>>13451234If you add additional stages they can. That's how rockets work. A big redpill many refuse to swallow is that spaceflight is not hard, complicated or particularly more risky than any other endeavor. It's got a mystique surrounding it that's mostly reverence and fluff, in reality it's just simple physics. Space is not hard, but governments love that you think that and so do their contractors. Webm related: contractors on the $20bn SLS program. Like everything else in government, it's full of fucking pork.
