@SpaceKoala In his 1948 novel 'Project Mars' he wrote about a 10 ship expedition to Mars requiring upwards of 1000 flights to build, supply and fuel those ships. "The undertaking is on a scale that would never happen in the real world". Doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore...
Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 → https://t.co/2gZQUxS6mm
Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket
@CWaters62@ron_eisele Because they were developed from bombers. It was cheaper to take an existing bomber design, in this case the Tu-16, and convert it into an airliner. In most cases a navigator sat there
✈️ Quite unique to access a FAL like this. KLM's A350-900 will stay here for a few more days, so @NunoSeletti and @cliper31 get ready!
Via @airwaysmagazine