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Re:Falcon Heavy and Starman [video] by mikeash on Saturday March 10, 2018 @11:35PM (#16561713)
It wasn’t costly. They weren’t going to reuse that core anyway. They’re just starting to roll out their “block 5” cores designed for long-term reusabity, and they won’t fly the older ones much longer. Landing it was just practice for the future.
Re:Falcon Heavy and Starman [video] by greglindahl on Sunday March 11, 2018 @01:45PM (#16563942)
Landing it is an opportunity to inspect a flown center core for the first time. Even though future center cores are different, there was still a lot that could have been learned.