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> Sometimes you can aim for an 85% mission success rate and launch 5 probes for half the price a decade earlier.

…Which NASA also does.

That’s the helicopter on Mars, and the first Starship mission.

Which 85% success rate space mission did you pull off?



> …Which NASA also does. That’s the helicopter on Mars

So you agree with me that it's viable, great.

I guess I should have been more clear that the perfectionism is how NASA almost always operates these days.

> the first Starship mission.

Not NASA.

> Which 85% success rate space mission did you pull off?

What's with this hostility?

All I said is that it's not extremely vital. I didn't even say NASA definitely did anything wrong, just that there are options.




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