Elon Musk: “It can drop the cost of going cost per ton to the surface of…”

“It's like 100 times cheaper by some metrics. It's a thousand times cheaper. And then when you factor in orbital refilling, so you refill on orbit, It can drop the cost of going cost per ton to the surface of Mars by a factor of 10,000. Whoa. Yeah. So what has to improve in order to make it reusable? Well, there's some like, we're pretty close to being able to rapidly reuse the booster for starship.” (12:58–13:07)

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