> Saturn V was launched 13 times in total. Starship is already 75% of the way there

Apollo 1 - lost on the launch pad, crew killed. very bad Apollo 13 - major malfunction causing loss of mission but crew saved. very not bad

Starship - 10 launches 5 failures. No crew ever so that pressure is also not comparable.

Are we really claiming Starship has achieved 75% of the results of Apollo? That's absolutely ludicrous

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fluoridation 5 days ago | parent [-]

Starship is 75% of the way to 13 launches. That's just mathematically correct.

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dylan604 5 days ago | parent [-]

And is absolutely useless. Apollo 9-17 went to the moon with human occupants. All but one put men on the surface of the moon. They all returned to Earth with zero fatally exploding ships.

Not one of these triumphant 75% achievement in launch numbers would have had a surviving human. Apollo had 0 practice runs. Starship is nothing but practice runs. To equate the number of launches to something so drastically different is just an exercise in futility that I can only assume you're trolling

	▲	anonymars 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Starship is already 75% of the way there and hasn't orbited once Read it as "Starship is already 75% of the way to that cost and hasn't orbited once" (you seem to be in agreement)
	▲	fluoridation 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Dude, when did I say they were triumphant? SpaceX is burning taxpayer money sending empty coke cans on ballistic trajectories for no good reason. My whole point with this line of inquiry has been to point out what a useless waste of resources Starship has been so far.