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by ceejayoz 18 days ago
> Also, fuel is just part of the cost of a rocket.

Sure. But if you blew up a 747 at the end of every trip, it'd be a small part of the total cost, not a major part.

Starship's reusability makes it very clearly not like the other examples you cite, yeah? There are lots of scenarios where the US government would pay, say, $10M to deliver a payload somewhere fast, but not $250M.