Well, there it is, ladies gentlemen, a fine photograph of America's newest hero, the Little Finn that could.

Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Little here with Steve Green and Scott Ott, and this episode is about, well, a couple of spaces that made it to orbit or at the release sub-orbit within the space of almost 24 hours, I suppose.

First of all, let's start with the happy news. That picture that you

saw, for those of you that make a few of you on Earth who may not have heard the story already,

after Flight 4 of the Starship Super Heavy, this idea of iterative design is seeming to do

what iterative design actually does. We don't know what we don't know

until we don't know it, and then we know it. We fix those problems. That allows us to go further,

and then we find new problems. So just as a very brief recap, on Starship first launch, the rocket

takes off, and it's so much more powerful than they thought. It destroys the pad, completely

blast the concrete to atoms,

kicks all this atomic dust and particles and graphite and steel up into the engines,

knocks a bunch of engines out. It makes it up to the point, off it clears the pad,

and then finally goes out of control, we have to blow it up. So that's the first test flight.

So we build a better, stronger launch pad, we put it up

a little bit higher, everything there's looking good. Second flight, we get up to the point, we get

staging, we're waiting for the booster to start its boost back burn, kabloom! And starships on its way

up into orbit, kabloom. All right, but we got the staging. Third flight, we get the hot staging, which is working.

Starship's on its way into a suborbital flight.

The booster is on its boostback burn.

Looks like it's going to make it.

It's going to make it here.

It goes out of control half an hour later.

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