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We need to achieve lower cost to orbit and high reliability operations, and this generally implies re-usable technologies.

Leroy Chiao Seeks Your Input - NASA Watch 2009

Also, too many don't understand how expensive it will be to develop a new, re-usable, L. E.O.-and-return spaceplane of any scale.

Ares I Parachutes Test Successful - NASA Watch 2009

In a proper re-usable orbiter the landing rockets are the escape rockets.

Getting To Know Max - NASA Watch 2009

If not for the cross range requirement for polar orbits, which of course was never employed, Maxim Faget's alternative, the DC-3, a fully re-usable 2 stage vehicle would likely have been built.

Candid Comments on the Constellation Program - NASA Watch 2009

NASA must work with private industry to allow creation of re-usable launch vehicles, both vertically and air launched, for small, medium and very large (HLV - 100 tons or more) payloads.

NAS Seeks Public Input on Space Goals - NASA Watch 2009

SECOND: Construction of an integrated space transport Cis-lunar infrastructure in space (bases, fuel depots, crew refuges, etc.), with fully re-usable earth to moon and back ferries and lunar landers (BEFORE crews return to the moon).

NAS Seeks Public Input on Space Goals - NASA Watch 2009

The shuttle, on the other hand, has re-usable components that must be maintained over a lifespan that can be measured in decades.

ISS About to Have a Crew of Six With Soyuz-TMA 15 Launch - NASA Watch 2009

As I hauled Lana, my purse and the re-usable shopping bags into the store, I noticed another mom doing the very same thing.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

About 10 years ago, I heard that building a re-usable crew launcher system would cost $30 Billion (if the government built it), and that it would take too long, so they finally decided to build an expendable booster instead.

New NASA Admin Rumors - NASA Watch 2009

He also supports the permanent, re-usable Cis-lunar Space Transport architecture which I called for in my chapter in Rick Tumlinson's "Return to the Moon" and subsequent articles.

NAS Seeks Public Input on Space Goals - NASA Watch 2009