“Uncommon Thinkers: Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa explores an innovative route to rocket reusability” – GeekWire

November 26, 2024 –  ALAN BOYLE / GeekWire –

Like two of the world’s best-known billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa is passionate about making spaceships as reusable as airplanes.

“Part of the big thesis of the company is, how do you build a fully, rapidly reusable space vehicle that goes to space, performs a function, comes back and turns around and flies again,” he says. “That’s not a new vision. We’ve been dreaming about fully reusable spacecraft since the ’50s and ’60s, and probably before that. So the big question is, how do you do it?”

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