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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Falcon 9 - What's Next?

The first Falcon 9s had a square array of engines. Now there's eight, like a ring of eight engines with a center engine in the middle. The next big feature that you saw in 2014 would have been they added landing legs to a Falcon nine rocket. And people were literally laughing at the idea of them putting landing legs on it. They just thought it's stupid.

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