PSA: As someone who made it to the first Starship launch on crutches a month after femur surgery (and still getting an interview with Maye and Kimbal) and who went to all three following launches, including interviewing Elon Musk on the day of the launch on Flight 4, I find it troubling and saddening how many people are attacking me for not seeing Starship in person today. I’m getting bullied and harassed about this decision. For what it’s worth, I completely expected the launch to be next month like the FAA said it would be. We didn’t know until a few days ago that this was the plan, and even then, SpaceX didn’t get the launch license until the day before. So if none of these things did happen, it wouldn’t have made sense to fly home much earlier on a trip that’s been planned since April with my parents who are somewhat elderly and may never be able to travel like this again. I quit my job to do this, I put everything on the line to cover SpaceX. And I even covered it today from my hotel room in Paris. I really hope people understand how things actually played out and why I, like many creators, were unable to be there in person.
Ellie in Space
PSA: As someone who made it to the first Starship launch on crutches a month after femur surgery (and still getting an interview with Maye and Kimbal) and who went to all three following launches, including interviewing Elon Musk on the day of the launch on Flight 4, I find it troubling and saddening how many people are attacking me for not seeing Starship in person today.
I’m getting bullied and harassed about this decision.
For what it’s worth, I completely expected the launch to be next month like the FAA said it would be. We didn’t know until a few days ago that this was the plan, and even then, SpaceX didn’t get the launch license until the day before.
So if none of these things did happen, it wouldn’t have made sense to fly home much earlier on a trip that’s been planned since April with my parents who are somewhat elderly and may never be able to travel like this again.
I quit my job to do this, I put everything on the line to cover SpaceX. And I even covered it today from my hotel room in Paris.
I really hope people understand how things actually played out and why I, like many creators, were unable to be there in person.
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