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In December 2015, following the recovery of the [[Falcon 9 Flight 20|first stage from December 22 launch]], SpaceX projected that the first reflight of a recovered booster would likely occur in 2016, but not using the December 22 recovered stage.<ref name=bi20151225>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/experts-applaud-spacex-landing-cautious-about-outlook/ |title=Elon Musk's SpaceX already knows what it's going to do with the history-making rocket — but it's not what you think |author=Jessica Orwig |work=Business Insider |date=December 25, 2015 |access-date=December 25, 2015 |archive-date=September 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906023949/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/experts-applaud-spacex-landing-cautious-about-outlook/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
In September 2016, SpaceX announced that development was underway to extend the reusable flight hardware to second stages{{cn|date=December 2023}}, a more challenging engineering problem because the vehicle is travelling at [[Orbital speed#Tangential velocities at altitude|orbital velocity]]. The reusable technology was to have been extended to the 2016 designs of both the tanker and crewed spaceship upper stage variants as well as the first stage of the [[Interplanetary Transport System]],<ref name=nsf20160927>{{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=September 27, 2016 |access-date=October 16, 2016 |archive-date=July 13, 2019 |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=sn20141024>
{{cite news |last1=Foust |first1=Jeff |title=Next Falcon 9 Launch Could See First-stage Platform Landing |url=http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/42305next-falcon-9-launch-could-see-first-stage-platform-landing |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141025142556/http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/42305next-falcon-9-launch-could-see-first-stage-platform-landing |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2014 |access-date=October 25, 2014 |work=SpaceNews |date=October 25, 2014}}</ref><ref name=nsf20140307/>
and is considered paramount to the plans Elon Musk is championing to enable the [[Colonization of Mars|settlement of Mars]].<ref name=gq20151212>{{cite news |last1=Heath |first1=Chris |title=How Elon Musk Plans on Reinventing the World (and Mars) |url=https://www.gq.com/story/elon-musk-mars-spacex-tesla-interview |access-date=December 12, 2015 |work=GQ |date=December 12, 2015 |quote=''SpaceX exists to further [the vision of humans becoming multi-planetary] on several fronts: to develop the reusable rocket technology that would be needed to ferry large numbers of people, and large amounts of cargo, to Mars; ...'' |archive-date=December 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212142443/http://www.gq.com/story/elon-musk-mars-spacex-tesla-interview |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="spacex-itsvideo201609-09:20">
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