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so the pivotal breakthrough.
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But that's necessary that some company has come up with to make life.
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Multi planetary is of fully and rapidly reusable overclass rocket.
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This is a very difficult thing to do because we way live on a planet where it that is just barely possible.
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If gravity were a little lower, it would be easy.
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If it was a little higher, it would be impossible.
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Uh, so, uh, even for an expendable launch vehicle, you know where you don't attempt any recovery after?
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A lot of smart people have done their best to optimize the weight of the vehicle and the efficiency, the engines and the guidance system.
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Everything you get, maybe 2 to 3% of your lift off.
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Wait, talk to orbit.
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That's not a lot of room for error.
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So if you rock, it ends up being just a little little bit heavier.
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You get nothing to orbit.
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And this is why only a few countries have ever reached orbit.
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Now you say.
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Okay, well, let's make it reusable, which means you've gotto strengthen the stages.
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You're gonna add a lot of weight, a lot of, uh, thermal protection.
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You've got to do do a lot of things that that add weight to to that vehicle and still have a useful paler toe of it.
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This'd is nice.
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Ink off that meager 2 to 3% over.
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And maybe if you're really good, get it to fall.
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You've got addle that all that's necessary to bring the rocket stages back to the launch pad and be able to re fly them and still have useful paler 12.
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It so very difficult thing that this has been attempted many times in the past.
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And generally what's happened is when people have concluded that success was not one of the possible outcomes than that the project's been abandoned.
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No way could fail.
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Uh, I'm not saying we were certain of success here, but we're going to try to do it.