People arguing that these tests are failures because Starship took too much damage to be reused are missing the point.
Starship showed that even with lots of tiles missing in critical places, it can still survive and land on target.
It’s something the Space Shuttle couldn’t do.
Starship HLS is going to have 135x the living volume of the Apollo LEM!
Sci-fi shows from 10y ago imagined future landers would be ~10x larger than the LEM, but we’re skipping over an entire generation and going straight to giant multipurpose ships.
SpaceX is 20 years ahead.
SpaceX has launched more since the first Falcon 1 in 2006 than the rest of the US (including NASA) has since 1997.
Starship is so ambitious that it’s easy to forget how much Falcon 9 has achieved. 130+ launches this year alone.
@ScottLikedSLS pointed out that there is an issue with Starship’s height, I’ve found and corrected the logic flow (related not to the height limit, but to a width component which is how I missed it). It made starship appear 107m high instead of 121m.
Here’s the correct version:
Starship will have 3x the livable volume and 2x the payload of the Santa Maria, the ship used by Christopher Columbus to travel to the new world.
SpaceX is building the space caravel that will take humanity to new Worlds.