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To: Moonman62

First??? Didn’t the shuttles take off all the time with used RS-25 rocket engines, and they recovered the SRB’s and reused them as well.


4 posted on 03/30/2017 4:04:27 PM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: rednesss

If you want to get technical about it, the Shuttle fuel tank was destroyed after every launch.


5 posted on 03/30/2017 4:11:27 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: rednesss

Yes, plus Blue Origin’s New Shepherd rocket has flown five consecutive times. Still, this is an impressive achievement, and is the last step to dramatically lowering the cost of space flight.


6 posted on 03/30/2017 4:14:56 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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