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>I suppose one could attempt a truly exotic design in which the fuel tank gets gasified, piped past the payload, and then burned, thus allowing the tank to be on top, but these seems unlikely to work very well.

I've been thinking of this design for a long time, but so far it sounds a bit preposterous even for a sci-fi enthusiast with no rocketry knowledge :)




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