I think you would make a great Dr.Smith, stowing away on one of the Starships heading to Mars.

true!!!

but life on mars, and traveling to and from have to be miserable. think of going to the ugliest, nastiest, worst place on earth, and being stranded there. mars is worse

But Mars is nothing like Los Angeles!

Yep. I was just there. Never been happier to leave anywhere more than when I left LA.

Everytime I watch this, it makes my eyes watery.

Just had a successful static fire of Starship. The first flight is next week!!! Elon says it has a 33% chance of landing in one piece. Should be fun.

how many foreign govts did we overthrow to fund that?

For those who are still mesmerized by 150 foot rocket boosters landing on their own in one piece - check this out! It's the last SpaceX Falcon 9 landing imaged by the Air Force. All 14 minutes are cool but first go to the 12 minute mark and go FULL SCREEN. Then watch the booster do it's entry burn, go subsonic (watch the smoke rings) and then finally land. I had no idea that the boost took such a large angle of attack!!! That's crazy. I never knew it did that. Maybe they're practicing the starship flip maneuver?

https://images.nasa.gov/details-KSC-..._Views-3263265

SpaceX is scheduled to launch Starship SN8 tomorrow (Tuesday) sometime after 9am EST! Could be several hours after. The plan is to send the rocket on a flight to a 12.5 km (41,000 ft) height. At this point, the rocket will do a belly flop and "skydive" with it's fins to the landing pad. As it gets closer to the ground, it will reignite it's engines and rotate to a vertical position and use retro-propulsion to land vertically. None of this has ever been done before.

Elon puts the chance of a successful flight and landing at 33%. This promises to be a spectacular flight one way or the other.

Starship SN8, Elon standing at the bottom for scale:


Links to watch the flight
Twitch Space/science guy I follow that will be covering the launch:
www.twitch.com/ej_sa

NASASpaceFlight (Not affiliated with NASA) youtube channel with multiple camera's around the launch area:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLpN8Cco3mU

Everyday Astronaut Youtube channel with camera's at the launch area:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlryDJqWalI

SpaceX official video broadcast (begins about 2 min before launch):
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Launch time estimate is now somewhere around 4pm est.

SpaceX just posted that they are now targeting 5:30pm EST for the launch!

Propellants are being loaded now. NASA chase plane is circling above!

Are you in the space industry Mark or just an interested observer?

Oh wow. Just noticed the delay, I checked in just in time!

I'm just a huge SpaceX and space in general fan. I've a few friends that work at SpaceX.

Booooooo

Damn

Booo. Abort at 1 second.

Thanks for the heads up, twitch stream was entertaining and informative even though it was aborted

One thing I like about EJ's stream is that he has permission of both Nasaspaceflight and SpaceX to rebroadcast their streams.

It was pretty funny when spaceX tipped him $1 after the abort.

A friend of mine just started working with SpaceX and messaged me about getting me on there. Man I would love that, but there is no way I would move to freaking Brownsville.

Any news from the people you know about them opening up more facilities in Trxas not so far South?

I'm not positive but they may have a small design center in Austin. I know Tesla is building a huge factory there.

I thought my stream froze, tomorrow then?

is there a live stream of the workers he's exploiting?

Yes. LabPadre streams the SpaceX Boca Chica operations facility 24/7. You can see an almost completed Starship SN9 through the door of the large building. It will be ready to launch after Starship SN8 "completes" it's flight.