Peter Hague
@peterrhague · Jul 30, 2026
To add my tuppence to the “rapidly reusable” heat shield debate; one advantage SpaceX has is that they don’t have astronauts on board Starship so can take risks that were unacceptable with the Shuttle; they can refly a heat shield with some damage, like we saw on S40, just to see
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Exactly
06:15 AM · July 31, 2026 · 24.9K views
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