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Old 28th May 2025 | 10:35
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B Fraser
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Nope, the Shuttle re-used the RS25 engines however the servicing costs ultimately made a mockery of the economics. (They pushed the engineering too far and escaped a disaster by the skin of their teeth on one launch with a recycled engine but that's another story.)

Today, the economics of re-use are well proven. Even the Chinese are working on reusable SpaceX clones.
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