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Not to rain too much on your harping, but the DC-X program did vertical landing 30 years ago.


Yes, and that was all the experimental program did. No humans on board, no payloads, no orbit, not even suborbital as they stayed close to the ground.

The Falcon 9 puts humans into orbit then turns around and lands not far from the launch tower. It's then brought in for maintenance and a few weeks later launching again - some of them have done 20 flights.


You’re comparing an experimental program that lasted 6 years with a company founded 22 years ago. How many payload flights did space-x do 6 years into its existence?


No, you made that comparison two posts up. I just replied to you ))


Nice, what happened of it?


It happened at about the time budgetary winter happened for the us space budget, so there was no follow-up on the demonstrator.




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