Spacex launches SN15 and sticks the landing

Space.com ^ | 05/05/2021 | mike Wall

[markman46]

I am a supporter of all thing nasaspaceflight. The youtube channel and the website. I watched the live stream yesterday of the flight. They have one up showing the recovery of sn15 plus a shot of sn16 peeking out of the highbay.

[markman46]

This is only for testing landing ability and the FAA will only allow 10km flight, a test booster has already been made and stacked it will have 20 odd raptor engines to boost starship into orbit. Still and all wonderful to watch the development of a new launch vehicle in public view. I just wish I was young enough to good on a trip to mars.

[Magnum44]

You will be able to someday in your 'memories'

[markman46]

LOL!!!!, damn i am still to old

[Truth29]

Thanks for the research, but no. I might have my decades wrong, but what I remember is a vertical rocket not one that runs along a ramp. It is a fun history exercise anyway.

[Truth29]

"SpaceX and musk are developing starship on their own dime"

Thanks, I thought he was a NASA contractor and got Federal funding. So much the better if he doesn't.

[SunkenCiv]

His afterword -- a kind of new thing for his vids -- is a ringing rip of the left, including a discussion of SNL, and is a must-see.

Elon Musk: Might Try to Refly Starship SN15 Soon | SpaceX in the News | spaceXcentric | May 7, 2021

[SunkenCiv]

SpaceX's Starship Prototype Takes To The Skies And Returns Safely | Scott Manley | May 6, 2021

After A week of preparation the latest Starship Prototype SN15 successfully demonstrated the complete landing maneuver required for Starship to operate. The flight was mostly hidden behind a layer of clouds which blocked cameras on the ground, and because the onboard cameras weren't delivering video data as expected. However after a flight to 10 kilometers and a descent in a high drag belly flop orientation the vehicle relit its engines, returned to the vertical and carefully came to a stop on the landing pad.

[x]

This is a bit science fiction turning to fact.

Indeed. In 1953, Werner von Braun predicted in a novel that a ruler called the Elon would lead the human colonization of Mars.

And how things change. In the headlines, Werner von Braun isn't the guy who put us on the moon or the guy who launched Hitler's rockets on London, but just a "German scientist."

[SunkenCiv]

additional to what x said:

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-name-Elon-for-the-leader-of-human-colonists-in-Wernher-Von-Brauns-Project-Mars-book-just-coincidental