/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12340860
Beat your meat to rockets instead.

>>9606208

If it's not broke don't fix it. Also the shuttle hardware works better when applied to a normal three-stage rocket instead of the space shuttle, who would have guessed. It's sufficient in a world where aerospike and nuclear propulsion research is marginalized.

>>9606213

Yes, but that doesn't change that he's using a huge amount of engines. Building a bigger engine would have resulted in more fuel efficiency as well, although it would have required a completely new production line (which Musk is apparently unable to get financing for otherwise he'd do that like any sane engineer would suggest). I'm not saying it's impossible, just extraordinarily difficult. More difficult than getting the original space shuttle to work.