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While shamefully chucking RS-25s into the ocean

• 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
  And Starship blew up 39 raptor engines, and will probably blow up another 39 tomorrow.
  • DarmokJalad1701 3y ago
    At least blowing up the raptor engines isn't the planned operational design. Even if they blow up 39 tomorrow, an operational Starship/Superheavy will not do that. That's the whole point. SLS is going to be tossing four RS-25 engines per launch (with *each* engine costing the same as ~2-3 entire Falcon 9 launches) into the ocean as the planned course of action. That is by design - and not some accident during a test flight.
  • throwaway4aday 3y ago
    Rocketry advances one explosion at a time.
• nordsieck 3y ago
  People keep saying that. I don't really understand why. Sure, RS-25s were designed to be reusable. But it's not like they were being used for anything; they were just hanging out in a warehouse since the Shuttle days. If NASA was going to put them in a museum or something it would have already happened. At least this way, they get used for what they were designed for.