SpaceX just tested the first stage Super Heavy booster and its new flame deflector system for protecting the launch pad from the destruction experienced during the May Starship orbital test flight. This is in preparation for another Starship flight test. In between touting a fight with Mark Zuckerberg and promising to pay legal bills, Elon Musk has said he believes “we have ~50% probability of reaching orbital velocity, however even getting to stage separation would be a win.”
The world s richest man has a mission to make humanity a multi-planetary species, through a colony on Mars. Elon Musk hopes to have the first humans on Mars within a decade as a worst case scenario
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