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Yeah but salt water makes it about as difficult as building from scratch.


Then why didn't they stop?


> why didn't they stop?

They did [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_retirement


Beyond the fact that they eventually did quit, the shuttle program was the public face of the US space program, and part of having more than one way to launch military stuff.


The military rapidly gave up on the Shuttle after the first accident. No shuttle was ever launched from the pad on the west coast at Vandenberg (plenty of F9s have been, though.)




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