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Falcon 9 reaches a flight rate 30 times higher than shuttle at 1/100th the cost (arstechnica.com)

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[–] davoloid@mastodon.me.uk 3 points 4 months ago

@troyunrau @llamacoffee It was cool, but that was it's downfall. Apollo took every bit of technical resource, which might have otherwise gone into a more natural growth of activity in space. (Which is what we're seeing now).
So when someone showed a cool space plane, regardless of the costs, practicality and viability, that pattern of political expediency was already set.