It’s been said that there’s no new ideas in rocketry. Even the most cutting edge stuff was theorized and probably even tested in some rudimentary way by some cr

It’s been said that there’s no new ideas in rocketry. Even the most cutting edge stuff was theorized and probably even tested in some rudimentary way by some crazy aerospace engineers in the 50s. They just watched it explode and gave up because rocketry was as much art as science back then - literally throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what explodes (and what explodes a little longer and more usefully).