/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11927726
>block your AN-225 path

>>11633158
No, it was a retarded design and way too many hands were in the space shuttle pie for it to ever come out "right". It would have been much more effective as a vehicle with a big Saturn-like LOX/Kerosine first stage and a LOX/LH2 second stage flier with a stubby lifting body mono-wing instead of big airplane wings. I know people get tired of SpaceX being given kudos but my honest first thoughts about Starship/Superheavy were "Oh, so it's a shuttle but done the right way?" Honestly I even think the dolphin sex configuration with a shuttle riding atop what was essentially a rocket powered jumbo jet would have probably borne better fruit than the shuttle we got.