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(Alleged) Photo of the Flight 6 payload bay during reentry (forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

submitted 3 months ago by llamacoffee@lemmy.world to c/spacex@sh.itjust.works

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Image link from NSF forum.

Originally leaked on X (I think), then posted to the SpaceXLounge subreddit by u/mehelponow

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

Sure, but the rare catastrophic failure issue is not why the Spaceshuttle is widely considered an engineering failure. The real issue with it was that the re-usability of it turned out to be a huge money sink. Spaceship might face a similar fate with those heat-tiles.