![]() That hope ended with removal, the legal term for the moment at which America decides it wants nothing more to do with you. Jock hoped he might be able to stay in America. That’s not nothing, not when life is lived suspended between countries, the calendar shows only the next court appearance, and the threat of deportation hangs over every morning in the yard. In El Paso, he could get a nice iced tea from the canteen. That was where the prisoners were beaten, he said. ICE had picked him up in Cook County, Illinois. I had assumed that all prisons would be the same-a monotony of sad cells and bad food-but Jock insisted on the particularity of his memories. “I’ve been all over America,” Jock told me, as he recounted his prison tour: Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, New York, and Texas. Prior to his deportation in 2019, Jock had spent two years in the limbo of ICE custody, constantly moved between jails as his case shuffled through the courts. After ICE removes someone’s fetters, Jock told me, staring into the White Nile, “they wipe them down, and use them on the next deportee.” It was September 2021, and we were sitting in one of Juba’s riverside bars. He “wanted the waiting to end,” he said, and to “get the shackles off.” They remained on for the long flight that had taken Jock from Louisiana to Juba, the capital of South Sudan-a country that hadn’t even existed when he left Africa in 1994, merely three years old, and entered the United States. By the time Immigration and Customs Enforcement had amassed enough passengers to fill up a deportation flight to East Africa, Duol Tut Jock was ready to leave. Follow us on Twitter (opens in new tab) or Facebook (opens in new tab). Follow him on Twitter (opens in new tab). Mike Wall is the author of " Out There (opens in new tab) " (Grand Central Publishing, 2018 illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. "That's obviously something that we want to make sure of before proceeding with the next flight." "The longest-lead item is probably requalification of the flight termination system," Musk said during Saturday's Twitter Spaces talk. That investigation is likely looking into Starship's FTS, because the system didn't work exactly as planned during the debut launch: A whopping 40 seconds elapsed between the issuing of the self-destruct command and the explosion high above the Gulf of Mexico, Musk said. SpaceX will also have to secure another launch license from the U.S Federal Aviation Administration, which is currently investigating, along with SpaceX, exactly what happened on the April 20 launch. Technical readiness is only part of the picture, however. ![]() The next mission will have the same basic goal as the first - get Starship's 165-foot-tall (50 meters) upper stage partway around Earth, and bring it down near Hawaii. The billionaire entrepreneur went on to say that the launch pad and the next Starship vehicle should be ready to launch in six to eight weeks. SpaceX's 1st orbital Starship looks supercool in these fueling test photos Elon Musk says SpaceX could launch a Starship to the moon 'probably sooner' than 2024: report Starship and Super Heavy: SpaceX's Mars-colonizing transportation system The new system "is basically a water-jacketed sandwich that's two layers of plate steel that are also perforated on the upper side," Musk said, comparing it to a "massive, super-strong steel shower head pointing upward." The company plans to replace the destroyed concrete beneath Starbase's orbital launch mount with a sturdy steel plate, which will spout water to deal with Super Heavy's powerful exhaust. ![]() But we don't want to do that again."Īnd SpaceX is taking measures to prevent a recurrence, he added. ![]() "It's just like a sandstorm, essentially - basically a human-made sandstorm. "The debris is really just basically sand and rock, so it's not toxic at all or anything," Elon Musk said on Saturday night. The liftoff also kicked up a huge cloud of debris, which rained down on the surrounding area. (Thirty Raptors, rather the vehicle's flight software shut down three engines almost immediately after detecting problems with them, Musk said on Saturday.) ![]() Starship's first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, caused some damage at Starbase on April 20, blasting a big crater out beneath the site's orbital launch mount with its 33 Raptor engines. ![]()
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