Elon Musk: “The fundamental breakthrough we're aiming for at SpaceX is a…”

“What's next? Like, now that you can do that, you can catch rockets. What's like, the ultimate expression of rocket technology? Like what, what comes after this? Well, I mean, The fundamental breakthrough we're aiming for at SpaceX is a fully and rapidly reusable orbital rocket where both stages are fully and rapidly reusable. With our Falcon rocket, we are able to reuse the main stage and, and the nose cone, but we're not able to reuse the upper stage.” (11:28–11:38)

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