Re: Does NASA save money reusing SRB's?

John Burch wrote:


One reason I have heard for reusing (or at least recovering) Shuttle SSBs is the opportunity for the engineers to see the condition of the boosters after their use and how well, or not, their design has performed.





There is considerable truth in that. And the sorta-converse is also true: one (minor) reason why GEMs aren't recovered, and no effort made to even try to fish one out, is because they *don't* want to see just how ratty the things look. As with the ET foam thing, the less you know, the less you have to explain.

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