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Falcon 9 reaches a flight rate 30 times higher than shuttle at 1/100th the cost
The Falcon 9 rocket is truly delivering on the promise of rapid, reusable launch.
SpaceX recently hit some notable milestones with its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, and even in the full context of history, the performance of the vehicle is pretty incredible. If SpaceX achieves its goal of 15 additional Falcon 9 launches this month, it would bring the company's total this year to 134 flights. However, there is some historical significance in the fact that the Falcon rocket may fly as many missions in a single year as the space shuttle did during its lifetime.
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