Reusable Launch Vehicles

Reusable Rockets Don't Prove Themselves in One Flight, They Prove It in the Next One

One company recovered a booster this week and is already planning to fly it again. Another flew a rocket for the first time and had to blow it up mid-flight. On the scoreboard, that’s a win and a loss. But both companies are doing exactly what a young launch program is supposed to do: build something, fly it, find out what breaks, fix that specific thing, fly again.