Comment by fooblaster
1 day ago
coming back in one piece, and being good enough to use for 5 more missions are two very different things. For example, all existing reentry vehicles come back "fine" but they need to be completely remade to go up again.
I remember this being the same argument used against the Falcon 9 when it first stuck its landings.
"Oh, they'll need to do it 10x to be profitable!"
Now they do, as a matter of course.
Just because you defeat popular consensus of what is possible in one place doesn't mean you can continue to do it again and again. This stuff is hard.
Yes reusing falcon 9 was hard too.
Being a cynical naysay isn’t hard.