said: Elon is so far behind his promised schedule, and with such a huge need for refueling, that none of his promises should be taken uncritically. The government keeps lavishing money on him despite his many failures. More number crunching, please Elon is often behind aspirational schedules. What is important is the aspirational aspect of the schedule and the fact that he is almost always directionally correct. Whether a spaceship a day occurs in 2028 or 2034 is not really material. What is important is the fact that this skilled, knowledgeable and rich person has a vision of needing 1,000+ reusable spaceships! This is at least a 3 order magnitude change fron 2010. An incredible rate of change in 25 years or so in the sleepy space business. It was way less than 25 years ago that 10,000+ satellite constellations were deemed economically and technologically impossible. The important things are the goals and the money and effort being spent to achieve these goals. Simply compare the time for Boeing to create a human transport capsule for existing rockets versus the Starship development cycle to date. Starship as a platform for heavy launch in single use mode is already finished. Most of the efforts going forward are for reusability. ======= Starship in single use mode is now the most powerful rocket with a cost (not price) likely less than a third of any best case SLS cost scenario. This seems to have gone unnoticed. Reply