Starship's Fifth Test Flight Success

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Catching the Starship: A Breakthrough for Humanity

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Starship completed its fifth test flight and demonstrated a dramatic mode of booster recovery by catching the enormous Super Heavy first stage on the same launch tower it had left only a few minutes earlier .

Less than an hour later , the upper-stage ship successfully reentered the atmosphere and performed a soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean .

The 2031 window is a possibility for the first manned Mars flight, and by the 2033 window I would say it is likely.

Once humans can go, the number going in each window will start to increase.

The first people to go will be highly risk-tolerant adventurers, who will build a base and try to mitigate some of the dangers of this hostile planet.

Back here in the vicinity of Earth , there will be ever more activity in space.

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