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Here's Elon Musk in 2011 announcing he believes full and rapidly reusable rockets are achievable. “The pivotal breakthrough that some company has to come up with to make life multiplanetary is a fully and rapidly reusable orbit-class rocket. This is a very difficult thing to do because we live on a planet where that is just barely possible. If gravity were a little lower, it would be easy. If it was a little higher, it would be impossible. It's just a very tough engineering problem. I wasn't sure it could be solved for a while. But then, relatively recently, in the last twelve months or so, I've come to the conclusion that it can be solved. SpaceX is going to try to do it. We could fail. I'm not saying we're certain of success, but we're going to try to do it. We have a design that, on paper, doing the calculations, doing the simulations, does work. We need to make sure that those simulations and reality agree, because generally when they don't, reality wins.” National Press Club, 2011

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ELON: MANY SAID REUSABILITY WAS DUMB AND IMPOSSIBLE “A lot of people said [reusability] couldn't be done. And then, there were a lot of people who said even if it could be done, it's a dumb idea, that it wouldn't pay off, that it wouldn't make sense. But we've shown that, in fact, it is absolutely the right idea. Reusability is the key to a great future in space. It's essential. We need reusability with rockets, just like we have reusability for cars, for airplanes, for bicycles, for horses. The fundamental invention that is necessary for humanity to become a multi-planet species is a Rapidly Reusable Reliable Rocket, or R.R.R.R.” Source: SpaceX Update, January 2024

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How a single, obvious question led Elon Musk to create SpaceX and changed space travel forever: “I came to the conclusion that there wasn’t really a good reason for rockets to be so expensive, and that they could be a lot less Even in an expendable format they could be less" From day one, Elon's mission has been crystal clear: make rockets fully reusable, just like commercial airplanes "The cost of space travel would drop dramatically, because the cost of the fuel was maybe anywhere from 0.2 to 0.5 percent of the cost of the rocket But nobody had really been able to make a reusable rocket work. So I thought, ‘Okay, if we can do that, then that would really be the key breakthrough for space travel’”
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How a single, obvious question led Elon Musk to create SpaceX and changed space travel forever: “I came to the conclusion that there wasn’t really a good reason for rockets to be so expensive, and that they could be a lot less Even in an expendable format they could be less" From day one, Elon's mission has been crystal clear: make rockets fully reusable, just like commercial airplanes "The cost of space travel would drop dramatically, because the cost of the fuel was maybe anywhere from 0.2 to 0.5 percent of the cost of the rocket But nobody had really been able to make a reusable rocket work. So I thought, ‘Okay, if we can do that, then that would really be the key breakthrough for space travel’”

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WITHOUT REUSABILITY, STARSHIP WOULD HAVE ABOUT 400 TONS OF PAYLOAD TO ORBIT "Starship is fully reusable, with twice the payload to orbit of the next biggest rocket that made it to orbit, which is the Saturn V Without reusability, Starship would have about 400 tons of payload to orbit So, this is a very big rocket, is what I'm saying. But you need a big rocket to make life multi-planetary And then along the way, we could do very cool things like have a moon base, like Moon Base Alpha. Long ago, there was a TV show about Moon Base Alpha You couldn't think about the physics of that too much because apparently the moon base was drifting away from Earth But anyway, we should have a Moon Base Alpha. The next step after the Apollo program would be to have a base on the Moon"
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WITHOUT REUSABILITY, STARSHIP WOULD HAVE ABOUT 400 TONS OF PAYLOAD TO ORBIT "Starship is fully reusable, with twice the payload to orbit of the next biggest rocket that made it to orbit, which is the Saturn V Without reusability, Starship would have about 400 tons of payload to orbit So, this is a very big rocket, is what I'm saying. But you need a big rocket to make life multi-planetary And then along the way, we could do very cool things like have a moon base, like Moon Base Alpha. Long ago, there was a TV show about Moon Base Alpha You couldn't think about the physics of that too much because apparently the moon base was drifting away from Earth But anyway, we should have a Moon Base Alpha. The next step after the Apollo program would be to have a base on the Moon"

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Elon Musk: The real breakthrough SpaceX is chasing isn’t hype — it’s full reusability. No one in history has ever built a fully reusable rocket, and that’s why access to space is still insanely expensive — We’ve already landed Falcon 9 boosters over 500 times, but we still throw away the upper stage — and that alone costs as much as a small jet. Starship changes everything. When every part of a rocket comes back, space stops being exclusive and starts becoming scalable. Starship is the largest flying machine ever made — built for Mars, the Moon, and massive satellite deployment. But the real revolution isn’t where it goes… it’s that it comes back. Full reusability is the single biggest lever for lowering the cost of space in human history. Automation and AI matter — but without full reusability, space will always be expensive. Starship is designed to change the economics entirely. Prove full reusability, and the cost of reaching orbit drops by a factor of 100. That’s how Mars stops being a dream and starts being a plan.
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Elon Musk: The real breakthrough SpaceX is chasing isn’t hype — it’s full reusability. No one in history has ever built a fully reusable rocket, and that’s why access to space is still insanely expensive — We’ve already landed Falcon 9 boosters over 500 times, but we still throw away the upper stage — and that alone costs as much as a small jet. Starship changes everything. When every part of a rocket comes back, space stops being exclusive and starts becoming scalable. Starship is the largest flying machine ever made — built for Mars, the Moon, and massive satellite deployment. But the real revolution isn’t where it goes… it’s that it comes back. Full reusability is the single biggest lever for lowering the cost of space in human history. Automation and AI matter — but without full reusability, space will always be expensive. Starship is designed to change the economics entirely. Prove full reusability, and the cost of reaching orbit drops by a factor of 100. That’s how Mars stops being a dream and starts being a plan.

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