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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by hinkley on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:12PM (#33446018)
I have a lingering suspicion it was the astronauts. All of those pilots wanting to be in charge of the ship, in an age where is was hard enough to get a computer to do the work without having to cooperate with a human.

A lot of the stuff SpaceX has been able to do is down to automated systems. Maybe we would have had rockets that could land in the late 80’s if that turf war had gone the other way.

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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by amatwl on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:57AM (#33462382)
IIRC - Shuttle autoland capability was vetoed by the Astronaut Office. There was some capability within the guidance software for it, but it was never demonstrated (some early Shuttle flights got close to demonstrating it though).
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