Well, it's without question the engineering marvel of the age. The Starship rocket millions of pounds of thrust generated necessary in order to escape the almost irresistible pull of red tape, bureaucracy, spitefulness, meanness, and overall general pettiness on the part of the government of the United States of America.

Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott.

You'll be pleased to know that the fifth flight test of SpaceX's starship,

the one where they're going to attempt to catch the booster,

because if you can land the booster on the launch pad,

you can send them up an awful lot faster.

Well, we've all been looking forward to that, and we were expecting a launch date probably

in early August, maybe late July, early August, which then got stretched to maybe end of

August, then we're looking at early September and in middle of September.

And now we find out, no, we're not launching in September, and we're not launching in October.

We will not be launching Starship until November.

What is the monumental challenge that is keeping Elon Musk and this record-breaking, mind-boggling technology on Earth?

Well, it's political red tape. They can't get their launch license. And Steve Green, if you want to

tell me that Elon Musk coming out as a large supporter of Donald Trump, an enthusiastic supporter

of Donald Trump, an enthusiastic supporter of Donald

Trump, a man who's going to contribute to Donald Trump's campaign, if you want to tell me that

this has nothing to do with this punitive, spiteful, ridiculous, insignificant, absolutely

inconsequential, impertinent, irrelevant grounding of the space, of the spaceship,

starship launch, then I got a bridge i want to sell you

and um and it's and it's it just i i'm just so bloody angry i just don't know what to say yeah let me

let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let's you what the stakes

are because they are huge so what starship promises to do is to reduce the cost of a launch into low Earth orbit

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