Re: A bit negative...
"All of that expensive recovery work was PR to imply it was cheaper."
Not to mention that congressional pork resulted in the things being built in Utah, which automatically limited their diameter to what would fit in railway tunnels.
The original proposal was for the boosters to be built somewhere along the gulf coast and barged in. Doing that would have allowed them to be much bigger - and the original liquid rocket design was intended to be "fly home"
Shuttle was a clusterfuck built on top of a camel - the F35 of its day.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
