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[-] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I think the problem is more than Congress told them to build a new rocket with shuttle parts. You can't exactly change your prop if you're required to use the same engines.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

I didn't say that Congress told them to build a new rocket with shuttle parts. And yeah, a short paragraph isn't going to capture all the details of decades of interactions between politics, the private space industry, and funding of NASA. There is indeed more to it.

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