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The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation

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The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation

The biggest leap in spaceflight wasn't landing on the Moon, it was just getting into orbit in the first place. The rocket equation rules everything when it comes to spaceflight. Even something novel like Starship by SpaceX is subject to the rocket equation. If we learned of some way to nullify the effects of gravity, we could make the rocket equation moot. A final way around this would be the discovery of some form of physics that we currently don't know about.

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