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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

SpaceX, in a perfect world, just wants to be the railroad to facilitate others who want to build stations, bases, mining, recycling, etc.

As far as the greenness of rockets, recycling would be 5th in the 5 R's:

Refuse: refuse to use wasteful rockets? I don't really know how to apply this one.
Reduce: I suppose rideshares and vehicles with multiple hosted payloads are good
Reuse: See: SpaceX
Repurpose: Wet workshops?
Recycle: energy intensive and would need tons of infrastructure to process and use on orbit