SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starship is facing over 1000 design changes before its second test flight

Starship is getting quote UN quote, 1000 new changes before its second test flight.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starship is facing well over 1000 design changes and will need another six weeks to implement them all before another test flight is possible.

Hot staging is a method of separating stages of a launch vehicle mid flight, which has been used mostly by Russian rockets.

A new look at the nose cone of Ship 30 appears to have the first glimpse of a reaction control system, the delicate thrusters required to help a ship make precise maneuvers in space, like for docking.

The first real training for Mars has begun on June 25th at 7:30 Eastern Time , a four person crew of NASA volunteers stepped into the simulated Mars base at NASA 's Johnson Space Center in Houston , TX .

NASA currently has three crude vehicles that are rated for use in orbit for their missions and capsule made by NASA themselves.

The problem is that the Orion isn't really meant for rapid use, being as it is an exploration craft made for the Artemis missions, and with the Soyuz being a design from the late 1960s and Russia 's increasing reliability, NASA really only has Crew Dragon to work with for things like crew transfers to the ISS .

And that's where Blue Origin comes in.