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SpaceX Starship Launch Date Revealed By NASA + Tesla Workers Union in Buffalo, NY · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Welcome back to the Elon Musk podcast.
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  I'm your host, William Walden. And on this episode, we're going
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  to be talking about the Buffalo, New York, Tesla workers union.
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  And we're also going to be talking about the SpaceX
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  Starship launch date. That was announced by NASA.
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  Just recently, a group of Tesla workers in Buffalo, New York,
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  emailed CEO, Elon Musk on Tuesday, to announced their
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  intent to unionize collectively named Tesla Workers United.
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  The group hopes to form the first-ever Union, at the
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  electric Local Company, the future of many employees at
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  Tesla's Buffalo plant who labeled data for the autopilot.
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  Team may be uncertain. Tesla recently shuttered, its
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  San Mateo office and laid off 229 autopilot workers who
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  annotated data to train, the automated driving system in the
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  47 remaining workers were reportedly relocated to Buffalo.
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  Now, amid concerns over security and pay and their jobs, the
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  Buffalo workers have begun. With workers to United the same
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  group that helped form the country's first unionized
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  Starbucks in Buffalo unionizing, will further accelerate the
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  world's transition to sustainable energy, because it
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  will give us a voice in our workplace.
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  And in the goals we set for ourselves to accomplish, that's
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  what the organizing committee stated the workers hope that you
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  even izing will improve their individual well-being.
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  Enable them to meet their goals and help the company achieve
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  greater sustainability. However, not only are the data
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  labelers concerned about their livelihoods, but they are also
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  under pressure on the job. According to Bloomberg report,
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  Tesla tracks employees keystrokes to determine how much
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  work they devote to each task. And several workers have
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  reported that this surveillance combined with the pressure of
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  aggressive metrics and deadlines has led to some workers.
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  Skipping bathroom breaks in the roles pay a minimum of about $19
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  per hour, Tesla. United aim to get Tesla to sign
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  a document of fair election principles, which would prevent
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  the company from retaliating against organizing workers.
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  However, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a history of being derisive
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  around unions. Now, in 2018, he faced blowback
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  from the US National Labor Relations Board.
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  The nlrb over a tweet implying that employees would lose their
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  stock options if they joined a you.
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  Union, with the United Auto Workers.
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  The nlrb also found that Tesla broke labor laws by interfering
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  with employee organizing edits Fremont, California facility.
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  The company created rules to prevent off-duty workers from
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  Distributing. Leaflets about Union organizing
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  and firing two employees involved in the union efforts.
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  Now, let's move on to some SpaceX news.
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  Now, this is an important one because NASA has, given a
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  tentative launch date of March 11th.
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  For SpaceX is highly anticipated.
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  Starship orbital flight test, which has been eagerly
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  anticipated by space enthusiasts for months.
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  In the announcement, was made through the agency's, WB 57
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  plane, which will be used to track the Rockets progress.
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  During the mission. SpaceX has been conducting
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  full-scale tests throughout January and February of this
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  year. And Most recent test saw the
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  super-heavy booster fire up all 33 engines with 31 of them,
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  fully lighting up. Now, this was a significant
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  milestone for SpaceX as it sets the stage for the upcoming
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  orbital. Flight test.
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  The Starship rocket is designed to generate up to 17 million
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  pounds of thrust at liftoff in that latest, hot-fire test saw
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  the rocket generate 7.9 million pounds of thrust meeting the
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  test subjective. 'S, even though two engines were
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  Shut off. Now the upcoming orbital flight
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  test will throttle the Rockets engines up to 90%, which will
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  surpass the current most powerful rocket on Earth.
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  NASA's space, launch system, the SLS which generates eight point
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  eight million pounds of thrust. If the upcoming orbital flight
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  test is successful. The Starship rocket will set two
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  records. It will break the world record
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  for the most engines fired at the same time and it will become
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  the most powerful rocket in history surpassing Sing the
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  Soviet Union's and one rocket which generated a ten point two
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  million pounds of thrust. But failed on all four launch
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  attempts, the wbe 57 plane which is regularly used by NASA to
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  track high flying objects and provide important visual
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  confirmation of atmospheric re-entry will be used to monitor
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  the Starship orbital flight test.
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  In the plane is uniquely suited to this task, as it has a
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  service ceiling of 60,000 feet. Making it capable of monitoring
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  high-altitude, rocket tests and spacecraft re-entries.
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  And the mission will be closely watched by space enthusiasts and
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  Industry experts as it represents a significant
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  milestone in spacex's efforts to make space travel more
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  accessible and affordable. The Starship rocket is intended
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  to eventually transport humans to Mars and other destinations
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  in the solar system. Making it a critical component
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  of spacex's ambitious space exploration plans, As president
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  Gwynne, Shotwell announced earlier this year, that the
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  company would not only conduct a hot-fire test but also make an
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  orbital flight attempt in the coming months.
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  The CEO Elon Musk reiterated. The timeline set by Shotwell
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  which has now been confirmed by NASA's tentative launch date.
