SpaceX
Everything is rosy for Elon Musk‘s spaceship Starship, except for the damn landing, but somehow its engineers hold a remarkably positive outlook.
SpaceX’s latest Starship unmanned test flight – designed to transport cargo and people to the Moon and Mars – ends on Tuesday in the same way as in December … with a fireball.
We’ll say this … the reusable capsule looked beautiful on the way up … but it’s that return flight that’s getting tricky. It was supposed to land vertically, but instead it came down diagonally and burst into flames.
Bummer right? Not at mission control, where the mushroom cloud did not stop an engineer from pulling out his pompoms to cheer the team up.
While the smoke is still rising, he roars: “Another amazing test flight” … describes everything going right and then whistles: “We just have to work a little on the landing.”
20/9/20
SpaceX
There’s a good reason for Captain Obvious to be so optimistic. Elon predicted that Starship’s initial test flight would likely land, and the main goal is to collect data. See? Task completed !!!
Not to rain on someone’s parade, but each Starship costs about $ 40 million. Fairly expensive experiment.