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SpaceX rolls largest rocket booster ever built to the launch pad

Teslarati

Six weeks after assembly began, SpaceX has completed Starship’s first true Super Heavy booster prototype, rolled it out of its ‘high bay’ nest, and installed the building-sized rocket at the launch pad. Super Heavy Booster 3 on test pad A: pic.twitter.com/PEsjdIocVI — Starship Gazer (@StarshipGazer) July 1, 2021.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Grove made it clear one thing was glaringly missing from Gore’s plea: dealing with our national petroleum addiction. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C.,

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