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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel
Lex Fridman Podcast
Reusability of Rockets
In terms of the development of the Falcon one and Falcon nine, how early on did the goal of reusing the rocket having the rocket actually land? How early did that goal creep in? I can't speak for Elon and SpaceX, but it was pretty immediate that they wanted to try to recover. And as a matter of fact, I think the very first two Falcon nine rockets and Falcon one, I think they even wanted to trying to recover using parachutes to recover the first stage. They've actually done it successfully once.
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