A used Starship V1 booster (B12). V1 Starship boosters can now consistently do ascent all the way to MECO. If Starship had a simpler expendable upper stage (like Falcon 9), the V1 booster could've been doing Apollo-style Moon missions every month. Re-using the booster, and expending the upper stage.
But Starship isn't for flags and footprints, so more reusable upper stages will be blown up for testing, to get it to operation.
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"Elon was the big advocate of using only human senses for self driving cars. Humans drive based on sight and hearing, we have no LIDAR, so a machine should be able to do the same.
It worked."
It's also a great technology for a mass-produced droid army.
“the door is open”
That’s not the door, that’s the Crew Dragon’s fairing. The door is the one with the window.
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Elon's SpaceX Falcon 9 & Crew Dragon:
Axiom 4 crew enter the ISS from Crew Dragon Grace.
June 26, 2025.
Axiom-4 private astronauts:
Peggy Whitson, commander 🇺🇸
Shubhanshu Shukla, pilot 🇮🇳
Sławosz Uznański, mission specialist 🇵🇱
Tibor Kapu, mission specialist 🇭🇺
#Space #SpaceX #Falcon9 #CrewDragon #ISS #Axiom #Ax4 #Starship #ElonMusk
Elon's SpaceX Falcon 9 & Crew Dragon:
Crew Dragon Grace approaching ISS for docking, with Axiom-4 crew onboard.
#Space #SpaceX #Falcon9 #CrewDragon #ISS #Axiom #Ax4 #Starship #ElonMusk
To get rapidly reusable rocket stages, you have to do this over and over again to get the data.
"Oy vey, dis is too intimidating!"
"But, but the jews will buy the rocket industry."
They already did: Boeing, Lockheed, Northrup Grumman, and ULA.
Guess what? The jewish managers can't do rockets. They can barely operate obsolete expendanble rockets, they're getting beaten by obsolete Russian and Chinese expendable rockets.
Developing real reusable rockets requires giant explosions in testing. Too intimidating for those wedded to culture and political talking.
I posted on my other social media, paraphrasing:
What is Zohran Mamdani’s life expectancy, or long-term career prospects, when he opposes israel in NYC?