Elon Musk “SpaceX Starship program is hardest problem”.
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“Starship is a hard, hard, hard, hard project”
“Starship “absorbs more of my mental energy than probably any other single thing. But it is so preposterously difficult, that there are times where I wonder whether we can actually do this.”
Well, keep in mind that Elon Musk has a huge IQ lying between 150 – 155.
He is measurably, scientifically, clinically, and demonstrably the smartest person in any room anywhere. He can tell you the square root of your Amex card number at a glance. He can tell you, I don’t know – the square root of zinc. He has mild Asperger’s, which prevents him from snagging on details and talking himself out of trying new things.
Wow, he’s a perfect storm who comes from about as middle-class a family as was possible in the late 20th century.
So why? What makes Starship so hard?
Find out everything about this in today’s episode of Alpha Tech:
Imagine a rocket that could launch and land 1,000 times a year with the reliability of an airplane. Sound unbelievable? That’s what Elon Musk is touting as Starship.
Its lifting capacity of 100,000 kilograms is more than any rocket currently in operation, while the whole system is designed to be reusable – making frequent and plentiful trips to and from space. It will launch atop a large booster called Super Heavy, measuring 70 meters tall.
Also designed to be reusable, and sporting 33 of the company’s new Raptor engines compared to the six found on Starship, Super Heavy will be the backbone of getting Starship and its crew or cargo on a journey to another world. Together, the two represent a launch vehicle that’s huge both in size and ambition.
Elon Musk “SpaceX Starship program is hardest problem”.
