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DC-X was a nineties rocket that flew and landed on its tail. It was not orbital though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzXcTFfV3Ls https://www.youtube.com/wat
by Gravityloss 9y ago
DC-X was a nineties rocket that flew and landed on its tail. It was not orbital though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzXcTFfV3Ls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzXcTFfV3Ls
- throwaway84742 9y agoAll right. “Orbital rockets that land upright”. Better now?
- DmenshunlAnlsis 9y agoYou kinda missed the main point. Musk's business is focused entirely on improving existing, proven, old technologies. So we’re all in agreement then, very good.
- throwaway84742 9y agoIt’s kind of like saying that a motorcycle is an “improved bicycle”.
- afterburner 9y agoIt's more like saying a self-balancing bicycle is an improved bicycle.
- Gravityloss 9y agoThere were separate technologies. Orbital rockets. Rockets with kerosene gas generator engines or balloon tanks or aluminium lithium tanks already. There were rockets that landed on their tail. These technologies were all combined into one.