Posted on 10/11/2026 4:14:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. "The Holy Grail of Rocketry" continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship.
Starship -- The Holy Grail of Rocketry | 28:29
SpaceX | 7M subscribers | 2,498,739 views | September 18, 2026
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YouTube transcript reformatted at textformatter.ai *may* follow, but it took a while for YouTube to kick out the raw transcript (and loading and reloading three different uploads to get one transcript). I have it now, it's long-ish, and the video is worth watching. If you don't think so, don't watch it, and don't comment in the topic. See? That's how that works.
If you do decide to post the transcript, do not put it as a reply to me, period. I'll leave a link below to facilitate that.
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[Starship — The Holy Grail of Rocketry]
And we can build this dream together
Nothing’s gonna stop us now
Popular Science had a spread of set photos and such when the movie was coming out. AFter the project was completed, Kubrick ordered all the sets destroyed because he didn’t want any sequels.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=kubrick+ordered+2001+sets+destroyed
Rocket Science - kewl!
Ship 40 Makes it Home - Starbase Summary
12:43
NASASpaceflight
1.53M subscribers
12,524 views
October 11, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyzUCghvy0g
Knee deep in the hoopla
“Knee deep in the hoopla”
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Yep. People going all weak-kneed over a press release.
The pop culture reference went right over your head.
CC
This is the one that landed w of Australia, apparently near the ‘other’ Christmas Island, and that’s in the Roaring 40s! Durable dang thing! Yeoman work getting it back to Texas, even by any women who may have been involved.
I consider “outer space” to be outside of our solar system. They (space writers) treat near-Earth and lunar expeditions as outer space.
That’s because they’re correct.
Excellent
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Yep 😊
Who cares?
They’re always changing
Corporation Names
Who cares?
They’re always changing
Corporation Names
Yeah, the women did ok ……….for women! Although when one walked by in the control room wearing tight white jeans, I momentarily took my eye off the trajectory monitor. I find that women are a distraction when trying to follow rocket science.
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