🚀💥 Time to worry about SpaceX and Starship?

I'm concerned that too many booms per blastoff may be putting Elon Musk's Moon and Mars timelines in danger

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,

In my 2021 AEI podcast chat with Eric Berger, the Ars Technica space reporter and the author of two books on SpaceX called Elon Musk's company "the most dominant space company of the era — of today, of now, and of the future, most likely."

High praise, but I would make a giant leap further.

Consider Musk's vision: to transform humanity from an Earth-exclusive species into one spread across the Solar System. Mars colonization — civilizational insurance policy against extinction — is only part of the dream. Through Starship's radical size, power, and reusability, the entrepreneur aims to turn space travel from an elite government monopoly into something approaching mass transit. Future versions of Starship are mean to ferry settlers to Terminus and X Æ A-Xii City on the Red Planet, industrialize the Moon, and shrink Terra itself by rocketing commuters between continents in under an hour.

Ticking all those boxes would plausibly make SpaceX the most important company in human history.