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When SpaceX was new almost everyone said the same about what was "realistic". I don't think it's about time to scale up so much as about finding and executing o
by abecedarius 3y ago
When SpaceX was new almost everyone said the same about what was "realistic". I don't think it's about time to scale up so much as about finding and executing on better approaches.
I agree it would have had to be done differently and not just by spending more (if that's how you take "muster the will").
- abecedarius 3y agoAdded: John Walker (RIP) wrote in 1993 about such an alternate strategy and against this conventional wisdom that space launch is just inherently astronomically expensive per kg to orbit: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/rocketaday.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/rocketaday.html That wisdom was still conventional 1-2 decades later.