Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station
by mrtnmcc on Sunday March 03, 2019 @05:09PM
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If you want to get back from Mars you need a reusable rocket.
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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station
by kbutler on Sunday March 03, 2019 @05:26PM
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By that definition, the Apollo program had reusable rockets. (Able to climb back out of a gravity well, leave orbit of a large mass, and return to earth).
Escape velocity of Mars is less than half Earth's or about double the moon's.