https://phys.org/news/2022-02-spacex-elon-musk-1st-orbital.html

SpaceX's

Elon Musk: 1st orbital Starship flight maybe March:

SpaceX's Elon Musk said Thursday that the first orbital flight of his towering Starship—the world's most powerful rocket ever built—could come in another month or two.

While he anticipates failures, he's confident Starship will reach orbit by the end of this year.

Musk provided his first major Starship update in more than two years while standing alongside the 390-foot (119-meter) rocket at SpaceX's Texas spaceport. He urged the nighttime crowd, "Let's make this real!"

"This is really some wild stuff here," he said. "In fact, hard to believe it's real."

NASA plans to use the fully reusable Starship to land astronauts on the moon as early as 2025. Musk, meanwhile, hopes to deploy a fleet of Starships to create a city on Mars, hauling equipment and people there.

For now, the initial flights would carry Musk's internet satellites, called Starlinks, into orbit.

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He certainly has ambitions. I wish him all the best.

Be interesting to see whether this or the SLS makes it to orbit first, and which takes humans into space first.