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Re:Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dys... by macspoofing on Saturday April 09, 2022 @10:12PM (#30973888)
>just because "reusable rockets" got laughed at by the existing space industry …

Were they laughed at? After all, the Space Shuttle was around for decades. It turned out that reusable rockets were not cost effective nor particularly safe. Space X has yet to show reusability is viable.

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Re:Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dys... by ceejayoz on Saturday April 09, 2022 @10:26PM (#30973956)
> Space X has yet to show reusability is viable.

This is a bizarre assertion. It's clearly viable; no other American launcher can currently carry crew, they gobbled up 60% of the global commercial launch market by 2017, and they're undercutting everyone on price very successfully.

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Re:Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dys... by grandrew on Saturday April 09, 2022 @11:20PM (#30974210)
I'd say what this all proves is that a free market and private sector is much better at those things than a communist'y government-run project.
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