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Re:Toray carbon fiber to carry SpaceX's Mars ambitions by planteen on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @07:35PM (#12301460)
Yeah for cargo I agree. I was thinking more along the lines for human rating.

Propulsive landing helps for some failure modes but not all. Like I don't think it would have helped the CRS-7 failure had that been manned.

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Re:Toray carbon fiber to carry SpaceX's Mars ambitions by hLHEDuYtSh on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @08:34PM (#12301701)
It actually would have helped on CRS-7 -- That capsule was fine until it hit the water.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/07/saving-spaceship-dra...

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