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>>14622152
It’s realistic. It also doesn’t focus on people so there’s no real personal drama. It’s like a serial. Each part is just a snippet of history.
It’s also pretty cool. The world build in it is great and is actually very plausible.
Most of all, it’s not pure wish fulfillment like For All Mankind.

It’s just funny how NASA was willing to give us SSTO when it came to reusable spaceplanes but when it came to VTOL rockets, they never thought of stacking them on top of each other.
Also, let this be a lesson in why private spaceflight is good. DC-X was cool, but because it was tied to government $$$$, it was cancelled on a whim.

Also fun fact but in the alternate history series “Eyes Turned Skywards,” the DC-X team is hired by a Blue Origin expy, only it doesn’t suck and they end up building a semi-reusable rocket called Thunderbolt by the mid 2000s (lower right corner).