SpaceX-History Starship Chopstick Catch of Booster (Vanity)

Spacex ^ | 10/13/2024 | rlmorel

[rlmorel]

Spacex Successfully launched and returned the booster!

[Shady]

X and “The Launch Pad” on YouTube has it all, Starship is currently in orbit. Absolutely amazing!

[Shady]

Not like this. 350+ landings of Falcon 9, this is the super heavy booster, unlike anything that has flown before. Makes Saturn5 look like an Estes rocket.

[rlmorel]

Heh, I just cannot wait to see the Starship itself come down. This is like making the transition from the Wright Brothers Flyer to the B-29 Superfortress.

Unbelievable.

[Yardstick]

And thanks for the original post! A historic event for sure.

[rlmorel]

But, if you listen to the Left, he has the Nazi credentials!

Screw them. Leftist Libtards can have NASA and Boeing.

I’ll throw in with SpaceX.

[rlmorel]

And we get to watch it. In real time. People didn’t find out about the Wright Brothers until some later time, and we had millions watching this.

StarShip reentry going on now!

[rlmorel]

Seeing the plasma flow now during reentry!!!!

[bigfootbob]

Hopefully this will totally convince both to shed their shared DEI orthodoxy. Boeing is in a world of hurt right now and needs to make some very hard decisions, can they do it? If they watched this video, just maybe.

[hoagy62]

Atospheric Inter phase in progress. You can see the plasma building up on Starship!

[SunkenCiv]

...now we'll cut away to our field reporter in China, interviewing CCP space program spokesman Ho Lee Fook...

Starship development (wikiwacky) about $5 billion. Let that sink in. Today marked its fifth flight test, its first one was *last year*.

The booster has more than twice the thrust of the Saturn V -- and SpaceX just did its first test flight catch test. There was one apparent anomaly, something was flaring near the end of the landing, but this is astounding!

[Pollard]

The Launch Pad and any live feed on youtube keeps shutting down on me. “Oops, something went wrong”

I don’t see any live events on X.

[StAnDeliver]

That was ... amazing.

This Starship de-burn is nominal, could use a better view.

[null and void]

I am broken-hearted about what has happened to both Boeing and NASA.

I so admired both of them at one time.

Me too.

But speaking as a septuagenarian, there comes a time when the alte kakers must step aside...

[Salamander]

Now the left hates “African Americans”?

The irony is so ironic.

[rlmorel]

I am not hopeful. When I (we) speak out against DIE (DEI) the Left paints it as sexism, racism, you name it.

But the accomplishments of SpaceX belie that slander that opposition to DIE is any of those things.

Because I fully support those engineers of all races and both sexes at SpaceX who accomplished this feat today.

The proof is in the pudding. I oppose DIE because I oppose incompetence and failure.

[hoagy62]

Burn through on one of the flaps....

[aquila48]

Bookmark

[rlmorel]

I am with you on that.

[rlmorel]

I assume they will be able to pull this out of the drink to study it closer.

[SunkenCiv]

This is nervewracking. :^o :^)