Posted on 05/05/2021 4:12:07 PM PDT by markman46
paceX launches Starship SN15 rocket and sticks the landing in high-altitude test flight By Mike Wall 8 minutes ago
"Landing nominal," Elon Musk says.
Click here for more Space.com videos... SpaceX's SN15 stuck the landing.
The private spaceflight company's latest Starship prototype aced a high-altitude test flight today (May 5), checking every box from takeoff to touchdown for the first time.
"We are down! The Starship has landed," John Insprucker, SpaceX's principal integration engineer, said during live commentary.
Today's uncrewed test came on the 60th anniversary of the United States' first-ever crewed spaceflight, the suborbital jaunt of NASA astronaut Alan Shepard. The historical parallel is coincidental but appropriate, for SN15's success marks a big step forward in SpaceX's plans to help extend humanity's footprint out into the final frontier.
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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.
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.
LOL!!!!, damn i am still to old
Thanks, I thought he was a NASA contractor and got Federal funding. So much the better if he doesn't.
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
SpaceX's Starship Prototype Takes To The Skies And Returns Safely | Scott Manley | May 6, 2021After 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.
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."
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