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Re:NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on Space... by throwawaymaths on Sunday August 25, 2024 @02:00AM (#41344784)
To be fair literally no one else is doing this, not Russia, not China, not Japan, not Europe.
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Re:NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on Space... by m4rtink on Sunday August 25, 2024 @07:20AM (#41346434)
China has at least one Falcon 9 clone in testing stages (that one that accidentally launched during static fire a while ago) and many new-space rocket companies have reusable vehcles in pipeline (eq. Rocketlabs Neutron). Even Europe is going to do that - eventually. :P
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Re:NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on Space... by throwawaymaths on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @09:48AM (#41367486)
> that one that accidentally launched during static fire a while ago

Sounds like china currently has zero rockets that are reusable

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Re:NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on Space... by postingawayonhn on Sunday August 25, 2024 @10:06AM (#41347402)
RocketLab (US/New Zealand) has been recovering stages for awhile. I think they're getting close to reflying one.
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Re:NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on Space... by philistine on Sunday August 25, 2024 @01:42PM (#41349396)
That is exactly my point. It has been 10 years and aside from some small baby steps, no incumbent has declared clearly and vocally that reusability is the future. They're all in denial. The Russians, the Chinese, Europe.
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Re:NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on Space... by piva00 on Monday August 26, 2024 @02:15PM (#41360022)
> They're all in denial. The Russians, the Chinese, Europe.

Not true, ArianeGroup has decided that reusability is the future with their Ariane Next program [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Next

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Re:NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on Space... by throwawaymaths on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @09:49AM (#41367492)
Yep. My point is, it's that it's actually a hard problem
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