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It’s cool that SpaceX was able to reuse and re-land the first stage of a rocket, but it happened ~35 years later than it should have.
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Why? Because instead of it being a national priority, we had to wait for an eccentric billionaire to decide it was worth it.
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Do we really want to live in a world where amazing things only happen if some rando unbeholden to anyone wants them to happen?
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(Ok, maybe 15–20 years because solving all those differential equations in the control system in real time is probably computationally hard)