| ▲ | fluoridation 5 days ago | |||||||||||||
Neither will. >It only launched 13 times due to being so expensive as to just not be feasible. "There aren't many uses for such a gigantic rocket. Let's make an even bigger one and hope it works out!" | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | terminalshort 5 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||
Actually, "let's build a cheaper one and hope it works out" is the design philosophy here, and it's a very effective one across pretty much all domains. The fact that it's bigger too is mostly incidental to its economic case. You think we would have stopped at Apollo 17 if the same Saturn V was capable of flying Apollo 18 - 30? | ||||||||||||||
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