> s far as I know no solid state boosters were ever re-used (how would that work?) Nitpicking of "reuse" vs "refurbish" aside the SRBs were significantly reuse

> s far as I know no solid state boosters were ever re-used (how would that work?) Nitpicking of "reuse" vs "refurbish" aside the SRBs were significantly reused: > The RSRM was designed to make the most use of recoverable hardware. The majority of metal hardware was recycled through ATK’s Clearfield refurbishment plant in Utah and returned to a flight-qualified conditioned. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120001536 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120001536 The boosters used for the final mission, STS-135, even included parts from STS-1! https://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/fdf/135srbs.pdf https://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/fdf/135srbs.pdf