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The blessed machine is immortal. The flesh is weak, it rots and it fails. The machine is immortal

>>15353613
>Chinese spaceplane and astra rocket 4 will eat musk's lunch
They have to show up first before they can be handed a menu

>>12786849
This is a bare bones airframe with only 3 engines. It sticking the landing was incredibly important, it succumbing to a fire after landing is not important

>>12727600
What’s crazy is that there’s a good chance Perseverance will be active when the first humans touch down on Mars.

>>12707596
>unfortunately starship will kill a bunch of people on mars.
>my criticism with SpaceX is starship.
I disagree
>go tell someone who gives a shit.
I come here to discuss starship, as is the topic of this thread.
We are discussing starship, its early in its development and so discussing the accomplishments of their previous projects is necessary. They have proven that they know how to make a spacecraft that meets the goals they have for starship, that means their starship design comes from a position of experience. That makes the design much more likely to succeed.

>>12683881
>When I said goodbye to SN8 I felt like a proud parent watching your kid go off to college. When I say goodbye to this Starship I feel like a parent of centuries’ past saying “farewell” as his child embarks for the new world. To some people that may sound like I’m stretching a point. A starship is not a child it’s a machine and a machine doesn’t have a soul. We may yell at our toasters and give names to our cars but at the end a Starship is just a collection of wires and circuits and stainless steel. I don’t know. I think each Starship does have a soul. It’s the soul of all the people who built her. Designed her. First dreamed of her.

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>>12655235
Shuttle boosters were reused a lot it’s just they mixed and matched the components around so it wasn’t just one booster flying ten times it was more like one segment flying five times being mated to another segment which flew a dozen times. Fun fact, STS-135 flew with boosters that had components from STS-1

>>12642944
Do we know what testing regime the booster will undergo? It seems like 150-1000 meters is the limit for vertical hop testing (as seen with F9).

Is this the closest thing to a rocket God?