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I think NASA missions are ideated, planned, and executed on the scale of 10-20 years. The first re-launch of a booster by SpaceX happened just over 5 years ago,

I think NASA missions are ideated, planned, and executed on the scale of 10-20 years. The first re-launch of a booster by SpaceX happened just over 5 years ago, in March of 2017.

pantalaimon 4y ago
The Delta Clipper flew and landed successfully already back in the 90ies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
- nine_k 4y ago
  It was cool but apparently the highest it went was 3 km. Not the same as landing from a nearly orbital speed.