SpaceX launches classified spy satellite, nails landing in California
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2022
- A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the secret NROL-87 payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Space Launch Complex 4E at California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Feb. 2, 2022. The first stage of the rocket touched down at Vandenberg near the launch site. Full Story: www.space.com/spacex-launches...
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I've seen these launches many times and no matter how many times I see them, I'm still amazed with the landings at the end.
Same thing, this is mesmerizing !
Every single rentry and landing, I am thinking : "Wow, this is so mad and badass"
SpaceX makes it look so easy, mind boggling engineering!
Can you imagine what it takes????
Multiple GPS satellites, firing up those nitrogen ports to steer the bottom end while the grid-fins control the top end… and somehow knowing, with data from previous crash landings, exactly when and where to fire up the one booster while also knowing precisely the exact second thrust is engaged, held and then reduced for a soft landing???
@@jeffveron8783 exactly 🤯
My mind is bubbling over 🧠👀
They have done in short and with amazing success and simple engineering bases what NASA worked on for decades and could not get done-private industry and the will to succeed and not just out a government contract what a difference !
Just remember how many early fails they took to get here. Watching SpaceX's progression over the past decade plus has been an interesting evolution.
Hats off to the camera guy for holding on to the side of the rocket for the whole trip!
He got a mean grip on the head of the penis 😂
Always a stupid comment about the camera guy
@@ruudvonder2716 Humor is not your strong side, is it?
POSTING THIS ON REDDIT!!!!!1!!!! SO SO SO SO SO FUNNY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHHH HAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA HA
@@rinaldskalvis5071 since when does humor mean you have to enjoy the same exact joke a million times?
Insane! From take off, to delivering a payload, to landing upright dead on point...in less than 8.5 minutes.
One of the most amazing things about this is the end, "see you tomorrow for our starlink launch". It's not going to be long before we are going to see daily launches, that's just crazy.
Multiple same-day reuses of the same booster would be wild
We will be flinging shit into space like it is going out of fashion! :D
It'll all be wonderful, until the day and dispute comes where one of our geo-political enemies destroy a few satellites, either with lasers or missiles and fill the near earth orbit with debris. Russia already did this - as a test - I think less than a month ago. Seen the movie Gravity? Then you've seen what can happen.
@@erikehlert gravity is a dumb movie
@@Barsabus it may be dumb to you, but a sat test with debris killing other sattelites in orbit isn't too far from reality.
These launches and landings, lately, have been stunning. Great job SpaceX!
Ext how do they navigate back home? ( gps withstanding)
@@alancliff9208 they have little people inside that control it
@@nidhogg00 They're called Kerbals. This flight was piloted by the legendary Bob Kerman.
Yes indeed
@@alancliff9208 with a real response the grid wings move in a certain direction and wind goes through them guiding the 1st stage down to the pad.
This is just beautiful. I'll admit to tearing up watching this make a perfect landing. We as human species have come so far since we first took flight. I was born to late to explore the earth, to soon to explore the galaxy. Sad I wont be alive to see how far we make it in another hundred year or more.
Time, age are just numbers..... Never, ever, say too soon or too late..... world is in your grasps now.... Explore whatever you can..... It's never too late or too soon...... The world and space is your playground..... Never give up .... :)
Stay safe and be well !!! :)
@@pw6498 ahahhahaahahhaahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahha
You're 'tearing up' watching this?
That is absolutly crazy. Congratulations, piece of technology art you do guys.
What shooting a dildo to the sky 😂
Being 55 this lows me away. I use to dream of this stuff as a kid. It still feels like sci-fi to me.
I couldn’t agree more. When i watched the super heavy launch, and then land the tandem boosters, i was a child again in that moment… I feel like we’re witnessing the birth of real start trek.
At 64 years old and remembering all the Sci Fi I watched as a kid, it's just about all reality now . I wonder what kids today will be seeing when they reach my age 🤔
@@baron7024 well according to a new study they just discovered that warp "bubbles" are a real thing, so thats crazy. They tested it on a nano scale but if it can scale up, we could theoretically travel in ships at speeds like in star trek.
I'm 60, watched the moon landing in a kindergarten play hall on a B&W tv, read Arthur C. Clarke at 13; Bradbury, Heinlein, and Farmer at 18-21 ... the latter, 40 years before this just happened. Can't wait to see us get out there.
@@gregorysagegreene and alot of people think its fake haha. but you seen the landing with your own eyes, on tv. no doubt live broadcasted aswel.
