didn't explode.

Almost every test launch of the simulated satellites made contact with the bay door but the mechanism didn't jam, all of them cleared starship, and the doors were able to close.

Starship suffered an unplanned explosive event that did sizeable damage to the skirt and an aileron that caused an undoubtedly larger amount of damage and stress testing than was planned by removing tiles or replacing them with alternative materials.



Credit where credit is due: Rocket went up, rocket came back down. Even if they gave up on 2nd stage (Starship) reuse it would be a hell of a heavy lift rocket. Rapid reuse? I still think it's unlikely. It will depend on how the tiles hold up. They are the weakest link.

[Unrepentant Fenian]

38. What???

After his last two or three missions exploded and turned into a fireworks show, you need to move your decimal point. Three places to the right!