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SpaceX didn't start in a vacuum, or in the 40s.
by ant6n 9y ago
SpaceX didn't start in a vacuum, or in the 40s.
- tajen 9y agoAnd don’t forget in 1969 when they landed on the moon, they had to code all the timestamps in negative.
- wongarsu 9y agoNeither did Ariane 5, Atlas V, Delta IV or Soyuz-FG. Of course SpaceX profits from the state of the art, but not developing the Xth iteration over a proven and battle-tested design with decades of flight-data is a disadvantage for SpaceX.
- greglindahl 9y agoSpaceX benefits from being able to inspect landed boosters. This comparison is apples-to-oranges.