Reply to post: Re: Unreservedly, unabashedly euphorically optimistic

Getting metal hunks into orbit used to cost a bomb. Then SpaceX's Falcon 9 landed

Tim Brummer

Re: Unreservedly, unabashedly euphorically optimistic

Upon return the engine nozzles also experience a lot of heating and aerodynamic stress from re-entry, something static fired engines don't experience. Same for the hydraulic gimbal actuators.

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