Comments on: The Damascus-like sample was significantly stronger https://www.isegoria.net/2020/06/the-damascus-like-sample-was-significantly-stronger/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Sam J. https://www.isegoria.net/2020/06/the-damascus-like-sample-was-significantly-stronger/comment-page-1/#comment-3218670 Sam J. Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:38:25 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46797#comment-3218670 The Sea Dragon a 79,000,000 lbf thrust first stage space rocket was be made of maraging steel. They were to use a kind of drag balloon to crash it into the sea for reuse.

What the launch should look like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRMDcC0QvFQ

Instead of building the SLS (a huge rip off) we should have built this and used methane and liquid oxygen as fuel. If we needed less payload we could just put less fuel in it or launched fuel tanks to store in earth orbit for later.

It’s glorious.

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