Originally Posted by
ORAC
-Flight 5 in about a month, after replacing the heatshield on the ship with a new tile twice as strong.
-Ablative protection underneath will act as secondary heatshield layer.
-Starship to Mars in 3 years.
That's just incredible. Did NASA ever reach a one launch per month tempo, even in the 1960s? Let alone with major improvements.
And Starliner/CFT has suffered years of being rescheduled.