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> The Falcon Heavy won't surpass NASA's Saturn V moon rocket, still all-time king of the launch circuit. Yeah. The Saturn V could put twice as much mass into
by fnord77 9y ago
> The Falcon Heavy won't surpass NASA's Saturn V moon rocket, still all-time king of the launch circuit.
Yeah. The Saturn V could put twice as much mass into LEO than the specs for the FH and about 3x as much into Lunar orbit.
All 50 years ago.
Progress, folks.
- greenhouse_gas 9y agoSpaceX never claimed that it's advancing rocket science. NASA recovered rockets and landed on the moon years ago. What they didn't do was lower the cost to orbit. _That_ is SpaceX's thing