Am 75 and its most exiting time to be able to witness this incredible leap for humanity . Its was all worthwhile. Thank you so much
My dad is going to be 76 this year and i can only imagine what 50+ years of innovation in his eyes looked like. As for me i have no idea what 50+ years will look like to me. It truly is amazing and i hope you have a wonderful day.
NASA - ASAN - SATAN is a lying creation of the satanic earth system we are in at the moment. We never went to the moon, all moon landing records were 'mysteriously lost' and copies 'damaged'. The idea of space is to renounce God and make us think of us as meaningless specs in endless space, when the opposite is true. Also, to portray demons as the alien 'higher race' to us, when the opposite is true. Have you noticed all 'space shuttles' bend down after launch after a while? None of them keep going up. All lies. The truth is, Christ made us and watches us every day.
@@johneric9957 of course they “bend”?…they’re trying to achieve orbit, not go straight out away from earth, never to return.
you know, every era had a group of Christian’s denouncing one technological advance or another. Many things we consume daily now without thought would’ve been unthinkable a thousand years ago.
Try being a little less hard headed and a little more compassionate & empathetic (like Jesus) and maybe you’ll have more success reaching people.
Also, the Bible is pretty specific on us actually being meaningless specks in the grand scheme of things. Our acts of righteousness - like filthy rags. Like ants or worms, a comparison David made. Lower than the angels. Etc…the beauty is that God chooses us and loves us, totally, unconditionally, despite that.
@@munashecaleb Read the Old Testament cosmology. Space is a lie. We are under a dome, on a double edged snowball but the circle of the earth inside is flat as a dish. The real Bible, Strong's Concordance linguistic English translation of the original hebrew and greek, is mindblowing and precise.
@@johneric9957 do you take everything in Bible literally?
The angle of this launch and viewability was quite different than what I'm used to seeing. The separation and boost back was impressive.
Space and back in 8 mins! Plus It lands so quickly and the legs come out at the absolute last second! Insane!
I watched the moon landings as a kid and I was blown away by them. These SpaceX landings give me the same thrill. Bravo SpaceX!! Amazing job!!!
You really do drink the kool aid, don’t you.
No one has ever been to the moon.
This shit is all fake. How can you not see that?
@@chichotwojay740 Sure buddy, keep telling yourself that
That is awesome. That must have been such a unique moment of thrill, pride, and a sense of wonderment and unity having watched the Moon landings. I sincerely hope I can witness the same with the first manned mission to Mars in the coming decade.
@@mario0318 the moon landings were some of the largest hoaxes ever perpetrated
@@chichotwojay740 nah I was there dawg, its real as fuck.
I love the thought that vertical landings where from fantasy movies and now it makes me feel that all things are possible.
Fantasy movies? You know it was done 6 times on the moon, supposedly.
@@TargusCrimbus that was done with much lighter loads at about 1/6th of Earths gravity. This feat of engineering being done by Spacex dozens of times a year is truly awe inspiring.
Try buying ice cream from McDonalds!
@@TargusCrimbus Lol Moon is Moon, here we are on Earth, not as easy as on the Moon ;)
@@Adrenalinlev That sounds so stupid when you really think about what you said.
In the 1960's a craft landed on the moon took off from the moon and connected with an orbiting craft. No one had any idea what the conditions on the moon were like yet there was no problem pulling this off. Much more difficult than the current nonsense with spacex.
Those landings never gets old
Dude, that landing was literally straight out of a sci-fi movie! These things are SO DAMN COOL!!!
thats because it is SCI-FI... nothing but fiction
@@mattiasspawn8385 oh yes, your whole life is actually an illusion, for example gravity is fake and doesn't exist. Trust me, if you jump off a roof you'll see 👀
That landing was like something out of an old sci-fi movie. Hard to believe they really can land one like that.
@Best UA-cam , so why are you here? To spread the gospel?
And the speed the rocket slows to, so close to the ground.
@Best UA-cam The character came by just to show us first hand just how idiotic conspiracy theory loons can be.
@@coriscotupi best speaks the truth! I can clearly see the wires!
@@calessassracer Yeah sure, sure. End of feeding the troll.
I watched this from my house today! Freakin phenomenal!
Finally, a video of this thing landing where the camera video doesn't cut out at the final moment of landing.
Fantastic. Inspirational stuff. So many moving parts, with so many praticed personel, and still it looks easy.
Congratulations to the entire Space X team, this is beyond impressive.
Somewhere, Bjarne Stroustrup is smiling.
Yeah,sending spy satellites in space with which they can disrespect our privacies and might even be against human rights is very impressive,yes,sure.
All for the money.
