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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by dpcx on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:31PM (#27912475)
Do you have some examples of VTOL rockets from the early days? I can't find much online other than the Lunar module, and that was designed for VTOL on the moon...
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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by fnord77 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:55PM (#27912713)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

I also believe that Blue Origin had VTVL working before space-X

in the early 2000s there were one or two other scale VTVL projects that were working, I can't find info on them now.

also Masten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5b9LnzjGgU

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