From: jfindley@cinci.nospam.rr.com   
      
   In article , doc@tardis.org says...   
   >   
   > you call them starships but they lose 99% of the mass after take off and   
   > reenter the atmosphere as a tiny capsule.....LOL   
   >   
   > still to be seen a TRUE starship that takes off and reenter in its entirety.   
      
   You must be thinking of Boeing's Starliner, which is a crewed capsule   
   for ISS crew rotations.   
      
   SpaceX's Starship is an entirely different beast.  Starship is the upper   
   stage of a fully reusable TSTO.  I'd anticipate that the first version   
   of Starship will be the cargo version with a large clamshell door for   
   the payload bay.  NASA has also given SpaceX a contract to study a   
   crewed lunar landing version of Starship which literally dwarfs all of   
   the other crewed lunar lander proposals.   
      
   Jeff   
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