At Starbase, @ElonMusk provided an update on the company’s plans to send humanity to Mars, the best destination to begin making life multiplanetary

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Incredible view of Earth and the International Space Station captured from the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour capsule by Sultan Al Neyadi.

Starship history thread:

The story of Starship began in 2012 when Elon Musk announced the Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT). It would be capable of launching up to 200t to LEO. The rocket was supposed to have 3 cores with a diameter of >10m, each with 9 engines.

Elon Musk

Let’s go 🚀

Thread of the most epic images and videos from SpaceX Starship's launches 🧵

Hot. Congratulations to the Starship team for this (And Starlink for the broadcast).

To the moon!

(Currently regretting putting this telemetry on the right)

You must be willing to crash and burn for what you love.

This is a video taken from the STS-41B post flight presentation showing Bruce McCandless leaving the orbiter's payload bay and going out on orbit with the MMU on February 7, 1984

*Top 10 coolest planes that got cancelled*

Scope:
Must have reached at least prototype phase
Cancelled, not just losing in competition

Not in much order. Thread.🧵

1. Northrop YB-35

This video pans across 4 images captured with the right Mastcam-Z camera on NASA's Perseverance rover on February 6, 2024 (mission sol 1054), stitched together and adjusted to natural color. The sound is an actual recording of wind on Mars made by the rover on February 22, 2021.

This is your chance to join the creative team helping to make humanity multiplanetary at SpaceX.

Apply on the site if interested. Good luck 🖖🏻
boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/71…)