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		Dalewyn on Dec 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Built the Saturn V (2017) Space Shuttle (and now SLS) SRBs always dropped into the ocean for recovery after the fact.

mikepurvis on Dec 18, 2024 [–]

I think it’s actually a bit more nuanced than that, see:

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/45894

Basically the SRB had multiple modules and some were more reusable than others, so some got recovered and refurbished a lot more.

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