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weew@lemmy.ca 4 days agoThe space shuttle was technically reusable, but not in a way that was beneficial to anyone. The time and cost of refurbishing the shuttle after every launch was so much they may as well have built a brand new disposable rocket for each mission.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I thought it was the boosters that were pointlessly reused and would have been cheaper to make new.
Are you sure it was also the shuttle itself?
weew@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Not remake the entire shuttle, but to simply design a disposable rocket and build a hundred of those, instead of a space plane.