alapsa

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   by alapsa 5y ago

   E3 is the best! Well deserved - congrats!!
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   by alapsa 6y ago

   Love this! Exactly!
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   by alapsa 6y ago

   Mars is awesome and I can't wait to go, but Earth is a great place to live :)
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   by alapsa 6y ago

   So exciting!
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   by alapsa 6y ago

   Definitely agree the first and second stages should be purpose-built!
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   by alapsa 6y ago

   You're exactly right, which is why we're developing our own engines. Where Starship will be the freight train, we will be the Sprinter van.
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   by alapsa 6y ago

   Thanks for correctly noting the tense - I have revised to future tense and apologize for any misgivings. Starship is amazing and we are huge fans! That is an enormous vehicle though, designed for a different purpose. It is like comparing a
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   by alapsa 6y ago

   Sorry for the confusion! There are plenty of space vehicles that have had "down-mass" capacity - Gemini, Soyuz, Apollo, Dragon, Shuttle, X-37B, etc. They are all spacecraft, although Shuttle is a close in-between. The distinction
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   Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and from space

   88 points by alapsa 6y ago|34 comments