"By recovering a booster intact instead of crashing into the ocean, a very large part of launch costs can be saved."
For the Western World that's the big savings.
For China, their big saving is not having boosters fall back to inhabited sections of China willy-nilly...
10 posted on 06/26/2024 9:43:45 AM PDT by null and void
(The last war America actually won was WWII, because the CIA wasn't organized until after that war!)
11 posted on 06/26/2024 9:53:28 AM PDT by null and void
(The last war America actually won was WWII, because the CIA wasn't organized until after that war!)