Work on Starship continues

There wasn't a blog post on this very recently, so consider this a bit of a change of pace.

The news on the political scene is pretty dicey, but there are some good things. Maybe some should be said about that too. One really good thing that is just below the radar of being top of line is the work SpaceX is doing.

This is a significant development. That's provided that nothing happens to spoil it all. You know that is always a possibility. But even if something messes it up for Elon Musk, he has already achieved something note-worthy. He has proven that the first stage can be made to be resusable. This advance lowers the cost of getting to orbit. Other entities will be doing similar things, and there is no reason to believe that a fully resuable spacecraft can be made, if not now, then in the near future.

The Space Shuttle was only partly reusable. But it did show that you can get to space with a fully reusable orbiter. The work that Musk is doing has already demonstrated the other half. What he is doing now with Starship is making a fully integrated and reusable system that will revolutionize access to space. The launch tower may well be a missing link that will make it a fast turnaround system. It is an amazing sight.

Work at the Boca Chica facility is proceeding at a breakneck pace. Perhaps it would be wise to proceed with a bit more caution, but Musk is hellbent to leather to get his vision accomplished. For the good of us all, I sure hope he succeeds. We need some good news.