Rockets need a hug too! Starship becoming fully reusable is our ticket to Kardashev civilization.

SpaceX's development of a fully reusable Starship vehicle could significantly reduce launch costs and enable the scale of space infrastructure necessary for humanity to achieve Type I Kardashev civilization status (the ability to harness a star's total energy output). Musk suggests that reusability represents a critical technological breakthrough for advancing toward interplanetary civilization and resource utilization at civilizational scales.

Source: Elon Musk (X) | 2026-05-20