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Falcon 9 gets its feet wet as SpaceX notch up two more launch successes

Gene Cash Silver badge

Re: NASA has concerns over SpaceX culture??!?

My beef with NASA being all hoity-toity is not only have they lost astronauts, but they've sat on their ass and not done any significant basic rocket research since the '70s WHICH IS THEIR JOB

They've talked about recovering boosters FOREVER and not done it. Hell, even the very first Redstones that launched Shepard, et al were supposed to be recovered by parachute, but NASA bottled out and put in 300lbs of ballast instead. And Gemini was supposed to be recovered by parasail, and they bottled out again.

Commercial crew is ready to go, except NASA can't get the paperwork together.

They're yelling at SpaceX to get off their lawn, these days.

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