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spacex was laughed out of the room by industry and press when they announced trying to land the first stage. then they did it. reusable rockets were uniformly
by chasd00 6y ago
spacex was laughed out of the room by industry and press when they announced trying to land the first stage. then they did it.
reusable rockets were uniformly assumed to be a fool's errand.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoThis is a complete fantasy, people were working on reusable vehicles for decades. SpaceShuttle was already partially reusable and operational, just like falcon 9 is, just was not economical. SpaceX doesn't have a fully reusable vehicle yet, and there was a program to develop a fully reusable replacement for Space Shuttle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VentureStar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VentureStar If Elon was laughed out of somewhere, thats to do with Elon's credibility at the time.