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True, but they're doing it on a far lower budget than the Space Shuttle. A single RS-9 engine -- one of five used in the SLS -- costs more than an entire Falco
by jiggawatts 1y ago
True, but they're doing it on a far lower budget than the Space Shuttle.
A single RS-9 engine -- one of five used in the SLS -- costs more than an entire Falcon 9 launch with payload, taxes, and profit!
Starship is similarly frugal. Its construction is simpler, it is made of cheaper materials, it uses a cheaper fuel, etc, etc...
“Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
- poslathian 1y agoI love this quote. mankind having been to space already, the rockets are the sideshow to the way they designed and grew an org that delivered them along with a great business, starting from an amount of capital loads of nobodies have had but failed to do anything interesting with.