Starship is designed to achieve reflight of its rocket booster ultimately within an hour after liftoff."
The Starship team's greatest strength remains in SpaceX signature first-stage recovery technology pioneered with the Falcon rockets, but the development of the second stage has a long way to go,
I know it sounds insane,
No rocket before this has had the potential to extend life to another planet,
I have little doubt that it's going to be the workhorse that will bring humans back to the moon and Mars,
It's not just a cool rocket project, but literally it has the potential to change the fate of humanity,
The tower has caught the rocket!!
Big step towards making life multiplanetary was made today."
Because of lost tiles … the forward flaps were so melted it was like trying to control it with little skeleton hands,
We’re not breaking physics, so success is one of the possible outcomes here.”
This is absolutely insane!”
By continuing to push our hardware in a flight environment, and doing so as safely and frequently as possible, ... we’ll rapidly bring Starship online and revolutionize humanity’s ability to access space."
Are you kidding me?”
He's trying to position himself for minimal regulatory interference with SpaceX once Donald Trump becomes president,
Even in this day and age, what we just saw is magic,
Folks, this is a day for the engineering history books,