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This is exciting, hopefully space programs continue to go in the private direction.


I hope that, with the money NASA has to spend in launches, the private sector finds clever and cheap ways to haul people and cargo to LEO so that NASA can focus its talent on doing things the private sector cannot or prefers not to do, not maintaining an impressive (and impressively expensive) fleet of delivery vehicles.

It saddens me we won't see many more 100-ton launches (70-ton shuttle + 30-ton payload) for a while, as those will be replaced by far less impressive 30-ton launches.




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