@@OompaL0ompa or to spy on china more like
@@OompaL0ompa dude you shouldn’t be so worried about a satellite tracking you. You already have a probe so far up your ass you’d be surprised. We all do, Our privacy was forfeited at least 40 years ago. You can’t wipe your ass without the government having some sort of record of it. that’s a real issue. Satellites on the other hand are used to track jihadis and missile sites, not civilians. Do you have plans to annihilate North America or stage a coup? Because that’s the type of shit they use spy sats for. Why would a govt use a satellite to track a guy on land they OWN? if you’re afraid of the govt hunting you down so they can take your guns or your weed or whatever, this isn’t an example of it
@@bluehornet6752 it No q on my calendar
great engineering!
That's an understatement
@@Manufak It‘s funny thinking how there are people out there, so uneducated in science they believe you can hear the sonic boom while moving with the object travelling faster than sound, trying to figure out how the hundreds of rocket launch videos must be fake
@@Manufak didnt know you were standing right underneath the rocket or calculated how far away the boom should still be significantly loud enough to identify when it went off in very light air at 8km high. but maybe you should go there. landings can be viewed publicly, live, right in front of it…
@@Manufak also warst du in kalifornien und hast den boom nicht gehört? :( tja das ist sehr merkwürdig, denn eine google suche gibt mir die antwort, dass man sogar mehrere sonic booms hört. ich glaube aber deine hörbehinderung ist nicht deine einzige
@@Manufak irgendwie witzig, dass deine gesamte argumentation auf einer falschen annahme (dass man nichts hört) aufbaut, und trotzdem alles falsch ist, was du sagst
Every time I see one of these successful re-landings I'm amazed all over again.
8:11 the most impressive thing about this video was that the live, on-board feed didn't cut out
Probably the best view of a landing yet, from the boosters perspective.
No, this is the best one yet without a doubt. Not sure which mission it was from, but still:
ua-cam.com/video/l_CgO1OfjG8/v-deo.html
The Live Onboard Photography on These Launches is Stunning. WOW !!!
Wondering if it's using the Starlink space network for streaming.
The amount of work, time, brilliant minds to make this look so simple. Crazy.
Absolutely mind blowing, beautiful. My parents and friends who worked on early rockets would be so proud to see these.
👍 No matter how many times I watch these, I always find it amazing just how fast the booster is still descending close to the ground, and how precisely it does the touchdown! Awesome. 😎 🇦🇺
man that just never gets old. it's amazing how far we have come as humans, since the invention of the wheel.
Technology wise , yes . in every other instance I think we are going backwards
@@KE6DOA ikr
Not all have come so far
@@KE6DOA Agreed. Personal freedoms being taken away, dictatorships across the globe growing in numbers thanks to Russia and China, far left Liberal policies in the west destroying those countries within, and resources being wasted across the globe. Its sad really.
@@erwina4738 sad is right. Technology has enhanced the evil-doers ability to confuse the populace with misinformation. For example, forging fake paper work to try to cast fake votes in the Electoral College for DT? "Alternate electors?" Trump admitted that he relied on Pence to overturn his election LOSS, and with his own words proved that Pence put the Constitution above blind obedience. To quote the self-described "stable genius," the depth of the corruption of the GOP is "unpresidented."
And somehow, technology has enabled the evil-doers to rationalize this reality for their mis-educated, fawning consumers.
That was simply beautiful. Great visual and sweet vertical landing.
I watched John Glenn's rocket go up when I was a kid. I am blown away at how far we've come since then.
Vandenburg, remember growing up on the base and watching the Atlas, Thor, and Minuteman launches. My dad was a Safety Officer for MM. Moved later to North Dakota.
No Titan IIs?
Oh man, this commentator is doing a such outstanding job! Such nice voice and knowledge of what's going on! This is so exciting to watch
I believe that she is an engineer who works at SpaceX
@@lordbored2706 Yep, it shows when for eg she doesn't waffle over the top of control net callouts like all the nasa and oldspace 'professional spokespeople'
It is still amazing to see a vertical landing of the first stage of the SpaceX booster!!!
Well done, guys. These launches, with their Stage 1 recoveries, are just something else.
These landings don’t get old. Awesome every time.
I'm turning blue from holding my breath in anticipation...0 oh I'm dead now
THEY JUST DID THEIR 175TH flight, and 130th 1st stage booster landing successfully
Weather wise, it was the perfect liftoff and landing of them all. Go SpaceX Go!
No one questioning what it is? I mean based on the Space forces recent priorities list, its more than likely the first of many Anti-satellite weapons/Defense weapons of existing satellites. Considering this is the US and how much of a pussy they are its probably defense only like a reflector of sorts.
