Peter Diamandis

This is Flight 12.

On this flight, they're going to be demonstrating the docking ports that are going to enable orbital refueling.

Of course, orbital refueling of Starship is required for the lunar missions they're planning to win, as well as going to Mars.

Both stages are going to be splashing down the super heavy in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship in the Indian Ocean, as it's done before.

And hopefully they'll have buoys out there to watch both of them.

Remember, the NASA Artemis mission, Artemis 3, is a docking test later in 2027.

Artemis 4 to the lunar surface, particularly the South Pole, is taking place in 2028.

Alex, you'll be watching, of course.

I'll be watching, not from the moon.

You know, I don't think people realize how unique Starship is in terms of how it was designed, right?

This is designed for full reusability.

It's designed to land, refuel and go again.

It's, you know, his vision is airline like operations and the amount of throwaway outstrips everything else.

I have a, you know,

The one thing that Elon has done extraordinarily well is his manufacturing approaches and his sort of building for an ultimate capability.

New Glenn, again, Relativity Space, now CEO, friend of Pod, Eric Schmidt, those vehicles

I don't think they can compete.

They're going to have to build new capabilities to get to this launch frequency that enables all of these visions.

The development time takes years.

We haven't seen a vehicle go from design to operational flight in anything.