• MTK@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It is hard, yet the space shuttle program did just fine and didn’t burn 3 billion dollars of tax payer money for spacex to say “well, it got off the launch pad before exploding, success!”

    No hate to the engineers there, i’m sure any good they do is overshadowed by the nazi drug addict that employees them.

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      The space shuttle is literally the deadliest space vehicle to ever exist. And (adjusted for inflation) cost 1.5 billion dollar per launch … what are you even talking about?

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        5 days ago

        135 missions, only 3 failures with a total of 14 astronauts dead. Spacex had 9 launches and 5 failed.

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          135 missions, only 3 failures with a total of 14 astronauts dead.

          Yeah … that is bad. In fact, the worst track record for any manned space vehicle.

          Also the comparison to Starship is stupid as it’s still in development. And Falcon 9 already beats the shuttle in everything but raw payload capacity. Hell, so did the Soyuz.

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            Falcon 9 is only partially reusable, it is not a reusable vehicle, only the booster. Can’t really compare it to the space shuttle.

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              Neither was the space shuttle, so they are totally comparable

              And even the reusable parts if the shuttle needed extensive and lengthy maintenance to fly again, something the falcon 9 has vastly improved upon.