Musk reposted an XFreeze post: Falcon 9 single-year launch count exceeds the space shuttle program's entire history

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Musk reposted on X a post published by XFreeze comparing Falcon 9 with the space shuttle program.

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• Musk reposted XFreeze's post, which said Falcon 9 carried out 165 launches in the single year 2025, exceeding the total of all 135 missions of the space shuttle program from 1981 to 2011.
• The post also mentioned that Falcon 9's launch count that year exceeded the combined total of all other orbital launch vehicles that year; at the space shuttle's historical average launch pace, completing 165 missions would take about 37 years.
• The post compared hardware reuse: the space shuttle Discovery flew 39 times in about 27 years, while Falcon 9 booster B1067 flew 37 times in more than 5 years, and B1067 first flew in June 3, 2021.

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Source: Elon Musk / X · 10-04 02:39 (Beijing time)

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