SpaceX Is Getting Closer to Success with Starship

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The third test flight of the SpaceX Starship system ended in in the loss of the vehicle as both booster and the orbital vehicle failed. But both booster and space vehicle were far closer to mission success than either of the first two test flights, and changes are underway for flight four.

According to Jim Anderton, the reaction of the engineering team at SpaceX mission control was rather strange. The celebratory atmosphere and cheering make for a stark contrast to the very serious tone of NASA mission control in Houston during Space Shuttle and Apollo Saturn flights.

Is this youthful exuberance, or is there a generational shift in what was once an almost religious reverence for space vehicle launch operations?

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