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>>12164592
This is what the falcon 9 first stage looked like as they were testing it. Within a few months they had the "official" factory one flying. If Starship already looks this good I can only imagine how sexy and sleek it is going to look

>>12155201
Holy shit. Reminder that this is basically the grasshopper of starship. I imagine the finished product is going to look absolutely unreal and cool

>>11754309
There are a lot of things on the table. First, we have to consider Elon's insane drive. Remember the shitty looking grasshopper used to test reusable Falcon 9 (pic related)? They tested that thing and had Falcon flying reusable missions shortly thereafter. If we look at the Starship prototypes now we're seeing the same thing. To add on to this, NASA selected them as part of the Artemis program. Not only did NASA buy them 10 months of funding (which they arguably didn't even NEED per se) but now there's an expectation for this thing to actually get done in time. I suspect Elon is going to test and blow up a bunch of prototypes but we're gonna get a working Lunar Starship before we know it and see a demo flight and demo landing on the Moon in 2022 or 2023