Re:SpaceX just landed a rocket on a drone ship for the first...
by stcredzero on Saturday April 09, 2016 @05:35PM
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Solid fuel rockets are quite different in construction than liquid fuel rockets.
Hell, when they fell into the water, the impact bent the sections into ovals. They actually had a giant vise that they used to bend those things back into round. (Feynmann noted this in one of his autobiographical books.)
Still, it says something that no actor has ever even bothered attempting to reuse a liquid fueled rocket that is landed in water. The only successful track record of reuse of liquid fuel rockets is the space shuttle, and those landed on a runway. And that isn't preserving the fuel tanks for reuse, mind you, just the engines.