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Great. I think the social per
performed very well and the space six teams

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done an incredible job. Talk about
the views from starlink, I want to

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give a shout out to starlink hat
powered my live stream and obviously the three

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plus million people who watched on X. Yeah, we actually had I think

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sixteen video feeds or thereabouts from starlink, some of which were external, most

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of which were internal. Just looking
at the internal systems for cadevagging issues and

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yeah, we had almost continuous starlink
coverage. For the next flight, we

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make some adjustments to starlink so we'll
actually have completely continuous the entire way.

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I'm sure everyone at home would love
that. Would you say that fourth time

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is the charm? Maybe for SpaceX
As we look at Falcon one's history,

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the fourth launch is certainly great.
I mean third launch was we solid too.

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I mean we did make it to
orbit. By normal standards, that

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would be a successful launch. For
this launch, we we hit two key

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reusability milestones, which was having the
booster boost back to a precise location and

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execute a landing burne and land softly
in the water, which it did,

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and getting the ship to go all
the way through the super high heating of

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re entry where it's coming in like
a meteor and uh, and then maintain

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control subsonically and land in a pretty
precise precise location. Well it was technically

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six kilometers off geographically, but it
was able to was able to maintain control

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and then relight the three wraftar engines
for for a for landing. So that's

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uh a super successful days. Yeah, as you were watching, people are

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saying on X the little flat that
could, what was going through your mind?

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I was surprised that the flat lasted
so long. So it's uh,

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you know, because it's once the
heat shield tiles are gone, you really

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just have bare steel is mostly the
sort of SX three hundred steel alloy,

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and it was actually quite surprising how
well the steel held up despite the extreme

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heating. So I thought the flat
would fail because it's not supposed to be

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able to survive, but it did. I think a lot of us were

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surprised. Does that validate your choice
to use stainless steel? Yeah? Absolutely.

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If we'd use colbon fiber or aluminum, they both would have failed due

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to high heating. Now, we
saw you post on X that maybe flight

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five you'll attempt to catch how what
do you think is the likelihood of that.

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Well, I need to regroup with
a team and confirm that there aren't

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any other known issues. But I
think given that the booster came back,

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came to a precise location, came
to potentially zero lasty landing on the ocean,

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think we I think we should probably
try to catch it with the tower

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arms on the next flight. Absolutely, I was lucky enough to take a

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tour of Starbase, and it's amazing
that you guys are able to manage construction

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and production at the same time.
Tell me about the team down here at

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SpaceX. Yeah, well we've foased
on. We've been doing continuous construction of

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the factory and the launch site while
belt doing development of the rocket. That's

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been the case, you know,
ever since we came out here. For

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three years, this was my primary
locate, primary residence. I lived here,

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kind of building up this Starbase factory
and launch site from basically nothing,

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from just being a sandbar. And
and we're just trying to figure out how

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to do how to work with standless
steel as opposed to aluminum, mi lithium

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and carbon, and how to deal
with the methane as a quadrantic fuel instead

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of kerosen or fine jet fuel.
So yeah, so it's really always been

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a case of build the factory,
build the more site, and keep developing

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the rocket. And if people have
never been down to starbas this is much

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more than a factory. You're trying
to maybe build out a city. Can

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you tell me more about your vision? A city would be a strong word,

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but maybe a small town. Does
having a young workforce benefit SpaceX by

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not having preconceived notions? Well,
we have people that range from you know,

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sort of seventy to eighteen, so
it's really a wide range. I

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don't know about age. I mean, really it's a question of mindset.

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Is somebody gung ho about the future
and wanting to drive advanced technology as fast

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as possible. That can be true
at any age. What kinds of missions

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do you think SpaceX could accept that
will act as development stepping stones towards Mars.

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We're seeing the development stepping sense towards
here. Which is the fundamental breakthrough

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that is needed for life to become
multiplanetary is a fully and rapidly reusable rocket.

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So that means that the boost stage
and the upper stage or ship must

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both come back to the launch site
and be immediately able to fly again with

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no refurbishment. This has never been
accomplished. The closest that anyone's ever gone

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is Falcon nine, where the booster
comes back and is quickly available for flight

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in really less than a week,
and the Pheromone nose cone is also a

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refurbished full flight. The only thing
that's lost is the upper stage. So

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in terms of so Falcon is the
first rocket ever to demonstrate commercially feasible reusability.

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In fact, or another way of
saying it is reusability that actually mattered

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and was useful. Now Falcon nine
is still we lose the upper stage.

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So Falcon I is about eighty percent
reusable, but it's also not rapidly reusable

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in terms of enabling immediate reflight.
So with Starship, the whole thing will

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be reusable and it's designed for immediate
reflight' that's a very profound thing. That

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is the fundamental thing that is necessary
to make life multiplanetary. There is I

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put everything else in the category of
being really a different order of magnitude or

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difficulty. You know, I don't
think it will be very difficult to survive

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on Mars frankly, I think it'll
from technology challenge standpoint, that is,

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that is small compared to full and
rapid reusability. We live in a planet

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with a deep gravity, well in
a thick atmosphere. This makes full reusability

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extremely difficult. If gravity was even
ten percent lower, it would be easy,

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and if it was ten percent higher, it would be impossible. So,

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uh, you know, we it. It's not as though uh,

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prior rocket designers, you know it. It's not like people before me thought

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y D didn't realize that re reusability
was a thing. Bonovon Brown was actually

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big on reusability. He really wanted
to push a reusability design and he was

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a brilliant guy, and and he
had many sort of design ideas for that,

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as did others. Uh. But
uh, thus far, for whatever

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reason, uh, no rocket organization
has been able to execute on reusability until

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SpaceX and Starship is the first rocket
design where uh, full and rapid reusability

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is in fact possible cause w W. What this does is drop the cost

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of space transport by at least a
hundredfold, maybe a thousandfold. So it's

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a gigantic difference, uh, as
would before any motor transport. If it

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was cars, horses, bicycles,
airplanes, imagine if you needed to get

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in your airplane with every flight,
airflight would be impossible for almost anyone.

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One thing that never ceases to amaze
me is there's not enough people that really

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know what's going on with Starship and
why is it important to generate public interest?

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It's not. I mean, I
do think we want the public on

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our side and supportive, but we're
not trying to maximize public awareness. I

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think the large portion of public is
aware of it, and I think when

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we start taking Ashwaltz to the Moon
and especially Mars, it will be everyone

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on Earth will know about it.
At what point do you think it would

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be safe for people to bring or
have children on Mars? Well, I

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think you can have children on Mars
as soon as you're able to. I

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wouldn't bring children initially because it's dangerous. The first flights may not succeed.

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It's a hazardous environment. But I
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ten years of the initial landings,
I would expect that it's safe to bring

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kids. Do you think that you'll
go to Mars in your lifetime? Whipends

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I If I live long enough,
then yes,