Comment by SeanLuke

> Christophe Bonnal of the launcher directorate at French space agency CNES, agrees. “If you reuse, you stop producing, depending on the level of reusability,” he says. “So you end up with a permanent prototype, and to keep costs down you need to have a high rate of production.”

I am not a rocket scientist. So someone please explain to me why this quote isn't the single stupidest thing I've read all day.