Elon Musk: “No one's ever made a fully reusable orbital heat shield.”

“Well, for full reusability of the ship, there's still a lot of work that remains on the heat shield. So No one's ever made a fully reusable orbital heat shield. like the shuttle heat shield had to go through nine months of repair after every flight. Right. So no one has ever made a fully reusable orbital heat shield.” (24:44–24:48)

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