** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

SlyReaper said:
Isn't that thing supposed to be reusable? Can they really clean that up and repair it for less cost than building a new one? It looks thoroughly scorched.
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The first and second stages of the launcher (Falcon 9 rocket) are planned to be reusable. This will lead to an entirely reusable rocket system. The Dragon capsule is planned to be re-usable as a whole or in parts at some point in time. There isn't much info on this.
 
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Enterprise being towed on the Hudson River past the Statue of Liberty on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
 
simulatorman said:
The first and second stages of the launcher (Falcon 9 rocket) are planned to be reusable. This will lead to an entirely reusable rocket system. The Dragon capsule is planned to be re-usable as a whole or in parts at some point in time. There isn't much info on this.
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It will be interesting to see how they plan to salvage the stages. I thought the biggest problem was that even if you bolted parachutes onto them, the sea water would corrode the internal machinery before it could be recovered.

simulatorman said:
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Enterprise being towed on the Hudson River past the Statue of Liberty on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure that has anything to do with spaceflight though. Enterprise was a test vehicle which never went into space. :p
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