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by themadturk
1043 days ago
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For what it's worth, the Apollo program only had one bespoke launch vehicle, the Saturn V. Mercury used the Redstone (for sub-orbital flights) and Atlas, and Gemini the Titan, all of which were developed as ballistic missile platforms. |
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>39. (alternate formulation) The three keys to keeping a new human space program affordable and on schedule:
> 1) No new launch vehicles.
> 2) No new launch vehicles.
> 3) Whatever you do, don't develop any new launch vehicles.
Given that SpaceX wanted to make a more affordable launch vehicle, they obviously needed to design one. But it certainly didn't make their human space flight programme go faster compared to past endeavours.