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

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The Space Shuttle Is a Space Shuttle, You Know?

The first four attempts of this were pretty spectacular failures. I'm actually surprised that for Earth, they aren't just looking at landing it horizontally on a runway like space shuttle. If we kind of give up on our ego and land horizontally, at least on Earth, then you know, I think they could be doing that pretty quickly. It sounds ridiculous and it is, but the ultimate goal of it is to land on Mars. The bronze did it. You know, the Soviet Union's bronze. So wow, wow, really good. And you know, the brand did it. Do we have other space planes like the X 37 B? We have the upcoming Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser.

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