@SpaceX has reused ~1,894 Merlin rocket engines
1/ With the 212th landing of a #Falcon9 booster during the @hughesconnects #FalconHeavy Jupiter 3 mission,
@SpaceX has reused or saved nearly 1,894 #MerlinEngine rocket engines (some were swapped out)
Read about the SpaceX Merlin engine here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Merlin
2/ That’s astonishing and encouraging for the long imagined #spacefaring #multiplanet future of humanity.
Image courtesy of SpaceX - spacex.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-02-14)
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