The SpaceX Thread

(Reuters) - The third time appeared to be the charm for Elon Musk’s Starship rocket - until it wasn’t.

The latest heavy-duty launch vehicle prototype from SpaceX soared flawlessly into the sky in a high-altitude test blast-off on Wednesday from Boca Chica, Texas, then flew itself back to Earth to achieve the first upright landing for a Starship model.

But the triumph was short-lived. Listing slightly to one side as an automated fire-suppression system trained a stream of water on flames still burning at the base of the rocket, the spacecraft blew itself to pieces about eight minutes after touchdown.
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SpaceX Starship rocket prototype nails landing... then blows up

The third time appeared to be the charm for Elon Musk's Starship rocket - until it wasn't.
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I’ve heard it mooted that Elon Musk is buying up all the houses in Boca Chica to turn it into Star City around SpaceX for his employees. He is paying up to 3x the value of the properties. So far there is only one holdout – the woman (Mary? A space geek) who does the drone footage around Boca Chica.



It’s an excellent idea which concentrates the SpaceX talent close to work and allows different political systems, leadership and forms of government to be prototyped for Mars with a cooperative population. Boca Chica also has a soil type very friendly to the Boring Company. I can see synergies happening there for the SpaceX Star City (city of the future).
 
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