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Started by Legend, Jan 07, 2017, 05:32 PM

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those are some pretty nice numbers.  more to LEO than the saturn V and reusable.  6x what the falcon 9 can do. this would really open up the commercial space industry and make large missions much more feasible.   itll be interesting to hear the launch costs, and really makes one question if tis even worth it for nasa to keep developing larger rockets.   they could put the funds towards what to do once in space.
Yeah this feels like a Falcon Heavy+SLS replacement. Second stage will be fully reusable so it should be cheaper than FH even for lighter loads.

On one hand it sucks they can't secure funding to jump directly into the full sized version, but on the other hand this'll still be an extremely useful rocket. Could take the first humans to Mars still.