jeff findley wrote:
Expendables didn't "get" popular. The only entity trying to reuse
launch vehicles is NASA (and perhaps the carrier planes used by
Pegasus), and they've had a very poor record of reducing costs by
using a "reusable" vehicle.

When a single instance can change your figure of merit significantly,
that means your figure of merit is not a reliable guide. This is true
whether analyzing safety statistics as in determining which approach
is better than another.

Or to put it simply; Once again, your argument can be reduced to
'Apollo was cool, Soyuz is cool, the Shuttle sucks. Therefore all
capsules are cool and all winged vehicles suck.'

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