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Falcon 9 vs Space Shuttle, all launches in one chart. F9 is on track to launch more times in 2025 alone than the Space Shuttle has in its history. Hard to overstate how successful SpaceX’s approach to reusability has been.
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We tend to consider Falcon 9 as an aging & reliable legacy launcher, and it makes sense: it’s launched over 500 times in the past 15 years. But it’s easy to forget that it is still the most advanced operational launcher in the world, and the *only one* capable of booster reuse.