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Drtikol42 t1_jaqh96n wrote

Reply to comment by Topsyye in After flying four astronauts into orbit, SpaceX makes its 101st straight landing — ‘I just feel so lucky that I get to fly on this amazing machine.’ by marketrent

Delta Clipper was working but NASA killed it because of their fetish for space-planes.

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Shrike99 t1_jauo7eo wrote

DC-X was a long way short of Falcon 9, or even New Shepard, and the full Delta Clipper would never have been a useful orbital launcher so long as they insisted on it being an SSTO.

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