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Old December 9th 10, 12:10 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
Alan Erskine[_3_]
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Default Falcon 9 - First stage to be recovered!

On 9/12/2010 9:06 PM, Brian Gaff wrote:
I thought the whole problem with first stage reuse was the ingress of salt
water into the mechanisms etc. Its a nice idea but might it not cost more
than a new one?
Brian


Perhaps water recovery's only for the prototype flights and land
recovery will be for operational use? Remember Kistler's K1?