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Re:We Built the Saturn V (2017) by Dalewyn on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @09:57PM (#42447729)
Space Shuttle (and now SLS) SRBs always dropped into the ocean for recovery after the fact.
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Re:We Built the Saturn V (2017) by mikepurvis on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @10:14PM (#42447805)
I think it’s actually a bit more nuanced than that, see:

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/45894

Basically the SRB had multiple modules and some were more reusable than others, so some got recovered and refurbished a lot more.

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