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panick21_ a day ago

That's kind of ridiculous and pedantic. In a solid fuel rocket, the solid fuel is most of the complexity and most of the cost. The rocket flys because of how the solid fuel is shaped and engineered.

Reflying the booster cases doesn't change the fact that an essentially new solid booster has to be manufactured.

In fact it didn't even financially make sense to reuse the boosters, so it was actually worse then not being reusable at all.

As with everything with Shuttle, it all sounds cool when you imagine it, but then if you look at the actual program its basically a 40 shit-show that started very badly and basically never got better. In actual fact, it failed completely as an industrial program for the US.