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The Falcon 9 Achieves the Shuttle’s Dreams
- blalond 4y agoIn 2022, with 61 flights, SpaceX Falcon 9 achieved NASA’s early 1970s projections that the Shuttle would fly every 6.4 days. The Shuttle flights-per-year record was 11 in 1985-1986.
- abudabi123 4y agoNASA's early 1980s plan was to land people on Mar
- blalond 4y agoIn 1980 the Soviet Union managed to launch variants of its R-7 workhorse rocket 64 times in one calendar year. 61 of those launches were successful. [1] For same launch vehicle type, the previous record was held by Soyuz-U, which had 47 launches (45 successful) in 1979. [2] [1] https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-ties-42-year-old-record-last-launch-2022/ https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-ties-42-year-old-record-las... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Launch_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Launch_history