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California98Civic · 05-10-2020, 02:04 AM

So, this NASA project seems highly impractical for NASA's purposes. Why are they developing a pilotted recreational aircraft or puddle-jump tourism plane? This will never fly to Mars.

...it must be about technology development along the way, but then why build it as a small, pilotted passenger plane?
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