@elonmusk: Looks like we will probably catch the ship with the tower in a few months. If there had been a tower out to sea where w…
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Elon Musk announces that SpaceX will likely catch the Starship with the tower in a few months and expects the first reflight by the end of the year, highlighting its significance for human space exploration.
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Looks like we will probably catch the ship with the tower in a few months. If there had been a tower out to sea where we practiced landing the ship, it would have been caught.
First reflight of the ship will be either end of this year or early next. That will be a fork in the road of history for consciousness reaching the stars.
Dustin (@r0ck3t23): Elon Musk admitted he is not sure this one is possible.
Musk: “This absorbs more of my mental energy than probably any other single thing. But it is so preposterously difficult that there are times where I wonder whether we can actually do this.”
He does not talk like this.
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