Editing Interplanetary spaceflight (section)

===Launch vehicle and spacecraft reusability===
The [[SpaceX Starship]] is designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, making use of the [[SpaceX reusable rocket|SpaceX reusable technology]] that was developed during 2011–2018 for [[Falcon 9]] and [[Falcon Heavy]] launch vehicles.<ref name=nsf20160927a>{{cite news |last=Bergin |first=Chris |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/09/spacex-reveals-mars-game-changer-colonization-plan/ |title=SpaceX reveals ITS Mars game changer via colonization plan |work=[[NASASpaceFlight.com]] |date=2016-09-27 |access-date=2016-09-27 |archive-date=2019-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713031720/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/09/spacex-reveals-mars-game-changer-colonization-plan/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=nsf20140307>{{cite news |last=Belluscio |first=Alejandro G. |title=SpaceX advances drive for Mars rocket via Raptor power |url=http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/03/spacex-advances-drive-mars-rocket-raptor-power/ |access-date=2014-03-07 |newspaper=NASAspaceflight.com |date=2014-03-07 |archive-date=2015-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911235533/http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/03/spacex-advances-drive-mars-rocket-raptor-power/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

SpaceX CEO [[Elon Musk]] estimates that the reusability capability alone, on both the launch vehicle and the spacecraft associated with the Starship will reduce overall system costs per tonne delivered to Mars by at least two [[orders of magnitude]] over what NASA had previously achieved.<ref name="spacex-itsvideo201609-09:20">
{{cite AV media |people=Elon Musk |date=27 September 2016 |title=Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species |medium=video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/H7Uyfqi_TE8| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|access-date=10 October 2016 |time=9:20–10:10 |location=Guadalajara, Mexico |publisher=SpaceX |quote=''So it is a bit tricky. Because we have to figure out how to improve the cost of the trips to Mars by five million percent ... translates to an improvement of approximately 4 1/2 orders of magnitude. These are the key elements that are needed in order to achieve a 4 1/2 order of magnitude improvement.  Most of the improvement would come from full reusability—somewhere between 2 and 2 1/2 orders of magnitude—and then the other 2 orders of magnitude would come from refilling in orbit, propellant production on Mars, and choosing the right propellant.'' }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name=spacex-itspresentation201609>
{{cite web |url=http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/mars_presentation.pdf |publisher=[[SpaceX]] |title=Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species |date=2016-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160928040332/http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/mars_presentation.pdf |archive-date=2016-09-28 |access-date=2016-09-29}}</ref>