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Yes my friend, I do also hope they will continue and be successful company.
I have question friend, if company like produced in less costs of what they have achieved, what was a purpose of Space Shuttle? Wasn’t like waste of money?
Just thinking
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the space shuttle was meant to make us think it was reusable, making the public think it was saving money.
It was basically rebuilt between launches.
Someday the private sector will show them how its done!
My 0.02, the Space Shuttle was a system that was crippled from the start, because they couldn’t afford to make the booster truly reusable (one design had it manned also, a lot like the Rutan system); they couldn’t make the orbiter reusable without major refurbishment either, due to technological and budgetary constraints. The turn-around time was not even close to what had been originally planned, and the per-flight cost was also much higher than originally planned. I don’t think it was considered to be “the answer” when it was completed; it wound up to be an interim design that kept flying because it was all that we had.