> do you really expect the booster to be reusable in a matter of hours? on their first recovery of the booster, which didn't use a reentry burn to reduce speed at any point before the final landing burn, the outer engine bells got warped by the heating, and there was a copv rupture under one of the chines. if they find a way to coat the engines to prevent this, or prechill all the engines including the outside ones during the burn in there's no reason they couldn't drop the booster to the launch mount, hook the qd back up and start refueling as soon as the top tanker is ready and attached. the entire point of the super heavy booster executing rtls profiles is to have it caught where it will launch from in an hour to facilitate boosting another payload to leo. this has been the plan since the initial design phase of starship. > also, the faa will never allow that. why wouldn't they?
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