11. Starship re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Views through the plasma
12. Super Heavy Booster 9’s 33 Raptor engines power Starship toward a successful hot-staging on its second flight test on November 18, 2023. Photo by John Kraus.
13. Smooth separation
14. Starship through the clouds
15. Crowds watching the Starship launch from afar. Dreaming of Mars and becoming a multiplanetary species.
16. The scale of SpaceX’s Starship
17. Starship Flight 3 by John Kraus
18. Liftoff of Starship Flight 3 by John Kraus
19. Starship from afar by John Kraus
20. Per aspera ad astra!
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The same man who sculpted the Pietà at 23, was commissioned the David at 26, painted the Sistine Chapel’s vault at 36, and was appointed chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica at 71.
A thread on the greatest artist of all time 🧵
1. Goethe said that "without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving."
If you've ever been inside this room, you know that it is simply impossible to disagree with the German polymath.
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512, and he later returned to paint The Last Judgment (1536–1541) on the chapel’s altar wall.