Big boosts to fill: SpaceX's giant IPO

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, why are young men souring on Donald Trump,

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  and how the Judgment of Paris changed the world of wine.

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  But first,

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  Later today, SpaceX are going to try to launch the third version of

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  their enormous, powerful, and very troublesome Starship rocket.

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  Tim Cross is a senior science writer at The Economist.

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  The launch has been postponed over and over again.

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  It was supposed to happen on Tuesday, then Wednesday, then Thursday.

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  We got the vehicle totally loaded.

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  We hit a couple of different holds as we worked through that count.

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  Again, new rocket, new pad, we're learning about a lot about these systems

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  as we execute them for the first time,

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  and we're not able to basically troubleshoot all of these issues

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  in those final seconds to get to launch.

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  The aim of the mission, which is Starship's 12th test flight,

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  is to try out a whole series of upgrades

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