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minus-squareDirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]hexbear18·edit-23 days agoImagine what these engineers could achieve without shareholders and adult trust fund babies fucking them up. I guarantee you they would have achieved this decades ago if it were the Soviet Union. They got a man in space in the 50s ffs link
minus-squarebumpusoot [any]hexbear6·edit-23 days ago100%. Reusable rockets in this fashion were even envisioned and designed by NASA many decades ago, they just never had the funding to do it. link
minus-squareDirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]hexbear4·3 days agoMmm that makes sense. Too busy funding imperialism to spare some for space research. link
Imagine what these engineers could achieve without shareholders and adult trust fund babies fucking them up.
I guarantee you they would have achieved this decades ago if it were the Soviet Union.
They got a man in space in the 50s ffs
100%. Reusable rockets in this fashion were even envisioned and designed by NASA many decades ago, they just never had the funding to do it.
Mmm that makes sense. Too busy funding imperialism to spare some for space research.