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[i]We just had an incredible day today. The first reflight of an orbital class booster did its mission perfectly, dropped off the second stage, came back and landed on the drone ship, right in the bullseye. It is an amazing day I think for space as a whole for the space industry. It means you can fly and refly an orbit-class booster, which is the most expensive part of the rocket. This is going to be ultimately a huge revolution in spaceflight. It is the difference between if you had airplanes where you threw away an airplane after every flight, versus you could use them multiple times. So it has been 15 years to get to this point, it took us a long time. A lot of difficult steps along the way, but I am just incredibly proud of the SpaceX team for being able to achieve this incredible milestone in the history of space. Yeah, I am sort of at a loss for words but it really is a great day, not just for SpaceX but for the space industry as a whole in proving that something could be done that many people said was impossible.[/i]
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