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Re:Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘re... by rayiner on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:38PM (#17299599)
Recovering a booster for reuse, something the Space Shuttle program did literally hundreds of times? That gave you shivers? Really?
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Re:Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘re... by perilunar on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:28PM (#17300001)
Shuttle booster 'reuse' was a misnomer: they were pretty much completely rebuilt each time, and cost more to rebuild than build from scratch. See: https://www.quora.com/Space-Shuttle-How-much-money-was-saved...
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Re:Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘re... by gaius on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:37AM (#17300527)
Watch the video of them landing themselves - it was truly unprecedented
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Re:Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘re... by dingaling on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @02:11AM (#17300669)
Pioneered by the MDC DC-X in the 1990s, with considerably less computing power available.

Space-X have done great work in making landed-recovery practical and reliable but they're again building on top of work originally done by the DoD-contractor model.

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