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  > ...when you plan to reuse booster rockets and shuttles on future missions.

Shuttles? I'm aware of the general term shuttle as a vehicle for going back and forth, but here I'm certain that the better term would be craft, capsule, or Dragon. Certainly not shuttle.

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A space shuttle is by definition a reusable spacecraft that carries people and cargo between Earth and space.

You mean the shuttle has been replaced by something newer and hence is an obsolete word?

No, I mean that they are talking about "boosters and ___" therefore ___ refers to a component, not the system as a whole. The term shuttle might refer to the whole system that is needed to shuttle people up and down, but the terms that fit the structure "boosters and ___" are craft, capsule, Dragon, maybe a few others, but not shuttle.

Doubly so when that is not a term that SpaceX uses to refer to any component or system.

Does that include the Starship?

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