Elon Musk

Not out of the question.

I suppose that may happen.

I think we'll recover the ship next year.

We've got one more launch of the Starlink version 2 stack, but there's only one booster in ship left that's in the version 2 stack.

design, and then thereafter it's version 3, which is a gigantic upgrade, because that's got Raptor 3, and pretty much everything changes on the rocket with version 3.

So version 3 might have some initial teething pains, because it's such a radical redesign, but it's capable of over 100 tons to orbit, fully reusable.

And I think

Unless we have some very major setbacks, SpaceX will demonstrate full reusability next year, catching both the booster and the ship, and being able to deliver over 100 tons to a useful orbit.

Well, in terms of sort of commercial rockets, there's Falcon Heavy, which will do in, with side booster reuse, will do about 40 tons.

Well, two and a half times bigger, but Starship would be full reusability.

So everything comes back.

Well, there were a lot of questions and reviews.

We got through them all.

And credit to the SpaceX team, they worked incredibly hard, and they...

Got the next driven booster tested and on the pad and flown.

Huge credit to the SpaceX team, very proud of them for doing such a job, a great job recovering.

I mean, creating a fully reusable orbital rocket is one of the hottest engineering problems ever.

It's certainly, you know, a candidate for most difficult engineering project ever.

You know, it's on the podium at least.

So that's been the goal of SpaceX from the beginning, from 2002.