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Sure, and the Falcon rocket is not fully reusable, either. It's a lot harder to reuse the second stage, because it's the part that goes to orbit, which means it's moving very fast, and has to lose a lot of energy in order to land softly.

Again, this makes me wonder if the gulf here is academia vs industry, or if it's just 1980 vs 2020.




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