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That was very different: conventional rockets for ground-to-orbit, but landing with folding helicopter-like rotors. I think the original concept was to use the helicopter rotors to get to high altitude before throttling up, which was supposed to save a lot of fuel, but that was dropped pretty early.


I think they actually wanted to use some rotating set of engines and fuel tanks early on with the rotation taking care of propelant flow.

IIRC they dropped that early on as well.




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