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Posted on 10/14/2025 9:08:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
SpaceX did it again. At 6:23 p.m. local time — eight minutes late, but who's counting? — the most powerful rocket in history, launched on a column of flame from Starbase, Texas, delivered its second stage to a hot separation, then minutes later made a perfect water landing in the Gulf of America.
Even before the Super Heavy first stage had successfully completed its part of Integrated Flight Test 11 (IFT-11), the Ship second stage's six engines moved it to near-orbital velocity, initiating a series of flight, deployment, and engine tests before making its own water landing half a world away in the Indian Ocean.
"Starship's eleventh flight test reached every objective, providing valuable data as we prepare the next generation of Starship and Super Heavy," the company posted to X, one of SpaceX founder Elon Musk's other companies.
Musk shared a stunning view of the booster's return, along with a little context:
The rocket came back from space at hypersonic speed and then hovered at a precise position https://t.co/Bzc9rz5htj— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 14, 2025
Of last night's Super Heavy booster (known as B15-2) 33 Raptor 3 engines, 24 were "flight proven" — i.e., they were reused from previous launches. Super Heavy is rapidly achieving the rapid and inexpensive reuse necessary to make possible both the Artemis missions to Luna and SpaceX's missions to Mars.
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I love it. It is watching history in the making.
It was amazing to watch
Looks like Bezos rocket just went limp.
I love every second of that flight, last one off of yhe original launch mount. Even watching the starlink Sims being released was cool. And ya jeffy b is lim
“It is watching history in the making.”
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It definitely was. It was nice to see all that testing and experimentation that was part of earlier Starship launches pay off for Musk and the men and women of SpaceX. Keep that good work up.
I can hardly wait to see what V3 and V4 bring. The V3 platform should be well within the estimate 200T to orbit capacity...
A truly amazing effort to witness. I just wish I could contribute directly...
SpaceX's Starship Program makes its final flight of its V2 Booster and Starship, delivering a mission which appears to have met all the planned goals with no unexpected failures or explosions.The End Of SpaceX Starship V2 - What Now? | 21:43
Scott Manley | 1.81M subscribers | 281,882 views | October 14, 2025
It’s really wonderful however I think Space X is still 20-30 years from landing on Mars
I have to say, it has been difficult for me, an old man now, to relate to the nose-ringed, t-shirted young people who were jumping up and down at SpaceX with each success.
I grew up in a different time with different heroes, and it has been hard for me to come to grips with the crowd at SpaceX, and be able to draw that parallel to the white-shirted, neck-tied men of NASA Mission Control.
But watching them, and seeing this brilliant, well-planned mission achieve its goals, I was able to make that connection.
Watching them made me as proud of my country as any NASA event that I ever observed.
John F. Kennedy doesn’t have a lot of people in the conservative movement today who have good things to say about him (even though I believe he would absolutely be a conservative today rather than a Leftist)
But as I watched that young crowd jumping up and down with well-deserved, ecstatic joy, I thought of John F. Kennedy.
I realized that a torch had not only been passed in our space industry, but that torch had also been passed in my own heart.
I disagree. I fully believe I will see it in my lifetime, should I be blessed to live a normal life span and see it. I believe it will be 5-10 years.
Starship’s self-flying feature still has some bugs in it.
We’ll have to agree to disagree about JFK, but I loved your post.
That is quite alright to disagree on something like that...:)
LOL
They already have the math worked out, it’s just getting the engineering part machined correctly. You’d have a point if we hadn’t already sent probes to Mars and a good idea of what it takes to get there...
But, we do... Elon’s grand scheme is staggering in scope... and I am skeptical the “final form” will be anything like what he has stated his current vision is... but he’s proven to be flexible...
Evolve or die... That’s capitalism for you... and that’s a good thing.
And they were mostly Caucasian..
There’s a teeny little reason for that...
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/8126549002
tab down to the part where they ask for your undergraduate/graduate/doctoral GPA, your SAT/ACT/GRE scores, all the schools you went to and degrees earned (or not), etc.
You don’t get in there without winning this little race. And it’s entirely bullet proof because things like grades and scores are rather hard data...no DEI crap at Planet Musk.
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