Casey Handmer
@CJHandmer · Aug 22, 2026
Now @SciGuySpace reports NASA is in a tizzy because after running the most successful launcher ever for more than a decade and nearing 1000 launches, @SpaceX is planning to retire Falcon in favor of Starship in a few years.
Sorry, NASA, you've had 15 years to burn down the
Casey Handmer@CJHandmer· Aug 21, 2026NASA has been building robotic lunar rover prototypes for decades. Why is the Moon not crawling with them? Because NASA insists on running a Survivor beauty pageant for everything and the lunar rovers were always the bridesmaid never the bride.
We haven't had a shortage of
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Once Starship is flying reliably several times per week, it makes sense to shift super scarce SpaceX engineering and production resources to Starship to get launch rate to several times per day, which means winding down Falcon
10:10 PM · August 22, 2026 · 20.8K views
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