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by mLuby 2956 days ago
Well sure, any company that makes game changing advances is going to list them in its brochure.

Assuming positive intent rather than sarcasm, so here's why they're game changers:

1.2.3. landing and reusing orbital rockets will deliver a huge increase in launch frequency and a huge reduction in cost, both acting to increase humanity's practical access to space. It's the difference between building a plane that flies once and building a plane that files a hundred times.

4. Falcon Heavy allows us to launch higher payload missions that was possible before. Especially since nobody assembles spacecraft in orbit, this raises the cap on how massive a spacecraft humanity can operate.

5. Giving America the ability to put humans in space without relying on the Russian Soyuz is a political and strategic victory for the US.