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and we look forward to his future plans. These include a functional scale model of the belly-flopping starship, a mysterious “meat rocket”, and the big one, a space shot to exceed 100 km altitude.

With each model ... economies of scale. And since the principles that Musk applies to his companies apply to making cars as well as putting satellites into orbit or launching rockets, the future ...