>>1643051>Why would NASA deny SpaceX to develop the capability of landing their crew capsule directly at Kennedy, something NASA would have fucking loved to have?I wish NASA would revisit steerable parachutes/paragliders as a spacecraft recovery method. I know the whole Rogallo-Gemini proposal in the '60s was a bit of a shitshow and probably left a bad taste in their mouths, but the X-38 seemed pretty successful with a ram-air parafoil and showed promise of precision landing capability. And it seems a hell of a lot less hazardous than retropropulsion.
>>1644100Starship is rather plane-like, is it not?
