NASA employee says SpaceX's starship is about to change everything

https://futurism.com/nasa-employee-spacex-starship/amp

"NASA Jet Propulsion Lab system architect Casey Handmer is impressed with SpaceX’s progress... Two years ago Starship was a design concept and a mock up... Today it’s a 95 percent complete prototype that will soon fly to space... It’s a continuing and dedicated attempt to achieve the ‘Holy Grail’ of rocketry, a fully and rapidly reusable orbital class rocket that can be mass manufactured... is going to render many of the agency’s grand ambitions moot"

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