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Ship 24 in the Highbay.  Will it really launch next month?

Elon wants another to be ready for an August launch and then one each month, there after.

I wonder how much one of those hexagonal heat-ablating shields on the nose cone would cost? It'd make a great coffee table top!

A little curved, though!  Why do you ask just about the nose cone, Zook?  There are tiles all down the windward side of the spacecraft

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Size comparisons. 

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Ship 24 in the Highbay.  Will it really launch next month?

Elon wants another to be ready for an August launch and then one each month, there after.

I wonder how much one of those hexagonal heat-ablating shields on the nose cone would cost? It'd make a great coffee table top!

A little curved, though!  Why do you ask just about the nose cone, Zook?  There are tiles all down the windward side of the spacecraft

True, but those ones on the nose cone are unique.

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy stage having been successfully recovered.

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Size comparisons. 

That’s outdated, unfortunately.  The BFR became Starship, and is a bit different than those renderings.  Close in size, tho.

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As the Moon sets below the Earth’s horizon the atmosphere refracts, or bends, it’s light making it appear flatter  in this photo taken from the ISS.

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Not new news but on July 11,2021, Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic CEO and owner flew and went to space in the VSS Unity and floated inside his starship. Don't know if he vomited or not. 

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Booster 7 with all 33 Raptor engines installed gets picked up and placed on the orbital launch platform by Mechazilla’s “chopsticks”.  This is the first time the chopsticks have been used to pick up a vessel.  Can’t wait to see it catch one on the way down.

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Jeff Bezos' starship Blue Origin aka the flying dildo. 

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Earth, compared to Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot

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The planets but don't look for Pluto since in this illustration, it is no longer considered a planet. 

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The planets but don't look for Pluto since in this illustration, it is no longer considered a planet. 

It hasn’t for a long time.  And what’s with Saturn being naked?  Rings don’t count anymore?

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Here’s one I came across on YouTube today.  This is Hazegrayart’s rendition of a Boeing 1968 study of a Saturn V-4X(U) One Million Pound Payload: The Beast.  It would’ve been comprised of four improved Saturn S-IC first stage stretched to 498 inches with 6.64 million pounds of propellant and 5 F-1 engines each and 4 S-II second stage with 5 J-2 engines and a payload shroud of 86.5 feet in diameter and 240 feet long for a payload of a million pounds.  This was basically strapping 4 Saturn V rockets together.

Insane.

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That would have been one noisy SOB.

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The planets but don't look for Pluto since in this illustration, it is no longer considered a planet. 

It hasn’t for a long time.  And what’s with Saturn being naked?  Rings don’t count anymore?

Rings are like moons, not an integral part of the planet but part of its system. Besides, Neptune has a ring also even though not as impressive.