[rielfowler]

>Space-X says they hope to reuse maybe 75% of a booster. Boosters probably go back to the plant to be rebuilt, not to the pad to be launched again.

They plan to reuse the entire booster, only refuel will be is necessary.

[manigandham]

They only recover the first stage, which is about 3/5 of the rocket right now. Maybe they'll work on recovering the 2nd stage but they currently abandoned that due to viability and cost of recovery tech.

It's going to be very hard for anyone to create a perfectly usable rocket that all comes back for reuse, possibly never based on how cargo is sent up there in the first place.