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Load and Go
NASA is at least verbally sounding more encouraging about the SpaceX
'Load and Go' launch for manned vehicles. This is good because, while they could do it the other way, there would be a performance hit due to the propellants having time to warm up. Block 5 has some extra performance over Block 4, so there may be some headspace there, but why give it up? -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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