The tyranny of the rocket equation | Don Pettit | TEDxHouston 2013

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Winston

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Donald Roy Pettit is a chemical engineer and a NASA astronaut. I support a great increase in his "sophisticated" vs "dumb" payload mass ratio simply by leaving "spam in a can" out of the equation, a point that he, as an astronaut, didn't cover. I support robotic exploration.

[video=youtube;uWjdnvYok4I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjdnvYok4I[/video]
 
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