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> (there's a couple of landing failures, but given that everyone else apart from the space shuttle has a 100% loss...) Landing the shuttle is like landing the
by gridspy 3y ago
> (there's a couple of landing failures, but given that everyone else apart from the space shuttle has a 100% loss...)
Landing the shuttle is like landing the Dragon Crew capsule. SpaceX landed the booster, where shuttles ditch theirs into the ocean.
So even shuttles have a pretty high loss rate :)
- Retric 3y agoHardly, landing on launch pad had a lower success rate and requires significant fuel so many otherwise perfectly reusable boosters were sacrificed for a higher launch payload. They got great publicity from it, but landing vertically is a major compromise.