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This is going to be the MOST IMPORTANT LAUNCH since apollo 11. I explain, if starship fails again, all artemis program is gonna be FUCKED UP and possible cancelled. Itd mean that China will be the firts country to land on the south pole of the moon, and that would be the most embarrasing moment in NASAs history. The whole World will see a chinese flag on the moon in 4k for the firts time, and the apollo missions will be totally forgotten (even for a lot of people itll be the firts moon landing ever because apollo 11 was fake) and for the public/normies China would surpass the US in terms of space exploration.

So the status of United Stated as a nation depends on this launch

Starship gonna turn out to be a shuttle 2.0 isnt it? No abort system, the same thermal protection and its same problem, and its being more expensive and complicated than spaceX expected, its being almost a year since IFT 1 and only we had two flights and none of them reached orbit. If it were a failure whats next?