In the long arc of humanity's reach toward the stars, ambition has always outpaced the calendar. SpaceX's Elon Musk has quietly revised his promise to catch a returning Starship with its launch tower—pushing the milestone from 'next flight' to 'a few months away'—a retreat that speaks less to failure than to the stubborn complexity of building something genuinely new. The delay matters not only to investors who bought into the reusability premise when SpaceX went public, but to NASA, whose Artemis lunar program depends on Starship's economics holding together. Progress is undeniable; the quest