On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Jonathan A Goff wrote:
> As for if the reusability is just a PR gimmick as per Henry, I actually
> think that is no longer
> true. From what I've seen, SpaceX is really intending to recover and
> try to reuse the first stage.
It's not that they weren't intending to try, but that the chances of
success were thought to be poor, and the chances of actually achieving
significant cost savings were thought to be minimal.
It's like the retrieval and refurbishing of the shuttle SRBs. It does
work. It saves NASA very little money, possibly none at all. It's a lot
of extra trouble and considerable extra grief for the engineers, and the
only real gain is being able to boast about reusability.
Henry Spencer
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