(ArsTechnica) World’s largest space conference succeeds in making a Starship update boring

Good analysis, from all I’ve heard.

Anyone who keeps track of Elon Musk knows the world’s richest man has a penchant for setting aspirational schedules for his companies…So, if you have an opportunity to interview him, why spend time asking Musk to prognosticate when one of his companies will do something years in the future?

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SpaceX’s brilliant engineers certainly have creative ideas and novel plans to get Starship to the Red Planet, so why not ask Musk about them when you have him for a rare hourlong one-on-one conversation? It’s the how that is most interesting now, not the when or why, especially for an audience interested enough to tune in at the IAC.

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But Mowry’s questions missed the mark at a time when the Starship program is at a critical point, and he didn’t probe with follow-up questions to tease out more insightful answers.

The whole article is worth a read, really.