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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by nwallin on Monday August 02, 2021 @11:24PM (#28045393)
The Space Shuttle costed $1.6 billion per launch. There's not a whole lot of things that would be cheaper to repair than to build a new one and launch it on a Falcon 9.

I agree that the Space Shuttle had a cool factor that nothing else does.

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