For perspective, you can go back through all my writing, millions and millions of words back to 2013 when I wrote an article from Florida about the essential end of the Space Shuttle program and that Obama’s vision for NASA was to partner with Russian cosmonauts for any future space missions. I was very outraged at the policy, and if I never liked Obama for anything, it was his anti-growth attitude to suppress American exceptionalism as it often presents itself in space travel, that I hated the most. We were going backward under Obama and Biden, and the only growth we have seen in over two decades came from the four years we had from Trump the first time. So, I have been very excited about watching the civilian infrastructure for space develop, and anywhere I can help it, I certainly do. So if I’m more excited these days and very enthusiastic for every day, as many people pointed out to me at a Jags get-together ahead of the inauguration of Trump, I’m sure eventually they’ll understand. I don’t think people realize what a miracle the week of January 13th was in 2025. Yes, SpaceX did it again; they landed their Superheavy booster rocket back on the pad it launched from after carrying another Starship into space. They lost the ship due to a pressure problem that couldn’t gas out fast enough on a new second-generation Starship, and it ruptured the hull, causing the whole thing to break up in the atmosphere. That was unfortunate but very correctable. The real trick was repeating the landing of the booster rocket to show that the first time wasn’t an accident. Watching that rocket capture chopsticks system work now repeatably was a fantastic thing to witness, and it takes us a long way from my complaints about when Obama ended the Space Shuttle program over a decade ago.
But that wasn’t all; just a few hours before SpaceX launched, Blue Origin put their own rocket into space, but this one was carrying a lunar lander from Firefly, a Texas-based company, that was returning to the moon. Another personal problem I have is with NASA and governments around the world. I don’t care what anybody found when we went to the moon the first time. There was no excuse not to have a Hilton there by now so I could vacation on the moon with my family. This raw, primitive embrace of backward thinking that came to us from both political parties has infuriated me to no end. When people ask me why I have had my war against public education, it starts with this lack of preparation as a culture to advance people into space. We should have been doing this since the original moon missions, and as I was growing up, it looked good. But the Department of Education under Jimmy Carter and the socialist politics that held our society down through labor unions and liberal politics stopped that advancement and I have never been good with it. If we don’t have a culture pushing for adventures into space, we are deliberately trying to suppress the ambitions of the human race in a very unhealthy way. So, for me, watching all this space activity just a few days before President Trump’s return to the White House was fantastic and deserved as a subject of massive optimism. For a culture to produce two space launches like Blue Origin and SpaceX produced, it would have taken NASA a decade to do one of them. Let alone two significant ones. We are dealing with good times, finally.
The amount of capacity and bandwidth is the real challenge, and that’s what is changing, which I’ll be pointing out often because I am pretty sure people don’t know what to think of these displays of monumental ambition. It takes thousands of manhours and intelligence calculations to produce one rocket into space, especially when discussing complicated payloads. But here we have a culture that did it twice in the same week. Additionally, there are several Falcon rockets that are taking constant payload into space, whether people or satellites for the Starlink system, we have come a long way from the Obama administration sending Americans into space through partnerships with Russia. As soon as SpaceX realized that they had lost their Starship, they were already planning to pull another out of their manufacturing facility, where several others were waiting, and they were planning another launch next month. SpaceX expects to launch at least 20 more times in 2025 to develop Starship further. What they learned from this recent one, even though it burned up in the atmosphere, was extremely valuable compared to the traditional hindrances of a cost-plus company. The way SpaceX is attacking the problem is the definition of how these things will be done in the future, and it embodies a whole new view of manufacturing that is escaping the clutches of global socialists like Obama, who were deliberately trying to hold back humanity. It’s one of those situations in which small-minded people have been trying to destroy society to rule over the ashes. And these new manufacturing methods being developed at SpaceX are a rebellion against that sentiment. And it’s precisely what space needs for humans to colonize the stars. Other companies are now moving in that same direction regarding the “rate of resolution.”
Cost-plus companies have been hijacked by all kinds of horrible forces that have held back the aerospace industry since the first moon landing. When parasitic characters realized they could stall contracts and make money off ignorant governments for more congressional money to be thrown at the trolls to build something, trouble was clearly on the horizon. That’s why space had to move into civilian care because there was looting politics in government control that held us back with people like Obama. A setback like Starship had at SpaceX this week would have stopped advancement at a typical cost-plus company for a decade in the past. Instead, Elon Musk said immediately that the plan was to roll out another Starship and get ready for a second try next month. The only thing that will hold them back is the speed of government, which will increase dramatically once Trump is back in office. There is a lot to be very excited about, and I am. It’s not just about going to space that is exciting; it is about watching the human race crawl out from under a very oppressive political climate and an education system that has sought to cripple us purposely. Not to inspire us to grow. And due to all that, we see that the human race is doing big things again, and the American culture, which has produced the world’s wealthiest people, is putting that wealth to good use in adventure and enterprise. As good as this past week was, and it was, I see under the incoming Trump administration launches like that happening every single day. I don’t think people realize yet how important all this is and what it will do for us. But I can see it and am very excited about what’s coming. In many ways, it’s a dream come true.
Rich Hoffman
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