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by gus_massa 503 days ago
It used too many cutting edge technologies, to "reuse" the ship it was necessary to do a complete refurbish [1]. It was closer to a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

[1] More details in the Feynman's appendix https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3570/1/Feynman.pdf