[PeaceTed]

I have said this for years. Starship will eventually go to orbit, it MIGHT go a few times to the Moon. It will lucky if it ever makes it to Mars.

More than happy to be proven wrong. I mean they are still progressing but it is just a case of figuring out how long their runway is (economics).

[avmich]

Can you provide your logic for this conclusion?

[imtringued]

Anyone who is paying attention knows that Starship is mostly going to be a launch vehicle for Starlink. It's very unlikely that the upper stage will ever support external payloads.

[Unroasted6154]

Why wouldn't they make it for external payload if they get the cost per kg lower than F9? Running starship only is going to be cheaper than running both rockets, except if the economics of starship are worse (in which case, it would not be used for starlink either).

[travisgriggs]

Cmon. Don’t kill my dream. I dream of Elon musk flying to Mars. And staying there.

[ubercore]

Oops. Earth's space connection to X just went down. We expect service to resume in about one martian lifetime.

[josefx]

He hasn't even been to orbit.

[4ggr0]

i would be sooooooo sad if we get a challenger #2 while sending musk up. depends on if he's the only one on board.

[kakacik]

... but alone. We don't want some Expanse-like scenario down the line with fascist part of mankind completely unhinged. Once he is over then colonize all you want.