SpaceX Looks Ahead To Next Starship-Super Heavy Flight Test

Starship-Super Heavy

Starship-Super Heavy

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SpaceX is not particularly disturbed if a flight test ends with an unplanned destructive loss of the vehicle. “Safe failure and rapid learning are often the fastest path to successful development,” notes former NASA human spaceflight chief William Gerstenmaier, now overseeing build and flight...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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