alt Hacker News>And while previous experiments like the DC-X existed, SpaceX absolutely gets credit for the first operational reusable rocket stage.
Not true. What about STS?
>And while previous experiments like the DC-X existed, SpaceX absolutely gets credit for the first operational reusable rocket stage.
Not true. What about STS?
Eh that's a spaceplane and solid rocket booster shells which I see as categorically different, and an absurd failure on a cost per kg basis.