Reply to post: Re: He'd better hurry - Virgin Galactic only a year away from launch!

NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings

eldakka

Re: He'd better hurry - Virgin Galactic only a year away from launch!

And since the engines are by far, far, the most expensive part of a rocket (fuel/oxidiser is trivial, hull isn't trivial but compared to engines small), even if the starship hull isn't re-useable, returning the first stage with its 37(ish - TBA) engines intact to be used again is a huge cost-benefit.

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