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Saturn V had a very low thrust:weight ratio. Took forever to get off the pad. With hydrogen-tier thrust it wouldn't have made it a centimeter off the ground.

>So we basically regressed to hydrogen with the Shuttle?
And lost Challenger as a result because hydrogen meant that SRBs where needed to compensate for the RS-25's anemic thrust.

But hydrogen wasn't even the only thing wrong with the shuttle. This article is mainly about SLS but touches on its predecessor as well.
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/02/24/sls-is-cancellation-too-good/
audio: https://soundcloud.com/user-277042869/slsblogrecording-m4a/s-M5kUbZ4acGT

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