SpaceX successfully catches returning Starship booster
TechCrunchOCT 2024
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The ambitious nature of this test raises concerns. Musk's alignment with right-wing politics threatens to overshadow its founding vision of making life multi-planetary. While there's no harm in humanity investing in colonizing other planets, if the power to do so remains concentrated in SpaceX's hands, it will have catastrophic consequences for the world.
There's a 50% chance that SpaceX's Starship will carry a human to orbit by 2027, according to the Metaculus prediction community.