Starship / Super Heavy?

[piece-itpete]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Eg...&start_radio=1

Remember how we used to feel that Earths' problems seemed small when looking down on our blue marble from space?

In the grand scheme of things it's true. The Starship is the biggest rocket ever built and carries our future dreams with it. Artemis (the next manned moon mission scheduled landing 2027 however unlikely) - then hopefully Mars.

But more 'down to Earth' (bam!) just having this huge reusable rocket will bring the cost to take stuff to orbit. By a lot.

Why should anyone care? Well let me tell you!

If we want to sustain our standard of living and
If we want to keep our current global population and
If we'd like to keep raising the standard of living for the other less fortunate places on Earth and
If we'd like to not trash the planet even more than we already have,

Then we NEED to move heavy industry to space. This is no pipe dream. Picture a new car in 1967. We went to the moon. Now, look at your current cell phone.

Even if we can't right now we need to work towards it.

'Musk is a big meanie!' - ok. Thanks Wernher von Braun for the US's moon shot :hmm:

So that's that. If you still think we're at corded rotary phone levels, and/or are curious about our current state of rocket tech, I rec Marcus House.

There's many UK people in the space reporting area for some reason but I like him best. I suggest this vid (first 15 min is all Starship)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKMIoE-5kM

A couple takeaways from that video. SpaceX is currently building EIGHT of the Starships (the top part of the superheavy rocket). They aren't just testing - they are building them en mass. Think about that (it's amazing). The plan is, these things will be going up all the time (overall SpaceX has already done over 100 launches this year).

It mentions that. since this is the last time this particular rocket will be used, they are going to increase the stress on it, test it in various ways. This basically means testing to possible destruction (or not if they're really lucky). So a big Earschplittenloudenboomer is likely. But this isn't (total) failure.

Also, it shows the official reasons of previous failures (NASA 'approved').

Please hope for its success. It's planned to launch again tonight at 7:30 EST.

Pete