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Old July 11th 12, 01:44 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history,rec.arts.sf.science
Jeff Findley[_2_]
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Default On the lasting importance of the SpaceX accomplishment.
In article ,
says...

bob haller wrote:

by now it should be clear to everyone that the old way, gets us no
where in space. just look at the JWST

in the beginning of space exploration things were much more like
spaceX although there were some big failures there were also grand
successes

Well, no, they weren't like SpaceX at all. In the beginning of space
exploration the mantra was "Waste anything but time". Hardly the
approach of SpaceX.

Agreed. Because of that mantra, the transportation architecture was
developed to get to the moon a.s.a.p. Unfortunately, that same
transportation architecture proved to be too expensive to sustain and
its funding was cut well before the Apollo 11 successfully landed on the
moon.

SpaceX has always been focused on building a low cost, sustainable,
transportation architecture.

Jeff
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