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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Imagine what these engineers could achieve without shareholders and adult trust fund babies fucking them up.

I guarantee you they would have achieved this decades ago if it were the Soviet Union.

They got a man in space in the 50s ffs

[-] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

100%. Reusable rockets in this fashion were even envisioned and designed by NASA many decades ago, they just never had the funding to do it.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Mmm that makes sense. Too busy funding imperialism to spare some for space research.

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