[..] SpaceX's Starship spacecraft atop Super Heavy first stage booster is the tallest and most powerful rocket ever flown, with twice the thrust of the American-developed Saturn V launch vehicle in the 1960s, and even more powerful than the N1 /L3 conceived by the Soviets in the same period, whose first stage was the most powerful stage of a rocket ever flown for over 50 years, generating 45.4 MN of thrust. By comparison, SpaceX's Starship generated 75.9 MN thrust. Curiously, each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed, with the second attempt resulting in the vehicle crashing onto the launch pad shortly after liftoff. Considering how SpaceX is considering a hole in its launch pad and not the entire destruction of its spaceport helps put into perspective the engineering difficulty of launching an integrated rocket of that size, and the success of having lifted off and flown a vehicle that reached an altitude that in fifty years no one had ever tried to pass or even reach.

[..] Putting in space the *James Webb Space Telescope* will represent a huge paradigm shift for humanity, a great moment of introspection.

As the most widespread, anomalous, powerful, and formidable animal species the Earth has ever produced, we face enormous challenges, such as our relationship with Earth and contradictions. We look out into the cosmos with curiosity, hoping that other intelligent life forms exist.

However, on Earth, we have not always been alone.