Le Gall: Premature To Judge SpaceX Reusable-launch Efforts

SpaceX is likely to succeed soon in its plan to fly back a Falcon 9 first stage for eventual reuse, but that doesn’t mean the California company is on the verge of disrupting the space launch industry, according to Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of France’s Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)...

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