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Gravityloss
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The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early e...
DC-X was a nineties rocket that flew and landed on its tail. It was not orbital though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzXcTFfV3Ls
throwaway84742
on April 17, 2018
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All right. “Orbital rockets that land upright”. Better now?
DmenshunlAnlsis
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You kinda missed the main point. Musk's business is focused entirely on improving existing, proven, old technologies.
So we’re all in agreement then, very good.
throwaway84742
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It’s kind of like saying that a motorcycle is an “improved bicycle”.
afterburner
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It's more like saying a self-balancing bicycle is an improved bicycle.
Gravityloss
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There were separate technologies. Orbital rockets. Rockets with kerosene gas generator engines or balloon tanks or aluminium lithium tanks already. There were rockets that landed on their tail. These technologies were all combined into one.
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