Shuttle: years of assembly time with many contractors, in huge closed hangars. Starhopper: we build it it a month, outside. What changed? Better weatherproofing fault tolerant tech?
SpaceX's Big Falcon Hopper/Starship Hopper at Boca Chica now has the three sections mated:
#Shiny
Photo from NSF's BocaChicaGal:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47120.msg1898500#msg1898500 …pic.twitter.com/Sd6W0Jepro
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Oh, you can't go there.
Shuttle was infinitely more complex. Sure, that was part of her problem, but we can only start the Shuttle comparisons with the space-worthy Starship....which may become what Shuttle always wanted to be. - 2 more replies
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Looking like every bad 1930s sci-fi B movie :-)
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Yeah, but in a good way. Someone time traveled to 2050, saw a fleet of Starships and traveled back to the 1800’s, we were just the fools to think they were wrong all along.
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I didn’t expect to see this phase happening for at least another month.
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What is it?
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I’m honestly surprised bec won’t they have to UNmate the top and bottom segments to put the internals??
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maybe they are already inside
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Who would believe aluminum foil is a great space material?
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