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FYI the Space Shuttle flew 10 missions for the DoD, making it far more relevant to the military than the Saturn V.
by catalogia 7y ago
FYI the Space Shuttle flew 10 missions for the DoD, making it far more relevant to the military than the Saturn V.
- p_l 7y agoAfter Congress pulled critical funding for a good and actually cheap in use Shuttle, DoD poured money with caveat of requirements that killed shuttle economy long term, many of the requirements never being executed (like polar orbits from Vandenberg)