SpaceX better know what they're doing.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

[lagomorph777]

1. They do.

Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon have excellent reliability records.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Collossal waste of fuel and emissions

[Saboburns]

7. So is posting one's thoughts and opinions on an internet message boards.

Imagine all the wastes we have caused.

[shudder]

[abqtommy]

3. I don't see any good coming out of this. Even NASA, with all their science and

planning delivered up some horrendous failures.

[PuppyBismark]

4. St. Jude charity event

The mission is called inspiration4.

This is an effort to raise $200,000,000 for St. Jude’s hospitals. There is a great video documentary on Netflix that describes the effort and the participants. Very inspiring and interesting. This is a science advancement and much more that the joy ride by the billionaires last month.

I support the effort and will make a donation to the hospital.

We can watch the launch at spacex.com

There are no government funds involved.

[Saboburns]

5. NASA knows that they do

Its why NASA Astronauts fly SPACEX to the ISS.

All crewed spaceflight is risky. All.

This booster and this spacecraft had to pass NASA regs to be man-rated. Flacon 9 and Crew Dragon are indeed BASA man-rated.

Godspeed Inspiration 4!

[USALiberal]

6. They do, remember NASA uses them!!!! Nt

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They have been sending our astronauts up to the ISS

and are contracted to NASA for that just like Grumman (now Northrup-Grumman) and Lockheed-Martin contracted with NASA in the '60s and '70s.

We need to get away from using Russian rockets to get our people up to ISS.