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Re:SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform spa... by kashkhan on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:32PM (#30380197)
shuttle before columbia disaster was absorbing more than half ($8B) the NASA budget($16B) and doing 4-6 flights a year
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Re:SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform spa... by bumby on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:43PM (#30380316)
I'm not going to argue that the shuttle wasn't a boondoggle. The same reasons it was are the same reasons it's not a great comparison. Very different mission scope/requirements, having to conform to multiple masters (DoD and NASA) regarding the design, etc. The shuttle was required to do things F9 is not.
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