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In response to "The Russian have always landed on ground so there's already that progress ;-)" by JD

Starship will be that future. Fully reusable, short turnaround. 100 passengers, lands under power. Can support

Posted by TWuG Aug 2 '20, 12:31

missions to ISS, Moon, Mars, etc.

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But in the meantime, we (US) needed a way to get back to orbit. Elon needed Falcon to build Falcon 9 to build Super Falcon - JD Aug 2, 12:37 7
- Were supposed to get a 300m hop of SN5 here in the next few days. - TWuG Aug 2, 12:43 6
  - 8-) I remember the initial announcement of that one and the whole 30 days thing. So 2022 seems at the earliest but getting to the point where they - JD Aug 2, 12:52 5
    - Like or dislike Elon, he's organized a group of people at both Tesla and SpaceX to completely upend two very established industries. -- nm - TWuG Aug 2, 12:58 4
      - I'll take the dislike side. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 2, 13:18
      - He already did it once and I helped him / he helped me. I was among the first users of PayPal and sent out so many PayPal invoices back in the day - JD Aug 2, 13:16 2
        
        Yeah, I finally saved a letter that I sent to the people that replied back to me asking me what PayPal was. -- nm - ♤Spawn♤ Aug 2, 14:03
        
        Of the two PayPal guys, Elon is the lesser of the evils. Thiel is just straight up villain. -- nm - TWuG Aug 2, 13:28
Is that what Hugo Drax is aiming for? (NM) - Marlowe Aug 2, 12:33 1
- If Elon starts purchasing greenhouses and bio firms, I'll have considered myself to have been warned -- nm - JD Aug 2, 12:33
Zefram Cochrane? -- nm - ♤Spawn♤ Aug 2, 12:32

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