Elon Musk, CEO, SpaceX and Tesla (Code Conference 2016)
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How to Reuse the Boost Stage?
The rocket will then go from vacuum through rarefied air at hypersonic velocity. The only way to really land it is to have it continue on that arc, that ballistic arc and then land far out to sea with a pre-positioned ship. So in order to reuse the boost stage which is about 70% of the cost of the rocket,. Well, I mean it's sort of on the order of 30 to 35 million dollars. And I think it's quite tragic if rockets like get smashed into tiny pieces and land part of the atmosphere. Yes, okay. Yeah, so we want to get a bag. And that way we don't have to make another one.
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