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Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets
Y Combinator Startup Podcast · 2026-01-08 · 16 min
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Stoke Space is racing to build the world's first fully reusable rockets that can launch, survive reentry, and fly again and again. In this episode of Hard Tech, YC’s Aaron Epstein sits down with Stoke Space co-founders Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman to find out why they chose to take on one of the hardest problems in rocket science, how an obsession with efficiency gives them an edge, and what full reusability could unlock for the future of spaceflight. Apply to Y Combinator: Work at a startup:
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