Angry Local Reporter

Next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away

Ten years ago when Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Model 3 critics said it was impossible to make an EV profitably for $35,000. It wasn’t easy… but today you can buy a Model 3 that is way better than what was unveiled 10 years ago for just $27,000 in 2016 dollars and Tesla has been profitable for many years. The Tesla team didn’t just hit their goal. They smashed through it. Cheers to the mass market EV that started it all. Now, Tesla begins production of the Model 3 which will start at just $18,306 in 2016 dollars and have no steering wheel or pedals.

The Tesla Cybercab features body panels made from polyurethane plastic, with the color injected directly during the molding process. This eliminates the need for a traditional paint shop in production. For repairs, damaged panels are simply replaced according to Lars, VP of Vehicle Engineering.

There is no food in the fridge. The garage where I slept is on the right. The shower only has one towel so I left it for Elon. That was okay with me. When I was a child, I’d spend three weeks in the Kalahari Desert without showering. Many times. There was no water. I think my parents prepared me for this luxury.🤣

SpaceX’s Cybertruck fleet is HUUUGE, and they’re still taking delivery of more. They’re replacing all their old gas work trucks at Starbase.

More Cybertrucks being delivered to Starbase! The more the better!

SpaceX writes “Gulf of America” in press release. I read verbatim. People get very upset and unsubscribe. And let me know this is why. Isn’t a journalist supposed to quote statements “word for word”? Very annoying to try and do what’s correct and get punished

Lockheed Martin just released a beautiful animation of Starship HLS docking with Orion.

Tesla's Robotaxi rides are smooth, confident and human-like. If you've used FSD V13.2.9, it will feel very familiar. While I know this is just day one, and an early access program, it's hard not to feel that Tesla has nailed it with their approach to autonomy. It's scalable.

SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely, then crewed missions are possible in four years. If we encounter challenges, then the crewed missions will be postponed another two years. It is only possible to travel from Earth to Mars every two years, when the planets are aligned. This increases the difficulty of the task, but also serves to immunize Mars from many catastrophic events on Earth. No matter what happens with landing success, SpaceX will increase the number of spaceships traveling to Mars exponentially with every transit opportunity. We want to enable anyone who wants to be a space traveler to go to Mars! That means you or your family or friends – anyone who dreams of great adventure. Eventually, there will be thousands of Starships going to Mars and it will a glorious sight to see! Can you imagine? Wow. The fundamental existential question is whether humanity becomes sustainably multiplanetary before something happens on Earth to prevent that, for example nuclear war, a supervirus or population collapse that weakens civilization to the point where it loses the ability to send supply ships to Mars. One of my biggest concerns right now is that the Starship program is being smothered by a mountain of government bureaucracy that grows every year. This stifling red tape is affecting all large projects in America, which is why, for example, California has spent ~$7 billion dollars and several years on high-speed rail, but only has a 1600 ft section of concrete to show for it! While I have many concerns about a potential Kamala regime, my absolute showstopper is that the bureaucracy currently choking America to death is guaranteed to grow under a Democratic Party administration. This would destroy the Mars program and doom humanity. It cannot happen. Your help would be much appreciated. This is a fork, maybe the fork, in the road of human destiny.

Anybody else have a feeling this just means a going-out-of-business fire sale of the remaining v2 stock? Get the data you can with low expectations and work for long term fixes on v3? "Next 3 flights" is a specific number for a reason

At least this loss of ship and RUD was MUCH later into flight than with Flight 7 & 8!!!

I’m not gonna name names but these pessimists and starship rabble rousers really piss me off Don’t pretend to be pro SpaceX if you are constantly doubting and hating on the program

Quote from former NASA flight director Paul Hill at today's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel public meeting: "We had an informative discussion with the Commercial Crew Program, the details of most of which are not publicly releasable." Oh.