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Old March 22nd 19, 07:02 AM posted to sci.space.policy
William Elliot[_4_]
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Default SpaceX Destroys Tooling

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019, Fred J. McCall wrote:

I've seen from several sources that SpaceX has apparently junked all
their fabrication tools for composite structures (at a cost of tens of
millions of dollars). Apparently betting the ranch on the new steel
construction plan with no future path to switch to composites.


Why didn't they just mothball the composite tools?