CatastrophicFailure

Best vid yet.

Having a spaceport right there, even a busy one, will probably be a boon to the local environment. Just look at the thriving, developer-free wetlands around KSC. Plus, it’s a good way to get turtle youngsters interested in spaceflight from an early age.

Well, Y’know, they say the same thing about bumblebees, bumblebees should not be capable of flight. Bumblebees continue to simply ignore this.

Oooooooooooh... aaahhhhhhhhhh..... Ahah, now it’s obvious why they translated... if they’d gone just straight up and down, they would hit the umbilical stack.

Starhopper: “peek-a-boo” By the looks of things they might wanna check for any loose balrogs, too.

There was a drone up... I wonder when we’ll get official footage?

It’s still there... I... think it moved...

Oh dang! SOMEthing just happened... happened to pull up an amateur livestream just as... well it might have...

That’s actually where it’s aimed, sort of. Boostack alone would send it into the ocean, it doesn’t maneuver on-target until the landing burn actually starts, in case of an OOPS like the stuck grid fins a while back.

Wow, you could really see how much the booster “glides” on its return in some of those shots.

Then maybe they’ll have two rockets in the air at once!

Yup, coming up in a couple hours after this, I wanna say like 5pm central? Just listen for the tweet storm.

‘Tis a silly place. Thread visited by the Lock Less Monster. ...gonna need about tree fiddy clicks...

Well... that’s one way to get SLS off the pad by 2020.

Hopper brain freeze.

Meanwhile...

A bit too gradatim in the ol’ ferociter, eh?

“A few?” I thought it was “any day now.” Or always the “next” one. What more could they possibly have to test at this point? If it’s “a few,” no way they fly people this year, unless they really step it up like @tater says.

Cluck.

I hadn’t heard this, but like @magnemoe said the newer Octaweb is designed to protect against a RUD... proliferating. Since they have experience, I’m sure SpaceX is considering that with SH too. You were right in the first count, STS-400 was still the contingency plan for the final Hubble servicing mission. The problem here is that two shuttles were never designed to dock. Again, knowing this, and their overall plans, I presume SpaceX will design Starships to be able to dock to each other. One reason why Starship will not be using hypergols. At least not at that pressure.

No idea how they plan on Superheavy, but an early Falcon 9 did have one and still made orbit. IIRC the new octaweb is supposed to be even stronger and contain any failure. SH would likely be similar. Send up a rescue ship. Rapid reusability is the end goal, here. Once that’s in play, sending an impromptu rescue within hours suddenly becomes plausible.

Pain, I’m sorry to say. Pain the likes of which you probably can’t imagine if you’ve never lost a tooth that didn’t want to come out. The after meds aren’t too bad, will mostly make you sleepy. The during meds, well... there is a certain downside to living in an age where everyone and their brother has a video camera and YouTube account. mumble mumble is this real life? Also, Novocain is tricky, try not to bite though your own lip. don’t ask me how I know.

Welp... it’s definitely a car... Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park. Populated by strange dark shapes... Pix incoming...

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