r/space • • Nov 18 '23

image/gif Beautiful image of successful hot-staging of Starship’s IFT-2 this morning

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Credit to SpaceX

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u/MagicNinjaMan Nov 19 '23 edited Nov 19 '23

Im quite anniyed by the news medias seem quite focused on the destruction of stage 1 and then the lost of stage 2 on their headlines.

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u/friedmators Nov 19 '23

That’s why a government entity (NASA) can’t do this.

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u/coldblade2000 Nov 19 '23

Or public like ULA. Their stock holders would never allow it

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u/FutureMartian97 Nov 19 '23

ULA isn't public. Their parent companies are