1. Reusability of the SH/SS kind might be its own enemy. As you yourself have said as I recall--rockets are not airplanes.
2. I just consider stage-and-a-half_to_wet workshop a less stressful form of reusability.
Fly once--retire
3. Now you see that as a waste--but if I were to put a voice in the materials, they might prefer the Gene Meyers approach over the Elon Musk approach
4.He made a name as a mental spoon-bender because he first pre-weakened the spoons by working them back and forth. I am just worried SS/SH aggressive flight profiles will do exactly the same
1. no, it only exists for reusability. there are better ways to bulld an expendable vehicle and can't afford non reusable star ships.
2. just stop with "wet" workshop. It is unworkable for several decades
3. it is a waste. there is no need for more than one or so workshops.
again, incomplete statements and assumptions. Who is Carson and Gene Meyers ?
4. no.
a. they are not "aggressive".
b. if you think that, then you don't know what engineering is and you wouldn't be flying on airliners which repeatedly go through rough air. Fatigue is a well known phenomenon.
and yes because Falcon works does mean SH/SS will work because they know what to look for.
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