This might be a little bit premature. I'd want to see broad commercial success before celebrating it as a marvel of engineering.
Systems like this have been invented repeatedly throughout the decades, but they never succeeded for one reason or another. The problem isn't in coming up with the concept (or, now, making animated 3D renderings), it's in making it actually work well.
This, incidentally, is why so many of us are so ecstatic about SpaceX -- because they've made something amazing that actually works.
Systems like this have been invented repeatedly throughout the decades, but they never succeeded for one reason or another. The problem isn't in coming up with the concept (or, now, making animated 3D renderings), it's in making it actually work well.
This, incidentally, is why so many of us are so ecstatic about SpaceX -- because they've made something amazing that actually works.