Re:SpaceX caps 2022 with record-setting 61st Falcon 9 launch
by panick21_ on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:15AM
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It wasn't designed to be inspiring. That is nonsense. Non of the designers involved would ever claim that's what they did.
It was designed in an environment they couldn't iterate and test, and tried to go from very little knowlage directly to a massively complex system.
And no only that, they were very limited in terms of funding, so anything that required to much development had to be kicked.
Exactly. The shuttle program was designed by bureaucrats to be "inspiring." Which explains why it was such a dismal failure economically and in turns of safety - killing 14 people which is far more than any other rocket, and costing insanely more than expendables.
The shuttle program set the U.S. space program back by decades. We are only now finally starting to recover from its dismal failure.