Elon’s latest grain silo went full Kerbal, spinning and all.
Stage Separation Failure supposedly, but frankly it was looking bad long before that.
The news is spinning this as a huge step. You know we had a space SHUTTLE, right?
It’s much better than the Space Shuttle, at least on paper. The space shuttle as finally conceived was a horrible kludge of what was initially a simple, small space truck.
If/when Starship actually flies, it’d be the first step forward in super-heavy lift rocketry since the SaturnV/N1 was cancelled. Excepting the stand-alone Energia that never flew.
Soviets had automated more advanced shuttles, and they were abondoned after the fall. I’m also suprised Putin didn’t revive the program.