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Not to rain too much on your harping, but the DC-X program did vertical landing 30 years ago.
by pyrale 2y ago
Not to rain too much on your harping, but the DC-X program did vertical landing 30 years ago.
- dotancohen 2y agoYes, and that was all the experimental program did. No humans on board, no payloads, no orbit, not even suborbital as they stayed close to the ground. The Falcon 9 puts humans into orbit then turns around and lands not far from the launch tower. It's then brought in for maintenance and a few weeks later launching again - some of them have done 20 flights.
- pyrale 2y agoYou’re comparing an experimental program that lasted 6 years with a company founded 22 years ago. How many payload flights did space-x do 6 years into its existence?
- dotancohen 2y agoNo, you made that comparison two posts up. I just replied to you ))
- eecc 2y agoNice, what happened of it?
- pyrale 2y agoIt happened at about the time budgetary winter happened for the us space budget, so there was no follow-up on the demonstrator.