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That was actually his plan in the early days of SpaceX. But the missiles were too expensive, so they started from scratch.

But a lot of commercial launchers are incremental improvements on old designs. The Delta family is based on the Thor ICBM.

Soyuz was first launched in 1966, and it's the only way to get humans to the ISS at the moment.



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