>>1641370The Starship concept is probably more redundant than the Space Shuttle was, in that the Starship could, at least theoretically under certain conditions, fly itself away from the booster in case of trouble. The backup plan for the Shuttle was pretty much "everything will go perfectly, and if it doesn't, we'll ask congress for more funding".
SpaceX has a history of underachieving when it comes to their stated goals, which tend to overshadow for many the fact that they have vastly overachieved when it comes to anything anyone expected ten years prior to their actual achievements. If you could travel back in time and tell yourself about what this runt of a startup have been up to the past decade, chances are you wouldn't believe you. Starship may in ten years not have reached any of Musk's stated goals, but don't let that stand in the way of appreciating what they will have achieved.
And for the record, two organisations who currently have faith in the Starship, to the tune of billions of dollars of money invested in it, is the most successful space company in the world (SpaceX), and, with their selection of Starship for the next thing to bring their astronauts onto the god damn Moon, NASA themselves.
