
Why Single Stage to Orbit rockets SUCK. The wacky history and future maybes of SSTOs
Published May 15, 2018
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Rockets are HUGE, complicated and expensive. As a matter of fact, the rocket that took humans to the moon, the Saturn 5, was 111 meters or 363 feet tall, and had more separation events than dating teenagers. So why do rockets always split themselves into multiple parts. Isn’t that complicated and risky? Why throw so …
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