<story><title>Starship’s second flight test</title><url>https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bboygravity</author><text>Can you give an example of 1 thing Elon said that hasn&amp;#x27;t become a reality and cannot become a reality in the next 10 years?&lt;p&gt;1 engineering or physics related thing. Deadlines don&amp;#x27;t count.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m waiting...</text></item><item><author>davely</author><text>&amp;gt; Elon said in 2020…&lt;p&gt;To be fair, Elon has said _a lot_ of things about his various projects and not all of them are based in reality.</text></item><item><author>maxlin</author><text>Starship is designed with way faster turnaround time. Falcon 9 had optional reuse, while Starship aims to be the 747 of space access.&lt;p&gt;Elon said in 2020:
&amp;gt; Starship is being designed to be relaunched an hour after landing, with zero nominal work&lt;p&gt;Now while that might take some time to reach, before that the pad itself is likely going to be capable of many launches every day given there&amp;#x27;s more ships. Starships seems to be made to be way more economical to manufacture per-ship than the shuttles or Saturns so I don&amp;#x27;t see a bottleneck in that.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Flying to orbit and back multiple times in a day like an airliner.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Probably not. It takes 85 days, on average, to turn a Falcon 9 around.</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>If Starship meets its reusability goals it&amp;#x27;s going to be absolutely nuts. Flying to orbit and back multiple times in a day like an airliner or something, carrying more than the entire habitable volume of ISS every time. It&amp;#x27;s impossible to overstate how much that would change access to space, and how much of an advantage it would give SpaceX over its competitors  (even other nations).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheLoafOfBread</author><text>Everything Hyperloop related is not happening.</text></comment>
<story><title>Starship’s second flight test</title><url>https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bboygravity</author><text>Can you give an example of 1 thing Elon said that hasn&amp;#x27;t become a reality and cannot become a reality in the next 10 years?&lt;p&gt;1 engineering or physics related thing. Deadlines don&amp;#x27;t count.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m waiting...</text></item><item><author>davely</author><text>&amp;gt; Elon said in 2020…&lt;p&gt;To be fair, Elon has said _a lot_ of things about his various projects and not all of them are based in reality.</text></item><item><author>maxlin</author><text>Starship is designed with way faster turnaround time. Falcon 9 had optional reuse, while Starship aims to be the 747 of space access.&lt;p&gt;Elon said in 2020:
&amp;gt; Starship is being designed to be relaunched an hour after landing, with zero nominal work&lt;p&gt;Now while that might take some time to reach, before that the pad itself is likely going to be capable of many launches every day given there&amp;#x27;s more ships. Starships seems to be made to be way more economical to manufacture per-ship than the shuttles or Saturns so I don&amp;#x27;t see a bottleneck in that.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Flying to orbit and back multiple times in a day like an airliner.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Probably not. It takes 85 days, on average, to turn a Falcon 9 around.</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>If Starship meets its reusability goals it&amp;#x27;s going to be absolutely nuts. Flying to orbit and back multiple times in a day like an airliner or something, carrying more than the entire habitable volume of ISS every time. It&amp;#x27;s impossible to overstate how much that would change access to space, and how much of an advantage it would give SpaceX over its competitors  (even other nations).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martin8412</author><text>Coast to coast self-driving by late 2017.</text></comment>