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Unfortunately, it's worth noting that while NASA's achievements were extremely laudable, it's an open question whether they could reproduce the results in a short timeframe. Some of the technologies of the Apollo era have been misplaced (either within NASA's large body of hard-copy material or never transferred from private contractors who have gone away).

SpaceX is exciting because they're doing launches and landings right now, reliably and successfully.



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