This doesn't get the exposure it should, that this is now possible is amazing.
The lack of parachute usage is mindblowing.
Amazing stuff.
I've watched almost all of these launches/landings, and I think this is the best flight path and efficiency I've ever seen! Nice work tweaking SpaceX
Go Elon!
The booster is tweaking itself since it is essentially a flying robot with learning algorithms.
@@joebanks3698 Yea awesome, with help from organic tweakers too ; )
Yes that was really smooth. they are making it look easy
The one landing in the Ocean is my fav...I was like WOW!
Yay Elon! The guy who made his money on subsidies and now thinks no industry should be provided subsidies. Gotta close and lock that door once you pass the frame!
Just imagine, until space x came along, all these rockets are SINGLE use… crazy!
EKHEM space shuttle (orbiter and boosters), Buran(worked but was abandoned) New Shepard and X-15(kinda a rocket and technically went to space)
(and SpaceShipOne if it counts like X-15)
@@ImieNazwiskoOK The space shuttle wasn't a rocket, it was a shuttle with an external fuel tank which wasn't reused and the boosters also weren't reused. But right about the X-15.
@@liquidbraino Space shuttle (as entire system) was a rocket and boosters were reused(splashing down with parachutes), their casings are gonna be used on Artemis mission for some time. Pointing out that external fuel tank makes as much sense as pointing out single use of Falcon's upper stage.
If X-15 is a rocket then space shuttle(system as a whole) is even more.
@@ImieNazwiskoOK but still failed to make sending cargo to space cheaper.
This is a perfect example of how different a government managed project versus a Privately managed project is in execution and results and cost.
I’m amazed in how much more clear the video was on this flight compared to the quality of video when they are launched from Florida
Those landings are still breath taking.
That boost back burn and landing will never, I mean never get old!
James Bond/Jetsons meet the real world
Yer, it's like an actual scene from a sci-fi movie. I remember when tbey had two of then landing side by side. Could hear the 60's 'Day the Earth Stood Still' music playing in my mind.
Unmanned , and perfectly landed. It can go anywhere it wanted and return back safety.
A walk in a park. Great job space x.
The future has arrived. I got quite emotional the first time I saw the double landing from the Falcon Heavy - I recognised what I was seeing as a landmark in human history. And even though I've seen many landings since, I still feel amazed and grateful for the opportunity.
its awesome to see how far spacex has come.. i remember watching really old rockets take off. this is the future
I’m amazed at the quality improvements in the video feed - no dropouts or frozen frames and continuous clear resolution all the way to the end of the pad landing.
Seriously? It cuts to a different feed almost every 20 sec.
@@TargusCrimbus Yeah more than one camera angle. Like professional, ya know?
@@sparkingwave More like a movie, ya know?
Never get bored of watching these, amazing 👏
Never thought I would see this level of space technology in my lifetime......Well done SpaceX.......
Me neither my dream is to see cars flying before my departure! I'm 33.
The launch and landing has become a kind of web series for me, it thrills and amazes me with every event.
I'm am so impressed with their ability to bring back the rocket so precisely, incredible view, all the rockets working together to keep vertical is very accurate. Wow
It's fake.
@@fayereaganlover you can just go see them whenever you want dude
@@fayereaganlover Blue Origin employee ?
It’s incredible, no more single use boosters!
@@fayereaganlover what a sad troll, lol.
For is first flight this booster provided us with a wonderful trip to space followed by a clear sky and finally a clean landing. Good job @teamSpaceX
It takes a lot of tech to get a video that good.
So cool to be able to watch it return without any loss of signal.
The young lady providing the commentary has an incredibly lovely voice which is at the same time so expressive. One can also her excitement during the whole process, and her enjoyment in what she is doing. Congratulations to her and the SpaceX team
A true professional - knows what to say, when to say, and how to say. Also knows what not to say and when to keep silent and just let the imagery speak!
CLASSIFIED. Much hidden. Don’t look. Very shooshed. Secret Handshakes-all around.
"secret handshakes" hahahaha
This is not the satellite you're looking for, move along....
This a satellite that has been put in orbit specifically for the purpose of (redacted - redacted, ) and its justified because of the ( redacted ) coming soon.
Postscript: Eat it, China!
Putin knows exactly where it is.
I can't believe they actually showed a launch of a classified spy satellite
ULA shows them too. The launch itself isn't a secret.
You'll notice they didn't show the payload deployment. You get to see the launch, and that's it.
yeah, not a big secret. most amateur satellite trackers are easily able to locate the orbit and location of these satellites anyway. And that's just with telescopes. Russia, etc. probably have capability to inspect the actual satellite as it's boosted into orbit.
