--- title: "Elon Musk Releases Video Showing Interior of Starship Prototype" description: "SpaceX CEO Elon Musk uploaded a video on Tuesday showing the cavernous and unfinished inside of the space company’s gargantuan Starship prototype. Inside Starship cargo bay. Header tanks mounted in tip of nosecone to offset engine weight at rear. pic.twitter.com/EJSwqMCooA — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2019 Musk revealed the stainless steel prototype during a […]" date: "2019-10-01" modified: "2019-10-01" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-inside-starship-prototype" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "Space" - "SpaceX" - "Starship" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "SpaceX" - "Starship" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk Releases Video Showing Interior of Starship Prototype ![SpaceX CEO Elon Musk uploaded a video on Tuesday showing the cavernous and unfinished inside of the space company's gargantuan Starship prototype.]() *\Image: SpaceX/Victor Tangermann\* ## Echo! SpaceX CEO Elon Musk uploaded a video on Tuesday showing the cavernous, unfinished interior of the space company's gargantuan Starship prototype. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1178931253229187072 Musk [revealed]() the stainless steel monstrosity during a presentation at SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas testing site on Saturday. The hope is that it'll one day allow up to 100 passengers to travel to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The record-breaking rocket will eventually be 160 feet tall and twice as powerful, according to Musk, as NASA’s retired Saturn V rocket that took American astronauts to the Moon during the Apollo missions. ## Hollow Steel At this point, SpaceX's prototype is a giant stainless steel tube with massive header tanks in the nose cone and [three Raptor engines]() in the rear. Four fins along the side of the rocket will help it orient itself during controlled descent. It will have to deal with some off-the-charts forces when it will go through testing in the coming months. "There’s so much power going through this engine that it’s close to the limit of the known physics of materials in many places," [Musk tweeted]() on Friday. As for the, uh, prominent welds on the outside of the steel structure, Musk promised that the "production version will be a lot more polished than this prototype, but still fun to see," in a [Tuesday tweet](). **READ MORE:** [Elon Musk video lets us peep inside SpaceX Starship]() \[*CNET*\] **More on Starship:** *[SpaceX Releases Beautiful Diagrams of Starship, Super Heavy]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()