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minus-squareAngrySquirrel@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·15 days agoThe space shuttle was a mistake, but that is a laughably disingenuous route to claim that NASA couldn’t be doing these things for cheaper than private companies. Saturn V rocket launches were cheaper than space shuttle launches.
minus-squareuntakenusername@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 days agoyeah but the falcon 9 and heavy are the cheapest ever compared to everything I hate musk, don’t misunderstand me, but spaceX has done some incredible things with rocket reusability
The space shuttle was a mistake, but that is a laughably disingenuous route to claim that NASA couldn’t be doing these things for cheaper than private companies. Saturn V rocket launches were cheaper than space shuttle launches.
yeah but the falcon 9 and heavy are the cheapest ever compared to everything
I hate musk, don’t misunderstand me, but spaceX has done some incredible things with rocket reusability