Elon Musk

So it's like if this was a video game, it's set to like...

maximum difficulty but not impossible okay um so that's that's what we have um here so it's it's not as though um others have uh ignored the concept of reusability they've just uh concluded that it was too difficult to achieve and we've been working at on this for a long time uh at at SpaceX um and um

You know, I'm the chief engineer of the company, although I should say that we're an extremely talented engineering team.

I think we've got the best rocket engineering team that has ever been assembled.

It's an honor to work with such incredible people.

So it's fair to say that we have not yet succeeded in achieving full reusability, but we at last have a rocket where full reusability is possible.

And I think we'll achieve it next year.

So...

That's a really big deal.

And the reason that's such a big deal is that full reusability drops the cost of access to space by 100%.

Maybe even more than 100, actually.

So it could be like 1,000.

You can think of it like any mode of transport.

Like imagine if aircraft were not reusable.

Like you flew somewhere, you have to throw the plane out.

Like imagine if – like the way conventional rockets work, it would be like if you had an airplane.

And instead of landing at your destination, you parachute out.

and the plane crashes somewhere, and you land in a parachute at your destination.

That would be a very expensive trip.

And you'd need another plane to get back.