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Shuttle SRB segments were fished from the ocean and refilled.

• baq 2y ago
  Yeah but salt water makes it about as difficult as building from scratch.
  • throwaway48476 2y ago
    Then why didn't they stop?
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > why didn't they stop? They did [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_retirement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_retirement
    • altcognito 2y ago
      Beyond the fact that they eventually did quit, the shuttle program was the public face of the US space program, and part of having more than one way to launch military stuff.
      • pfdietz 2y ago
        The military rapidly gave up on the Shuttle after the first accident. No shuttle was ever launched from the pad on the west coast at Vandenberg (plenty of F9s have been, though.)