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Not to mention the mountain of prior art to work off of... It's way harder to do it the first time.
by onlyrealcuzzo 1y ago
Not to mention the mountain of prior art to work off of...
It's way harder to do it the first time.
- philipallstar 1y agoThere's absolutely loads being done for the first time here. Not least of which: running this r&d off commercial contracts instead of directly off taxpayer money.
- fastball 1y agoThe mountain of prior art being... one rocket that had very different requirements?
- sho_hn 1y agoApollo also invented, funded and productized a lot of modern embedded computing and computer manufacturing, to keep in our lane here. Obviously SpaceX has access to a very different tech environment that yes, Apollo helped push forward. Manufacturing the Apollo Guidance Computer (which wasn't in the rocket per-se, but was wired up to it and could fly the rocket in certain scenarios) alone consumed around 40% of the US' entire IC production capacity at the time.
- FredPret 1y agoSpaceX IS doing lots of important things for the first time.