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He is talking about Falcon 1, not CCDev. There was no close call at CCDev, nor any grant money for Falcon 1.
by Manabu-eo 2y ago
He is talking about Falcon 1, not CCDev. There was no close call at CCDev, nor any grant money for Falcon 1.
- necovek 2y agoThanks for the correction/clarification. Still, I would be surprised if SpaceX did not greatly benefit from knowledge gained in Falcon 1 development when building their Falcon 9 rocket and then optimizing it for reusability — they started development of Falcon 9 while Falcon 1 was still operating.