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I'm not a science guy, but isn't fuel efficiency like the most central issue of rocket science?
Anything to improve specific impulse. Making the fuel better, optimizing combustion, nozzle geometry, etc etc. This is all way more important than basically any other aspect of a rocket, as far as making the rocket go from point A to point B is concerned.
It's so much the central issue of rocket science that science nerds call it "the tyranny of the rocket equation"
It is