SpaceX

Not actually SpaceX...

And Starliner is in orbit!

Nice having two US crew delivery options to the ISS.

interesting... let's get them home before celebrating.

Starship launch #4 tomorrow (Thursday) morning!!! The launch window opens at 7am CDT!!!

Goal so for the Starship to get through reentry heating. And for the booster to simulate a virtual "catch" above the gulf then sink.

I'll be watching on https://www.twitch.tv/ej_sa

But there is the official site:
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/...

NSF: (I think link is correct)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTkhv4fv...

As SpaceX says: Excitement Guaranteed!!!!!!!

Launch pushed 20 min to 7:20am (CDT)

I've got the NSF stream up. It's still T-6:30 and an all-star cast with the NSF guys and EJ and Scott Manley are talking.

Less than 28 minutes to liftoff at 7:50am!

Wow!!! Booster landed on the Gulf!!!!

OMG OMG OMG

The Starship kind of got through reentry and did it's flip, landing burn and slow splash down in the ocean.

That front flap was falling apart during reentry!

But both Booster and Starship landed! Exactly as planned.

Before launch, I would have put both Booster and Starship soft landing in the ocean at about 1%.

I'm in shock and amazed.

Granted, SpaceX has some tile issues to figure out.

F*CKING amazing... watching that booster hover was AWESOME.
every aspect was shear brilliance... even the starlink integration.

First 3 videos of it Ioaded on YouTube to watch were fake elon pumping bitcoin vids. The scammers are aggressive.

More not SpaceX - Boeing Starliner docking with ISS - 11:15 CDT

Starliner has developed several Helium leaks... could be trouble, but the engineers have 'polled' go for docking.

Skyshowtv is my new FAVORITE channel...

they are the company that is reasonable for much of the engineering footage seen over the decades. they finally launched a channel of their own for non critical or secret footage.

watch that entire video all the way to the end for an amazing results... Hotstage and self destruct, in 4k if you can.

the reason the footage looks sideways is because they are using as much of the CCD and Film as possible in 21:9.

Bonus... Virgin Galactic.

Scott Manley recap of this mornings flight

Check out EJ's twitch stream from this morning launch. From time 2:38:00 into the stream to 3:03:00 or so is some of the wildest stuff I've ever ever watched in space flight.

https://www.twitch.tv/ej_sa

I just watched it again. Damn. Congratulations SpaceX.

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Elon says that he wants to catch the next one. That is going to be a crazy sight.

that just sounds overly complicated to me... but he's never ceases to amaze me.

Starship’s fifth flight test is preparing to launch as soon as October 13!!!

The catch attempt will be 😮

The Starship launch and booster catch attempt are a go for tomorrow at 7am (CDT)!!!! Should be spectacular!

I'll be watching EJ's twitch stream but there's a zillion feeds available.

https://www.twitch.tv/ej_sa

Lets do this! Launch in about 45 minutes.