SPACE X JUST CAUGHT A ROCKET, IN MID-AIR, ON THEIR FIRST ATTEMPT ! !
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LET'S GOOoOoooo!!!
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Wow. That was well done.
u/#classywow
Inspiring to see. My dad, a former engineer for NASA contractors, would have loved it. This is how it should be done.
NASA eating the peanuts out of Space X’s shit.
The people who say this have zero clue that NASA's actual mission is to create a commercial space segment. They're actually just doing what their charter says.
The only reason the shuttle existed was to create this market and to bring DoD payloads up, and critically, back down again.
This is a bus for rich tourists.
Ya'll are hilarious.
Good then we can fire them all.
Elon will take care of that
…or Trump
Both have A LOT of experience in firing A LOT of people.
But as a result they do it at the most astronomical cost they can until Elon came along
They were human rated from day 1.
They had no prior art to go on.
You have absolutely no idea how massive and impressive any of our space programs were. The shuttle was a fucking beast. Forget anyone who says otherwise. They're just repeating popular gossip because they're clueless little girls who want to be "in."
Read the history for yourself.
What is extra impressive about this is that it had to be a specific orientation.
NASA is being emasculated by SpaceX. Boeing and the like as well.
Boeing can't even keep doors on planes, let alone return astronauts they brought up.
SpaceX for the win.
Trump told Boeing they were charging too much for new AF1's and the immediately dropped the price $1 Billion.
Boeing is a huge part of the MIC.
I am impressed! To keep such a load stable upright and then maneuvering carefully in a tight spot.
Well done!
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Rigging for red is right. How could a young person or male not vote for Elon/Trump after seeing such a thing?
Excellent
That is what DEI will NOT get you….success. Congratulations to all of the SpaceX team…well done!
Very impressive, here's another view : https://nitter.poast.org/teslacarsonly/status/1845456571427356846#m
NASA would need another 100 years and 37,000 more LGBTQRP+-/? Hires in the DEI Department to barely understand what just happened.
NOT ONLY the DEI hires would not work, but think of the thermodynamics/material science/clamp ability/fuel mixture/heat transfer/bi-directional thruster/electronic guidance REQUIRED ALL OF THE FOLLOWING DISCIPLINES: MECHANICAL STRUCTURAL CHEMICAL CIVIL COMPUTER SCIENCE ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC------->ALL OF THE ENGINEERING SCIENCES...
What just took place opens up a whole new "breed" of engineering that hasn't been seen since the '70s!!!!!!
OUTSTANDING JOB!!!!
Nasa should be bleeding engineers who want to do real work with out all the faux science.
Sounds like they can bleed engineers all day long, but what they have to hold on to are their camera crews and sound stage men.
That was wild 👀
Funny, as I was watching this for the first time I described it as being “absolutely insane” and that’s exactly how she described it shortly thereafter.
That is sooo cool wow
That is so impressive. Glad I'm alive to see it.
How high up did it go before it came back down? Seems like there might not have been enough fuel to go up and down if it had flown into outer space.
That was the booster of a two stage rocket. The rest of the rocket went into orbit after detaching from the booster.
The booster's mission is to push the ship up above the atmosphere, where the ships more efficient engines and lower fuel load can take it into orbit. So the booster does go into "space" but not for long
Yeah, but the craziest thing is that fucker TURNS AROUND and goes back to the pad from which it launched.
Yes, but this isn't totally new. Spacex has been landing falcon 9 boosters RTLS for nearly a decade.
Don't get me wrong, it's incredible. It's a huge step, but for spacex it is also a baby step. With starship they have effectively eliminated the landing legs vs f9 and eliminated the need to put the booster back on its launch mounts. Rapid reusability. The booster can be fully fuelled in 40 minutes and there can be another starship waiting to be stacked by the chopsticks, so theoretically they will be able to launch 200T to LEO every hour or two (per launch tower) with the same reliability and safety as a modern airliner (not Boeing, though)
Peak altitude for the booster was 96km. Starship obviously went much further after separation.
This boosts my suspicions that Elon is actually a space alien from the future. .... Trump too, I mean, how can the guy be so fearless, its like he already knows the future.😃😃😃😃
As a former launch operations engineer at VAFB, my take on this is, United Launch Alliance (Lockheed Martin Astronautics / Boeing Corp.) is fucked. Every other launch provider as well. The French Ariane, the Russians, everybody will have to play catch-up real quick.
Sounds like 2-Birds-1-Stone.
Space X puts the U.S. Space Force in a league of its own.
And makes all products of the Deep State obsolete.
Unbelievable!!
Did nasa hire Dillon Mullaney yet so they could stage first "woman" on mars next week?