[krschultz]

I always find this opinion infuriating. It's a liquid fueled rocket, we've had those for 50 years, so it's not cutting edge! It's like saying a modern Formula-1 car isn't cutting edge because we had the Lotus 77 40 years ago that looked a hell of a lot like it.

You have no idea what parts of it are or are not cutting edge. I guarantee you many of the parts and pieces in the rocket required pushing boundaries. All the little bits of material science, modern computational analysis, and advanced manufacturing techniques are cutting edge.