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"will be launching" Interestingly, Musk was supposed to launch manned vehicles into space years ago, but he's not been able to because... they keep exploding.
by scarmig 7y ago
"will be launching"
Interestingly, Musk was supposed to launch manned vehicles into space years ago, but he's not been able to because... they keep exploding. And he's spent billions of dollars to get to that point, not 2 million.
I'm of the mind that the Space Shuttle was a misallocation of resources, but hindsight is 20/20, and there's no particular reason to think that, given the technology and constraints present at the time, anyone could have done much better than the engineers at NASA.
- Kye 7y agoPeople forget it came about in an era of trying to out-spend the Soviet Union's military to make it collapse. The shuttle was built the way it was with the expectation of military launches. When those didn't materialize in sufficient quantity, they were left with an expensive ship that didn't serve any of the remaining uses well.