It was beautiful.
Just like the simulations we have been seeing for years!
Spectacular achievement!
Watch Kamala and the FAA try to take the credit!
“... They just caught the booster in the chopsticks! ...”
It landed in China?....................
I couldn’t believe my eyes. I thought for certain they’d lost it when the vehicle angled into the tower with a fire going on in one of the corners. I am so impressed!
Manned missions to mars is crazy talk today, like catching the booster was yesterday.
Largest flying object, ever, caught by mechazilla.
Some live coverage. They are almost as excited about this as I am. Friggin’ AWESOME!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC87WmFN_As
Non YouTube version and shorter clip :
SpaceX Starship launch tower successfully catches Super Heavy booster
https://rumble.com/v5iip7x-spacex-starship-launch-tower-successfully-catches-super-heavy-booster.html
That was amazing. Today is my birthday (71), and that was the best birthday present ever.
Elon Musk is a steely eyed missile man!
Elon and his team did this. Not a bloated, out-of-control, lying, and intrusive government.
It is something we can be proud of in a screwed-up world.
Enjoy!
Holy chit! Fantastic!
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That was so cool. I can’t see that enough times.
Can someone please reach out to Elon and ask to have my twitter account reinstated?
I received a permanent ban for reporting death threats against DJT. I was initially suspended and after being reinstated, I followed Dan Bongino and then was immediately permanently banned.
I am in a ‘read only’ mode but am limited to freaking TEN POSTS per day.
I regularly see people who wished death and violence on Republicans are still happily posting away.
bttt
Wracking my brain as to how they get that elegant a performance from the rocket engine and maneuvering mechanism that guides the booster back into the cradle so smooth and precisely, and then almost as a sly wink to the viewer, it shuts down the engine without any apparent effort by anyone. It’s the code. The people who wrote the code, and the engineered fluid smoothness of the hardware in performing the instructions in the code. By what means does the booster sense the location of the launch “cradle” and flawlessly guide itself back there to it, and upon coming silkily to rest, shut down the engine, wordlessly declaring, “Mission accomplished”?