It seems like only earlier today [It was only earlier today, Steve —editor] that I was telling you about NASA’s duct-tape-and-bailing-wire effort to get the much-delayed Boeing Starliner up on its inaugural manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS). But while NASA and Boeing were working on workarounds to a design flaw in Starliner’s propulsion system, SpaceX was taking the lessons learned from the successes and failures of Starship’s third test flight while rapidly preparing for its fourth.
One man stands in the way of that epic test flight. His name is Joe Biden.
But before we get to Slow Joe, let’s get to the exciting Starship news that SpaceX released a couple of days ago.
Starship’s third test flight took place in March and corrected the deficiencies discovered in the first two. The spacecraft even conducted an intra-vehicle refueling test, moving volatile rocket fuel from one internal tank to another. The next step in the testing process will be to transfer fuel from one ship to another. In-flight refueling will be one of Starship’s superpowers, giving it the legs to deliver previously unimaginable amounts of mass around the inner Solar System — and eventually beyond.
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