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SpaceX poised to break Space Shuttle pad record with Falcon 9 Starlink mission (spaceflightnow.com)
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SpaceX will hit 83 orbital launches from its KSC pad. That’s one more than the 82 shuttle launches that took place over the 30-year history of that program.

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[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Good point, a better comparison would be to Dragon, or (eventually) Starship. Still a ways to go on those, as the most flown Dragon (C206 Endeavour) is only on its 5th flight.