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  Now SpaceX is Starship orbital. Flight test is a huge event in
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  the company's efforts to make space.
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  Travel more accessible and affordable in the test will be
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  closely watched by space enthusiasts and Industry
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  experts. And if successful, it will set
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  two world records including becoming the most powerful
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  rocket in history. The W, be 57 plane will be used
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  to monitor the mission and it will provide critical visual
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  confirmation of the Rockets progress throughout the event,
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  the March 11th date is tentative but it provides a clear
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  indication of the company's progress and Ambitions to move
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  forward with this space flight. This episode of the podcast is
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  brought to you by the Sponsors SpaceX is Starship prototype
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  called SN 15 achieved. A significant milestone in 2021
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  when it landed successfully on a landing pad after a 10-kilometer
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  test flight, the spacecraft was the fifth of the Starship
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  prototypes and it's wrapped around June.
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  Generated Mammoth thrust due to the 500,000 pounds of produced.
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  The engine uses methyl oxide combination of methane and
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  oxygen, making it different from SpaceX has other rockets and
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  NASA's SLS rocket. The advantage of using methyl
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  ox's that burning methane, produces less sweet than
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  kerosene, a byproduct of kerosene and that it is easy to
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  produce methane on Mars. It requires CO2 which is
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  available from the atmosphere of Mars subsurface, ice deposits of
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  water and energy to create a chemical plant.
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  Now the super-heavy booster contains 33 Raptor engines, and
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  SpaceX successfully tested it with 31 engines firing for a few
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  seconds and Elon Musk hailed it as a success.
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  Yes, NASA has partnered with SpaceX to use Starship and
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  crewed missions and the agency expects to use the launcher on
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  two upcoming. Artemis missions to the Moon.
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  Additionally, a Japanese billionaire, his book,
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  Starships, First Flight Around the moon with a crew of eight
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  people of his choice. This Mission, which is dubbed.
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  Dear moon will take y m MZ. If you will, and his team within
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  200 kilometers of the Moon, surface musk also plans for
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  Starship to be used for Earth. Earth to Earth transport.
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  Most International long-distance trips would be completed in
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  around 30 minutes or less. According to spacex's website,
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  however, Starships fuel is made up of methane which is a potent
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  greenhouse gas that could pose environmental risks in the
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  future musk. Also claims to carry humans to
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  Mars using Starship and he predicted that it could happen
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  within the next five years in a tweet that he sent out recently.
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  Now, as mentioned earlier, the Starship is a fully reusable
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  spacecraft. Designed to take humans and
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  cargo to space and back in the spacecraft is about 50 meters
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  tall. It is capable of carrying over
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  100 metric, tons of cargo or up to 100 passengers to space.
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  The Starship can be launched on a super-heavy booster rocket
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  which is also reusable and will be powered by 33 of SpaceX is
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  powerful Reptar to engines. The Raptor engines are one of
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  the key technologies that have enabled SpaceX to achieve
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  breakthroughs in space flight. Unlike traditional rocket
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  engines that use kerosene or hydrogen Raptor engines are
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  combined with methane and oxygen.
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  This allows the engine to produce more thrust.
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  While also producing fewer pollutants.
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  Making them be more environmentally friendly rocket.
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  In addition to be used by NASA missions of private.
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  Space tourism SpaceX, has other ambitious plans for the starter.
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  Ship the company plans to use the spacecraft to build a
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  permanent settlement on Mars with the first human settlers
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  plan for as early as 20 26, and SpaceX CEO.
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  Elon Musk has stated that the goal of the company is to make
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  humanity and multiplanetary species and to make life
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  interplanetary however the journey to making life
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  interplanetary is not without its challenges, development
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  began testing. The Starship has been a long and
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  difficult process with numerous setbacks and failures and is And
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  earlier for previous Starship prototypes had ended in
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  catastrophic explosions during tests before the successful
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  Landing of s n 15, the rocket size and complexity, make it
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  particularly challenging to test and SpaceX has had to constantly
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  refine and iterate on this design and despite these
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  challenges SpaceX has demonstrated time and time again
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  that it's up to the task of making space flight more
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  accessible and affordable with its breakthroughs.
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  And Reusable rockets and spacecraft.
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  The company is leading the charge in transforming space
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  travel, from an exclusive and expensive Endeavor to one that
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  is accessible to more people. Now SpaceX is successful,
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  Landing of Starship prototype SM, 15 and 20 21 was a huge
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  breakthrough in the company's quest to make space.
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  Travel more accessible and affordable and the fully
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  reusable spacecraft and super-heavy booster rocket
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  powered by the Raptor two engines, have the potential to
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  revolutionize the space industry and a Enable missions to the
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  Moon, Mars and Beyond, while there are still challenges to
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  overcome such as environmental concerns, and the technical
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  difficulties of Designing, and testing such complex technology
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  SpaceX is achievement so far or a testament, to the company's
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  Innovation and determination.