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> Could Boeing built a self-landing reusable rocket? Almost certainly.

McDonnell Douglas is part of Boeing and (before they were part of Boeing) did the DC-X prototype.

One failure ended the program, but it was transfered from McDonnell to NASA at that point I think and funding was shifted towards the reusable VentureStar. But it did demonstrate reuse and went through a partial failure of a hydrogen explosion and recovery:

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_McDonnell_Douglas_DC-...




Yeah, basically exactly what I would expect - they're perfectly capable technology-wise, but they're not capable bureaucratically.

Which, if Musk has value, is where it comes in.


s/at that point/before that point




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