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[saulrh]

I'm still impressed that SpaceX, with <20 years of experience, is even in the same ballpark as Boeing and its 101 years.

[mcguire → saulrh]

Check out how many of the Space X team have experience leading government space contractors. (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/space-exploration-te...). They're not going in raw.

[jve → saulrh]

As Gwynne Shotwell (President of SpaceX) in some interview said something along the lines: "We are standing on the shoulders of giants"

Basically they didn't start from beginning, but just continues from the point where knowledge has been accumulated over those years.