SpaceX fails to land Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: SpaceX fails to land
# 13519 byalglobus@... on Jan. 13, 2015, 1:21 a.m.
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On Jan 12, 2015, at 12:32 AM, sraj sraj99@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
> Musk has said and wrote repeatedly making rockets fully reusable will reduce the cost of getting to orbit to 1 percent of what it is today.
That would be great. So far, the only more-or-less reusable spacecraft was the shuttle and it was very expensive.
Reusability only helps if the maintenance and processing between flights is minimal.
> Finally facilitating Musks dream of landing humans on Mars to eventually create flourishing colonies on the Martian planet, making humanity a multi-planet species.
> http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/spacex-fails-to-land-why-did-it-happen/
>
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> wrote:
Musk has said and wrote repeatedly making rockets fully reusable will reduce the cost of getting to orbit to 1 percent of what it is today.
That would be great. So far, the only more-or-less reusable spacecraft was the shuttle and it was very expensive.
Reusability only helps if the maintenance and processing between flights is minimal.
Finally facilitating Musks dream of landing humans on Mars to eventually create flourishing colonies on the Martian planet, making humanity a multi-planet species.
http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/spacex-fails-to-land-why-did-it-happen/