> It wasn't false. CNN report that the governor said the hospitals didn't receive the ventilators which is 100% true
I really don't know the exact incident you speak of. What I remember is endless accusation that Musk was delivering the wrong things that would be useless and that it was all a media stunt.
This was not the case, they did deliver the right thing that helped people. That at the end is what matters to me more then whatever bullshit is happening on twitter and the endless 'he said', 'she said', 'they reported what he said' and so on.
> They are pretty darn capable and reliable.
I didn't say they are not reliable or capable. I said they were not 'equally accomplished' and they aren't. Why are you moving the goal post?
Literally nobody in the space industry believes ULA has achieved as much as SpaceX.
ULA is government created company that got a monopoly over US launches. During the time they existed they managed to get a grant total of 0% of the global commercial launch market.
> They just don't get much press - or money for the matter.
Now you are just joking. ULA got absolutely absurd amounts of money for a decade+. The prices they charged the government up every single year until SpaceX finally sued their way into competition was absolutely absurd. In addition to that they got almost 1 billion per year to be launch ready.
ULA basically farmed the government, and when SpaceX showed up magically their prices dropped to less then half. Crazy how that happens.
ULA is a child company of Boeing and Lockeed and both of those have absurd amounts of government contract. The money Boeing gets for SLS alone blows everything SpaceX gets out of the water.
> There are many great feats of space exploration that get gloss over while every time SpaceX does something it's seen as major news even if it's one of their just test rockets blowing up.
No they don't. Again, maybe if you follow mainstream media, but the space community is well aware of ULA and what other agencies are doing.
> frankly to an annoying level; and I'm not the only one to think that give people have created r/EnoughMuskSpam.
You mean the cesspool of people who publish and believe every nonsense rumor on twitter. Those are the people you want to associate with? Have you read that subreddit? People there are bordering on insane often with the nonsense they are willing believe as long as it is against Musk.
Even things that Musk is only associated with threw 3 different intermediaries are apprently him pulling the strings behind the back. Everything any costumer of SpaceX does or even says they do these people will claim 'Musk is doing X'.
I'm not saying there are not major criticism you can make of him, but the people that sub are delusional for the most part.
> The Japanese sent a probe to an asteroid, landed on it, collected a sample and sent it back to earth - all autonomously. That's a remarkable feat of engineering IMHO. 2 days on space related social media at most.
It was a great mission to be sure. But the nature of such missions is that they deliver a few media pictures for a few moments and then its a space craft that flies threw dark space for a few years.
What exactly do you want people do keep talking about? The scientific results are not available for a long time. There is very little content published about the engineering specially in english.
And while its a cool mission, these are just individual costume science missions. They are very, very expensive and have huge teams behind them. We have been doing missions like that for 50 yeras. All that is fine, but its not gone fundamentally change space as we know it. Its evolutionary improvements over past missions at best.
> SpaceX launch something. People: "OMG it's so beautiful!!!" + Endless spam of the videos.
The reason people get exited about Starship Test launches is because if its successful, its gone fundamentally change space industry forever.
These science missions you seem to love could do 100x more science because you can make a far larger mission for a lower price.
Just transportation alone used to be like 50% of some of these missions. And they suffer from major constraints in weight and size. If you can build them bigger and not require gravity assist, the price for these missions can drop a huge amount.