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then space shuttle was designed to be reusable. spacex had 20-30 years of data to build off

• fastball 6y ago
  Which they shuttered after one disintegrated on re-entry, losing the entire crew. That was the second total loss of crew in its ~20 year history.
• redis_mlc 6y ago
  > the space shuttle was designed to be reusable. No, actually the PR was that it was reusable, but the design was not. Each shuttle had to be remanufactured after use, taking up to a year and costing $1 billion. But it gets better. They had "lost tiles" problems on the very first flight, and never bothered to do anything about it. What a piece of junk.
  • fastball 6y ago
    Not sure why we're getting downvoted. Space shuttle was absolutely a terrible design from a "true" reusability perspective (the most important part of reusability being cost reduction).
    • redis_mlc 6y ago
      HN readers know so little that I have to provide a link for any statement that's said. I guess you could call it a "knowledge gap."