🚀 Starship will be the 1st fully reusable orbital rocket in history.Liquid oxygen, liquid methane, and a cost-per-launch that could drop below trans-oceanic air freight.Elon put it simply: "The cost of access to orbit is just the cost of propellant."If that holds, the economics of space will get rewritten entirely.Source: @SpaceX, @elonmusk

Elon Musk says steel killed carbon fiber on Starship at one-fiftieth the cost.Carbon fiber was supposed to be the future of rocketry.Lighter than aluminum. Stronger than steel. Trusted by every Formula 1 team.SpaceX picked it for Starship."Particularly if you go for a high-strength specialized carbon fiber that can handle cryogenic oxygen, it's roughly 50 times the cost of steel."Then progress stalled.The autoclaves needed to cure the resin had to outsize every autoclave on Earth, and the team c