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Elon admits something i've been saying for years: heat tile loss will doom the ship.
It was shedding tiles even during the ascent, footage from NASA's WB-57 tracking aircraft:

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Space shuttle was infamous for tile loss as well, made worse by possibility of foam strike from ET, does X-37B not suffer from this issue because it rides up inside a fairing?
 
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