This is CBS Island the World. I'm John Besser.

Tabococchika with Bob Zimmerman who keeps the website behind the black and has very much

educated us to be patient for Starship super heavy. Bob, how patient?

We could be a lot of, we're going to maybe need a lot of patience here, John,

that we still remain unknown about when the launch has happened.

SpaceX has made it very clear they're targeting June 5th for the next fourth test flight

of its Starship super-heavy big rocket.

And the story here today is that this week they completed their second dress rehearsal countdown of the rocket with

Starship stacked on top of super heavy.

That includes a full countdown fueling both vehicles to to completion and then

getting to T-minor zero and doing a quick static fire burn of super-heady and that was

done completely and their success.

So they're technically ready.

They have some more homework to do to get ready for the actual launch.

That's standard.

And they're ready to go.

The unknown remains. Will the FAA give them a launch

license. SpaceX has worked it out with the FAA whereby FAA doesn't have to

complete its investigation on the third launch before this flies.

But the FAA though has agreed to that has not issued the launch license.

And so we just just wait and see whether it will or not.

There are a lot of people that say this means because they've agreed to issue the launch

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