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		kadenshep on July 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and cr... >the Delta and Long March families are very large and very old and if you count the earliest attempts of governments to build ICBMs you get reliability figures worse than SpaceX. "If you do this thing that you didn't do, you get worse figures." Um, okay.

kanox on July 20, 2018 [–]

But you did write (entire family) for Delta and Long March. Your data is confusing and wrong.

kadenshep on July 20, 2018 | [–]

...for orbital launches, which is quite literally what 99% of these rockets have been used for. Which also is exactly what we are talking about.

It's only confusing if you're wanting to be disingenuous.

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