SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that he scrapped the idea of adding stainless steel “dragon wings” to Starship given their mass and complexity.
What Happened: Five years ago, on April 14, 2019, Musk wrote on social media platform X (then Twitter) that he was thinking about adding “giant stainless steel dragon wings” to Starship. Musk’s comment came on the heels of the premier of the eighth and final season of the popular television series Game of Thrones, leaving Twitter users wondering if the CEO was joking.
But Musk later clarified that he would rate his seriousness about the design idea at 6.5 on a scale of 1 to 10. Physics, the CEO said, would allow the design.
Musk on Monday said that while the design idea could indeed work, its mass and complexity are higher than a ...