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pyrale01/17/20252 repliesview on HN

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


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dotancohen01/17/2025

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.

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eecc01/17/2025

Nice, what happened of it?

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