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Considering the Blue Origin tried to (and failed) prevent SpaceX from using this technique, you may be right but for different reasons.

If you have an Android device, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.calebjones.spacelaunchnow is a nice app for browsing upcoming launches. It also gives you updates on them via push notifications

Close, actually. Being a privately-held company, it's hard to say for sure which side of the profit line SpaceX sits on but it is fairly certain that they are close to that line.

Here is the first result I found on Google: https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/11/11/will-spacex-earn-a-profit-in-2017.aspx

Well, here's the automatically generated Youtube transcript. It has its problems, but it may be easier to search for interesting facts than the entire 45 minute video.

The thing about Starship's design and testing process is that SpaceX doesn't need everything working all at once - they can incrementally test and add new capabilities as they learn. Virtually everything they hope to do has been done in one form or another already, though admittedly not all with one vehicle: propellant transfer in orbit, reentry, landing the first stage. That doesn't mean that they won't all be difficult problems to tackle, but that's why SpaceX is building lots of inexpensive test articles.

So far as the lack of an abort system, those aren't panaceas either - they introduce multiple new failure modes, and of the times they've actually been used, their track record is poor. For a great discussion on safety, I recommend reading the book Safe Is Not an Option. Ultimately, I think extensive, real-world flight experience will do more for true safety than having an abort system. We should also consider that safety is not a binary.

If you look back long enough, you could call it a reversion to the pre-1960s model where wealthy individuals (and not only them) funded much of what was going on anent space. This is a book worth reading.

An order of magnitude is a defined termed. Assuming we are dealing with base-10 orders of magnitude (which is generally how the term is interpreted, though technically you can use what ever base/reference order you like), then each order of magnitude is essentially "moving the decimal over 1". So, 10 is one order of magnitude higher than 1, and it is also an OoM higher than 9. Let's use your example. We start with a value of $525, which in a base-10 system has an order of magnitude of 2. If we multiply that by 8, we get $4200 which has an OoM of 3. If we multiply by 10, we get $5250 which also has an OoM of 3. If we start with a value of $100 (OoM of 2), then 8x gives us $800 (still OoM of 2) but 10x gives us $1000 (OoM of 3).

So, as you can see, it isn't about "how many times more is one number over the other" it is about the number of significant digits after/before the decimal. It's all just powers of 10 (in proper scientific notation), the values themselves don't mater.

Omni Calculator has a very approachable breakdown of OoM on their site, that I think is a lot clearer/straght-forward than other pages (like Wikipedia)

Maybe not the actual spaceship, since those so far have been named after astronauts, but I bet a conference room will be named Canterbury.

From http://www.geekwire.com/2016/jeff-bezos-lifts-curtain-blue-origin-rocket-factory-vision-space/

>Engineers still work in open offices, and gather in conference rooms named after sci-fi spaceships (including Serenity and Icarus).

Don't know why people think like this.

Elon doesn't view his competitors as enemies with the same Ray Kroc attitude as Jeff does.

He might say that they're the wrong choice; that they're overpriced, a bad value add, or overly cautious. But he'll never say they should be eradicated or that he'd take pleasure in watching them fail.

Making a spacecraft “feline-rated” is much more rigorous than human-rated. It’s simply impractical for a rocket maker to qualify.

See CatStronauts Series.

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Yes, that was one of the deadly affects of the fire. A lot hard lessons learned from the Apollo 1 tragedy.

There is a really good book about the history of Apollo that covers the Apollo 1 fire from the perspective of the Lead Engineer from North American Aviation/Rockwell, Harrison Storm.

Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon https://www.amazon.com/dp/039332513X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_TZ8GK7PSWEH1TGCVBWK9

For political reasons, Storm & Rockwell took the majority of the blame for the Apollo 1 fire (Even though it was really a NASA management failure. a.k.a. “Go Fever”) but in return the got the Space Shuttle contract.

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