Some ideas are too early. Others just wait for Elon Musk Back in 1962, engineers, led by aerospace visionary Robert Truax at Aerojet, dreamed up the 'Sea Dragon', the biggest rocket ever designed. It would have been 150 meters tall and 23 meters wide, launching straight from the sea to cut costs and avoid massive launch towers and cooling systems. The idea was so bold it drew serious interest from NASA and Todd Shipyards, but the technology and timing weren’t ready, so it never flew. Today, Elon Musk made that dream real. Starship carries the same bold vision: massive scale, lower costs, and rethinking how rockets should work. What Sea Dragon imagined on paper, Starship is now bringing to life