[AR] Re: The Atlantic: Elon Musk and SpaceX Want to Fly From NYC to Shanghai in 39 Minutes
- From: Derek Lyons <fairwater@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 16:36:54 -0700
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Doug Jones <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You don't land the big shiny expensive rocket at the LZ, you sacrifice some
payload performance and drop one or more reentry vehicles with parafoil
landing systems- expendable, far cheaper than the rocket, and redundant.
Pre-cisely. Despite all the handwaving about battlefield capability,
historically aviation logistics units have been kept as far from from
the shooting as humanly possible.
D.
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