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this too

>>12523720
They weren’t shaking uncontrollably but two of the Raptors did smack into each other. It wasn’t a big deal but the engine that got dented also was the once that stayed lit during the landing burn.

>2020
>I am...forgotten

>>12188501
>>12188812
So you're saying that realistically no matter what it was literally impossible, and wouldn't have really served as a proper Shuttle replacement?

That kind of helps soften the blow I guess, knowing that it wouldn't have worked out that way anyways.

Now I can go back to lamenting that DIRECT and Jupiter rockets never replaced the shuttle instead as they should have.

DIRECT bros....

>>12112411
it was a much simpler design than SLS too

>>12009944
>orange tanks
>white fairings

This, unironically.

>>11985134
That's what it was supposed to be, a cheap refit of the Shuttle architecture sans Orbiter so we can get our boys back into space from our own soil within a year or so, instead they decided to go full retard and completely shit all over the intentions of the DIRECT team

>>11714390
>t. Shelby

It seemed like a great idea, and developing it would have costed under $14 Billion. Also unlike SLS, it did not require new 5 segment boosters or even a stage stretch, which appears to be the main problem facing SLS right now.

>>10599047
I dunno about you but this is not what the SLS looks like. The design was so simple, but NASA management just had to fuck it all up

>>10525585
Only one makes sense

>>10516530
>SLS is basically made from shuttle parts.
they didn't even do it the right way as intended by the engineers, NASA workers, etc who came up with DIRECT, instead they did it so SLS could become a pork barrel project sustaining jobs/elections/congressmen, etc..

>>10473132
>anti-SLS means pro SpaceX

fuck off

>we could have had this by now
>instead congress went full greedy retard with their SLS meant only to siphon money to them

Politics has no business in spaceflight