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It did lose another thruster during deorbit. Ooof.

The thing that just does Not instill my confidence, It's 2024 21st century and It all just remains so primitive in design for a survivable landing after reentry. Talk about low-Tech. delivery system that still can't move past drag Drogue's deployed to slow, and extract Round Parachutes for inflation. Reality is that it still just leaves human crew as a Billion dollar wind-drift that will be hitting the deck in a 'estimated LZ area' using an onboard inflatable airbag impact cushion... aka : compression impact avoidance.
( It all works ), but you throw in variables of one or two malfunctions to disrupt the mechanical order of completion, and desert hard pan is pretty unforgiving .
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The thing that just does Not instill my confidence, It's 2024 21st century and It all just remains so primitive in design for a survivable landing after reentry. Talk about low-Tech. delivery system that still can't move past drag Drogue's deployed to slow, and extract Round Parachutes for inflation. Reality is that it still just leaves human crew as a Billion dollar wind-drift that will be hitting the deck in a 'estimated LZ area' using an onboard inflatable airbag impact cushion... aka : compression impact avoidance.
( It all works ), but you throw in variables of one or two malfunctions to disrupt the mechanical order of completion, and desert hard pan is pretty unforgiving .
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much early transportation was unsafe at the beginning and quite scary