Posted on 10/13/2024 7:11:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz
SpaceX launched its fifth test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday and made a dramatic first catch of the rocket’s more than 20-story tall booster.
The achievement marks a major milestone toward SpaceX’s goal of making Starship a fully reusable rocket system.
Elon Musk’s company launched Starship at 8:25 a.m. ET from its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. The rocket’s “Super Heavy” booster returned to land on the arms of the company’s launch tower nearly seven minutes after launch.
“Are you kidding me?” SpaceX communications manager Dan Huot said on the company’s webcast.
“What we just saw, that looked like magic,” Huot added.
“SpaceX is leaving them in the dust”
Which is a perfect example of why the federal government needs to get the hell out of businesses like mail delivery and rail transportation and let companies that actually know how to do it handle it in an effective efficient manner.
Can you buy stock in SpaceX.
And the thing is, Musk also brings an element of style to everything he does.
His rocketship looks a lot like the streamlined rocketships that adorned the covers of 1950’s and 1960’s sci-fi magazines and books.
His launch of a Tesla with a spacesuited ‘driver’ brought mental images of a very similar scene in the opening of the 1970’s animated film “Heavy Metal”.
I think so, but be prepared to pay a prince's ransom for a single share.
True dat.
Watched live the flight in. The video of the plasma field around the spacecraft was one for the ages. A lot can be learned from that.
They might eat a Deep State boot to the teeth - since a lot of those planned launches carry military satellites.
The Coastal Commission needs to stay in its lane and stick to banning celebrity swimming pools along the coast.
“if landing rocket boosters and reusing them was easy every other country would be doing it, so far none of them have successfully done it...”
Trust me, nasa will be dead last
Hubby found the whole video launch and return of the booster. It’s totally incredible. This is a new era. Marking this one in my personal history book of things I’ve seen in my lifetime.
Thanks Laz - that was awesome!
And that Tesla he launched with Starman was his personal candy apple red Roadster (IIRC).
Yes! Watched the whole thing live. That catch was nothing short of amazing.
And Musk is working to make this sort of thing routine while running a rocket assembly line designed for reuse.
He says getting on a rocket should be like getting in a car. You don’t throw your car away after you use it.
Perhaps, why reinvent the wheel, if SpaceX can do it, either use them for the landings or pay them for the technology, other countries don’t have that luxury.
Kamala can just seize the patents. Yes, she can do that.
In today’s NASA, failure IS an option.
If NASA had that tech Biden would have already sold it to the Chicoms.
Thanks Laz. This is the fifth test, the first one was *last year*. Development of this launch system has cost about $5 billion. NASA, Boeing, Blue Origin can’t cater a conference for that little. :^)
From 1989 to 2019 I worked for the DoD in support of the US Navy aviation warfighter.
Around 2003 when Nelson was a senator he showed up in the jet engine building I was working in, my facility was full of retired and military veterans who were overwhelmingly conservative.
I don’t know if he expected people to flock around him or what but nobody even gave that moron a second look.
After a few minutes of being completely ignored he finally walked out......what a dipshit.
I can’t get enough of the nerds cheering and pumping their fists. I’m happy-crying.
Wrong. What CaCaLand is doing is wrong, evil. If you just let it go, it is like saying that it is OK for pedos — so long as they don’t hurt children where I can see them.
Always oppose evil.
It would be on the private market. It is not a “publicly traded” company.
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