<story><title>Arianespace CEO: Europe won&apos;t have reusable rockets for another decade</title><url>https://www.space.com/europe-no-reusable-rocket-until-2030s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluescrn</author><text>The US won&amp;#x27;t have the tech in 10 years either if current levels of political tribalism continue.&lt;p&gt;Seems that a lot of people want to see Elon destroyed over Twitter&amp;#x2F;politics. See the incredibly negative reaction to the Starship launch attempt compared to the much more positive reaction to previous test flights that ended with a boom.&lt;p&gt;And if they destroy our current best hope for the future of space exploration in the process of going after Elon, they don&amp;#x27;t care, it&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;a win for the environment&amp;#x27;, or acceptable collateral damage to take down an &amp;#x27;evil multibillionaire&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;(Maybe Elon should even consider stepping away from SpaceX? - but then projects as ambitious&amp;#x2F;risky as Starship would likely be dropped)</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>And likely neither will Russia, China, India, Japan or anyone other than the US - with maybe the exception of New Zealand.&lt;p&gt;The writing has been on the wall for where rockets were going for ten years, policy makers absolutely have failed, but let&amp;#x27;s not pretend it&amp;#x27;s only Europe who have got it wrong.&lt;p&gt;Also, the negativity these sort of headlines bring to &amp;quot;tech&amp;quot; in Europe as a whole are also unhelpful. Europe is absolutely at the cutting edge of technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panick21_</author><text>&amp;gt; See the incredibly negative reaction to the Starship launch attempt compared to the much more positive reaction to previous test flights that ended with a boom.&lt;p&gt;You are rewriting history. The same fucking thing happens everytime a rocket explodes. The same reaction happened with the earlier test flights again.&lt;p&gt;Some dumb idiots in the media and twitter right bullshit. A few dumb politicans try to cash in and do a bunch of saber rattling in congress.&lt;p&gt;Same game over and over, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter and doesn&amp;#x27;t change anything.&lt;p&gt;SpaceX or Musk will not be destroyed by this nonsense.</text></comment>
<story><title>Arianespace CEO: Europe won&apos;t have reusable rockets for another decade</title><url>https://www.space.com/europe-no-reusable-rocket-until-2030s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluescrn</author><text>The US won&amp;#x27;t have the tech in 10 years either if current levels of political tribalism continue.&lt;p&gt;Seems that a lot of people want to see Elon destroyed over Twitter&amp;#x2F;politics. See the incredibly negative reaction to the Starship launch attempt compared to the much more positive reaction to previous test flights that ended with a boom.&lt;p&gt;And if they destroy our current best hope for the future of space exploration in the process of going after Elon, they don&amp;#x27;t care, it&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;a win for the environment&amp;#x27;, or acceptable collateral damage to take down an &amp;#x27;evil multibillionaire&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;(Maybe Elon should even consider stepping away from SpaceX? - but then projects as ambitious&amp;#x2F;risky as Starship would likely be dropped)</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>And likely neither will Russia, China, India, Japan or anyone other than the US - with maybe the exception of New Zealand.&lt;p&gt;The writing has been on the wall for where rockets were going for ten years, policy makers absolutely have failed, but let&amp;#x27;s not pretend it&amp;#x27;s only Europe who have got it wrong.&lt;p&gt;Also, the negativity these sort of headlines bring to &amp;quot;tech&amp;quot; in Europe as a whole are also unhelpful. Europe is absolutely at the cutting edge of technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usefulcat</author><text>Elon is a great salesman, but I think SpaceX is far enough along that it would be fine without him. Maybe better than fine, given how reckless he can be.</text></comment>