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Re:The good things in the current age in tech by fnord77 on Saturday November 13, 2021 @09:22AM (#29209907)
a VTOL rocket booster, no, but NASA has had experience with VTOL rockets. Despite their marking, SpaceX did not invent VTOL rockets.
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Re:The good things in the current age in tech by NikolaeVarius on Saturday November 13, 2021 @09:43AM (#29210049)
NASA has never launched a orbital velocity VTOL rocket
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Re:The good things in the current age in tech by fnord77 on Saturday November 13, 2021 @10:21AM (#29210341)
no, but the Delta Clipper test flights in the 90s were the first time a rocket had landed vertically on Earth.
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