This is John Batchel, a conversation with my good colleague, David Livingston, Dr. Space of the Space Show, and Douglas Messier, conversation about starship, the tests at Boca Chica, and the lack of success of the last several for the goal that was set, not necessarily to run it perfectly, but to learn different

aspects of the apparatus, the super heavy, the starship, the separation, the internal engines,

the storage bay, the tiles for re-entry. All of this, however, is expensive. And David asked the question I have not seen

detailed before. Yes, the income from Starlink is paying for everything, we're told, but

how much of everything and how many tests, and what does it cost? It's a private corporation, people trusted.

Curious.

Here's David Livingston on what we don't know.

More of this tonight.

Not anything, and I'm really surprised about that,

that nobody is zeroing in on the cost, how he is funding it, and if he has a threshold for

pain on Starship like he did in developing Falcon in the first place, or is this an endless

effort no matter what it cost?