Elon Musk: “Nobody has ever made a fully reusable orbital rocket.”

“Yeah, I mean, I'd say that there's pretty much any project I can think of would be easier than this. And that's why no one has made a rapidly reusable Nobody has ever made a fully reusable orbital rocket. It's a very hard problem. Many smart people have tried before, very smart people with immense resources and they failed. And we haven't succeeded yet.” (2:07:06–2:07:10)

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