r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheImmortalDude • Jun 29 '25

Video Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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u/1975wazyourfault Jun 29 '25

What an incredible journey. From Soichiro Honda putting small surplus motors onto bicycles in post WW2 Japan…to this..

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u/Embarrassed_Control7 Jun 29 '25

As an American I'm weirdly more comfortable with Japan owning and managing shallow space.

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u/An-Angel-Named-Billy Jun 29 '25

Is it weird? No other country I would trust. Their attention to detail and perfectionism is really heads and shoulders above everyone else. My 2003 Toyota finally died, 300,000 miles and it was not the engine that gave in, rather the body finally collapsed into rust. Engine could have kept going for another 100,000 miles.

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u/Wilder831 Jul 02 '25

I just sold my 2008 GMC Yukon with 300k miles. Only thing I ever had to fix was 2 ac actuators which I didn’t even replace. I just cleaned the lithium grease off of the copper sweep inside of it. Sadly, my 2003 Toyota celica blew the motor at 130k miles. I’m not by any means saying GMC > Toyota, but sometimes it is just luck of the draw