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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by bombcar on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:18PM (#33441477)
It's an off-planet ball of rock.

That's tremendously valuable, because it's off planet and out of our gravity well, so we can launch much bigger rockets (measured in interplanetary payload capacity) than we can from earth (though the moon itself may be better, depending on what we can get there).

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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by Moissanite on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:30PM (#33441638)
Launch rockets where, and for what?

If you want to do science, then I wager it is better to do more of the work on Earth and head straight for your destination, avoiding the Mars gravity well entirely.

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