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A comment on SpaceX's New Spin on Falcon 9. Parent comment

Re:SpaceX's New Spin on Falcon 9 by nickff on Thursday March 19, 2015 @12:55PM (#9233199)
I agree that the changes will be revolutionary, and drastically reduce launch costs; but SpaceX is only prepared to recover the first stage in the near term, and the second stage is still quite costly. In the long term, launch costs will go down as much as you say, but SpaceX is not quite there yet.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_d...

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Re:SpaceX's New Spin on Falcon 9 by toomuchtodo on Thursday March 19, 2015 @01:13PM (#9233301)
Yes, yes, definitely agree they're not there yet, but when you look at space technology from the 60's to now, and how quickly SpaceX has moved from inception to first successful stage landing, it's extremely impressive.
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