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Mainly production costs. Take the Apollo versus Space-shuttle as an example... In the Apollo design, each 'stage' of the rocket was simply jettisoned to burn up in the atmosphere once it was 'spent'. With the Shuttle, the only non re-usable part was the main external fuel tank. The solid rocket boosters returned to earth by parachute, the main shuttle vehicle landed like an aeroplane would (instead of an oceanic 'splash-down' as the Apollo crafts used to do). The external fuel tank, once jettisoned, burned up in the atmosphere.

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