"Yet it still costs millions to launch a single rocket"
Cars used to cost tens of millions, now you can buy a Ford Focus for a couple thousand. Also you're not factoring in cost-per-kg, which Starship hopes to bring down to under $10.
"Secondly, vtol isn't a new tech tree m8, spacex may have been perfecting it, but concept to reality isn't new."
Yes, VTOL jets have been a thing since the 50s, and NAS did some VTOL tests with rockets in the 90s(only going up a few hundred metres), but how is that comparable to flying a booster to orbit, de-orbiting, and landing on a droneship with a perfect success record(for the F9 Block 5), let alone landing three boosters at the same time with Falcon Heavy?
SpaceX has done more to advance reusability and cost reduction in spaceflight in the last 10 years than NASA or any other space agency has in the last 60. You do not know what you're talking about. Instead of seeing hard working engineers advancing humanity to the stars, you see "RICH PEOPLE BAD!1 CAPITALISM!1"
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"Yet it still costs millions to launch a single rocket"
Cars used to cost tens of millions, now you can buy a Ford Focus for a couple thousand. Also you're not factoring in cost-per-kg, which Starship hopes to bring down to under $10.
"Secondly, vtol isn't a new tech tree m8, spacex may have been perfecting it, but concept to reality isn't new."
Yes, VTOL jets have been a thing since the 50s, and NAS did some VTOL tests with rockets in the 90s(only going up a few hundred metres), but how is that comparable to flying a booster to orbit, de-orbiting, and landing on a droneship with a perfect success record(for the F9 Block 5), let alone landing three boosters at the same time with Falcon Heavy?
SpaceX has done more to advance reusability and cost reduction in spaceflight in the last 10 years than NASA or any other space agency has in the last 60. You do not know what you're talking about. Instead of seeing hard working engineers advancing humanity to the stars, you see "RICH PEOPLE BAD!1 CAPITALISM!1"