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		fnord77 on Nov 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The good things in the current age in tech a VTOL rocket booster, no, but NASA has had experience with VTOL rockets. Despite their marking, SpaceX did not invent VTOL rockets.

NikolaeVarius on Nov 13, 2021 [–]

NASA has never launched a orbital velocity VTOL rocket

fnord77 on Nov 13, 2021 | [–]

no, but the Delta Clipper test flights in the 90s were the first time a rocket had landed vertically on Earth.

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