#SPACEX: 28 TIMES FALCON 9, BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I on the World. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:07.4 | Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman is here to celebrate the number 28, 28, 28. |
| 0:13.9 | Bob, what is 28? |
| 0:15.6 | Good evening to you. |
| 0:16.9 | Good evening. |
| 0:17.4 | I didn't know this was Sesame Street. |
| 0:19.6 | But anyway, 28 refers to the 28th time as SpaceX has launched a first stage. |
| 0:26.8 | It's a record. |
| 0:27.9 | Over the weekend, SpaceX had two different days completed two different launches. |
| 0:33.6 | That's four launches, put up, what is it,, more than 100 Starlink satellites of those four launches. |
| 0:40.9 | And every single one of those launches reuse the first stage. |
| 0:43.9 | But one of those launches reuse the first stage for the 28th time. |
| 0:48.6 | That is a record to most of the any first stage is done. |
| 0:52.0 | They keep making setting these records, so they're going to keep setting them. |
| 0:54.9 | This particular record ties Columbia, the spatial or Columbia, for the number of reuses. |
| 1:01.1 | What's interesting is to Columbia, 22 years to complete those 28 flights, the last of which being its destruction when it failed coming back to Earth. |
| 1:11.4 | This particular booster, though, didn't take 22 years. |
| 1:14.1 | It took less than four years to do the same number of flights. |
| 1:17.3 | And it's still viable. |
| 1:18.6 | It's going to be reused again. |
| 1:20.2 | And there's a really solid chance that, along with several other Falcon and Nine first stages, |
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