Space - Elon Musk uten klare planer for sin nyeste rakett - The Economist

 

SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform space travel

Precisely when, though, remains unclear

 

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Feb 11th 2022

WHEN IT COMES to size and spectacle, the peak of the Space Age passed in 1973, with the final flight of the Saturn V rocket that had carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon. Taller than the Statue of Liberty, the Saturn V could lug 140 tonnes into orbit. Its first flight, in 1967, provoked Walter Cronkite, an American news anchor reporting far from the pad, to exclaim: “My God, our building’s shaking here!” as ceiling tiles fell around him. Despite half a century of technological progress, nothing as powerful has reached orbit since (see chart 1).