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Everyone expected Starship Flight 14 to attempt the first ship catch in history. Then a government filing showed up, and buried inside it is one sentence that changes the entire mission. Bigger than anything SpaceX has announced out loud. And it comes with a solid date. Meanwhile, a strange piece of hardware just rolled through the Port of Brownsville toward Starbase. Almost nobody noticed it. It might be telling us the truth about SpaceX's new Starship launch pad. SpaceX's New Plan For The First Ever Ship Catch | 21:51 What about it!? | 662K subscribers | 25,662 views | August...

On Tuesday morning, we published an episode arguing that Starship's heat shield doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to be serviceable. On Tuesday afternoon, on SpaceX's very first earnings call as a public company, Elon Musk went further than we ever dared. Quote: "I'd consider the heat shield problem solved at this point." And that was just one hour of this call. A ship catch attempt at the end of this month. Operational Starlink V3 satellites on Flight 14. One Starship launch per day within a year. Boots on the Moon in 2028. All of it on the record,...

Reuse. It's the entire reason Starship exists. And right now, SpaceX is towing a flown Starship across an ocean just to get its hands on it again. Meanwhile, the internet declares that the heat shield that brought it home can never work as intended. Today, we run the actual numbers on that claim. The result surprised even me. And then there's Flight 14. The signs point to something we have never seen before. A Starship that doesn't come home after an hour. One that might stay in orbit for days, for the first time ever. And then it comes back...

SpaceX just did something unusual with Ship 40. A Starship static fire where 5 of the 6 engines stayed completely silent. That one detail tells us something important about Flight 13. Meanwhile, a second ship is already at the test site, those mysterious white heat tiles are back, and SpaceX is about to set a Starship record no rocket has ever held. SpaceX Starship Flight 13 Final Prep! Two Starships At Once? | 22:28 What about it!? | 651K subscribers | 233,048 views | July 1, 2026

SpaceX may have just dropped its biggest hint yet about what comes after Starship Flight 13. Indeed, FINALLY! Starship's Next Giant Leap may be here as the new filings point toward an Orbital Return Demo that could mark the next major milestone on the road to full reusability. With that work continues at Starbase on Pads 1 and 2, the Gigabay, and future launch infrastructure. Elsewhere this week, we cover Falcon 9 launches carrying BlueBird satellites, Starlink, and another classified NRO mission, Cargo Dragon’s return from the International Space Station, Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander preparing for launch, Ariane 6’s impressive...

We are 18 days past Flight 12. And SpaceX is already deep into preparing for the next one. Booster 20 just completed its first cryo test. Booster 21 is stacking up inside Mega Bay 1. Ship 40 has engines going in. And the launch pad still looks like it has never seen a rocket. The question now isn't whether Flight 13 is coming. The question is how soon. And it might come sooner than you think. SpaceX Reveals NEW Prototype! Starship Flight 13 Is Almost Here! | 22:14 What about it!? | 647K subscribers | 43,920 views | June 9,...

SpaceX is dropping the bomb! Ship 39 is at the test site after a spectacular rollout. But there’s a story they didn’t tell us. Starship Flight 12 is closer than you might think, and Starbase is getting ready for a giant leap! And NASA… is overthrowing its own plans while SLS is still stuck on the ground. Radical change is coming for Artemis, and it’s not at all what you’d expect! SpaceX Starship: Flight 12 Ship 39 Reveals A Secret Trick! | 21:37 What about it!? | 625K subscribers | 19.585 views | March 3, 2026

Pad B is crossing a major milestone: the Orbital Launch Mount has arrived! With Ship 35 doing another static fire and the launch window fast approaching, how close is Flight 9? And how about the Starship future? SpaceX is radically redesigning major parts of Starship! Meanwhile, Rocket Lab is getting closer to pulling off a move even SpaceX hasn’t accomplished yet. Ready For Flight 9? SpaceX Starship- MASSIVE Progress In One Single Day!! | 21:12 What about it!? | 595K subscribers | 281,558 views | May 13, 2025

WASHINGTON - Death threats are a persistent part of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's life. "I have to have regular conversations with my kids: 'What happens if I am killed?'" Omar said in an interview. "I have to have regular conversations with them about how to walk down the street, things to look for." Since the Minneapolis Democrat won her congressional seat in 2018, two men have pleaded guilty to threatening to kill her. Omar's name, along with those of other prominent Democrats and some media figures, was found on a list put together by a man federal prosecutors warned "stockpiled...