3 ms·

Huh. Touche.

• pfdietz 4y ago
  And it was known as early as the 1960s that expendable launch vehicles could be reduced in cost by as much as a factor of 10 by adopting a minimum cost rather than maximum performance design methodology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster http://www.quarkweb.com/foyle/MinimumCostDesign.pdf http://www.quarkweb.com/foyle/MinimumCostDesign.pdf Easterbrook again was pointing this out, in the August 17, 1987 Newsweek.