In preparation for Elon’s Starship update tonight… the full 4/20 stack, with the giant elevating “chopsticks” on the launch tower that will catch the booster and Starship when they fly back to the pad… for the world’s first fully reusable orbital class rocket. And the launch pad is even more complex than the rocket. First flight in a month or two, pending FAA approval. 6pm PST webcast at https://www.spacex.com

“Imagine what the world will be like 50 or 100 years from now? People will look back at pictures like this in the history holocrons and say ‘this is when everything began to change’.” — Jared Isaacman, Inspiration4 Commander

There are my favorite shots by the intrepid photographers on site today, John Kraus and Carlos Nunez, with links to them in each caption.

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