NASA
On this day in 2011, the orbiter Discovery launched on her final flight, STS-133, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as this was the first of the last three missions before the space shuttle program came to an end that year. And tonight, one of three Raptor engines on SpaceX's Starship SN10 vehicle is being replaced at the company's launch facility in Boca Chica Beach, Texas...in preparation for a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) hop that can happen by the end of this week. From a venerable spacecraft that flew in low-Earth orbit for 30 years, to the prototype of a rocket that can legitimately send people to Mars by the end of this decade, a lot has obviously changed for human spaceflight over the past 10 years.
Elon Musk
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