The public has been able to watch launches of "classified" missiles and payloads for more than a half-century from Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center, FL and Vandenberg Air/Space Force Base, CA. Can't hide those huge rockets, the earth-shaking noise, and the huge vapor trails. When I was a kid in L.A. (1960's), we could occasionally see rockets launched from Vandenberg during daylight ascending to space from our backyard in the Wilshire area (near Normandy and Third Street) -- that is, if it wasn't too smoggy in L.A.! When they launched in late afternoon near sunset, the orange vapor trails would extend west into the sky, a truly awesome sight. Vandenberg is an Air Force Base about 150 or so miles northwest of L.A. with a large launch complex that's test-launched ICBMs and lofted into orbit on other rockets "classified" payloads into space for decades. That's in addition to the commercial launches that also use Vandenberg. Can't hide 'em.
@@johnc2438 Kwajalein is pretty well hidden. The public may technically hear about it but doesn't stop to realize that it means the NRO has capability vastly in excess of the pathetic vaunted Hubble telescope. As many as 100 superior telescopes and 15 years before Hubble.
In less than 10 minutes, got the job done with no fuss. Amazing SpaceX!
Giddy Up, that was amazing SPACEX and video quality fantastic, makes me feel more connected! Thanks for sharing 💚🌍
That landing should give you confidence that the starship tower grab/claw thing might actually work
Thunderbirds are go!
Congrats to all of the hard work from the talented teams who make this look so easy! You are all part of America’s new dominance in space. You make me proud to be American!
sheep
I just watch on video and feel so in love, mind blowing about that *beautiful landing* ; imagine how SpaceX people feel.
You guys are amazing.
The Booster landing "spot-on" is my favorite part....way cool! :) (Y)
Just insane...still! Can't believe how much the grid fins move in the last few seconds.
At 7:43
It’s an exponential scale on how fast air is passing thru them. It’s fun to see the going crazy at the last 30seconds because they can only do so much at low airspeed lol
@@adamfacey5555 yeah up to the point when the airflow is just not enough and the computer says "Hey I'm done!!" and they stop. Made to look so simple, it's super cool 😎.
Don't worry people there's no possible way This will drop down on your head and leave a present in your hat💩🤮
Fun fact: Every SpaceX livestream comment section will have "those landings never gets old".
Except for the first one, I think
@@AndreSomers Exceptions never get old.
I know enough of science to be humbled by the amount of work and smart people that were involved in this to make it work. Every landing is an inspiration to become a better version of myself.
This NEVER gets old....
For a 55 year old man from Mobile, Alabama this is still just crazy. Crazy I 🤪 say!
Lol.
as a 51 year old, who was just a little shy of seeing man first land on the moon, i am still amazed at how far we have come since then.
@@agatenby41 Did you get to see the 1972 launch? I have very vague memories of sitting in my mom's lap watching it live but I was only two years old. I had no idea what was going on.
This (vertical landing of a space rocket) has to be the most complicated, most difficult objective ever devised and achieved in human history so far.
I think the engineers who worked on the Curiosity and Perseverance landings would beg to differ.
No. It's impressive, but nowhere near the complexity of other space projects.
We literally have landed probes on asteroids, launched space telescopes that had to reach specific locations on their first attempt 1 million miles away or be lost forever, etc.
Truly unbelievable what Space X is doing. Blows my mind watching it. The engineering is out of this world.
I remember when I was a kid being so amazed to see the space shuttle launch us to space.
Now, as an adult, I find the landing of the booster even more fascinating. 😆
Don't worry kid when you grow up you could develop an intelligent inquisitive mind that questions authority
@@planetflatt1307 Oof found the stupid one amongst the commenters. Did you forget to put on your 5g tinfoil hat uncle jerry?
Не перестаю восхищаться приземлениями и видео ! ))
All I read was, "I'm a commie fuck. Come nuke me."
@@Ianlis8675309 that's exactly what he said.
Google translation "I can't stop admiring the landings and videos"
Довольно круто а!
@@Ianlis8675309 Imagine thinking Russians are still communist in 2022.
And to think we only dreamed of things like this in the 50's watching those old Buck Rogers shows ! Even the Twilight Zone had episodes of "spaceships" landing upright, but who could ever imagine we would actually see it happen. Thanks to visionaries like Elon Musk and others we are amazed by not only rockets, and planes but automobiles. I think the future is very bright and future generations will also marvel at what the independent entrepreneurs will develop for the good of all mankind. Bravo and a job well done !
Can't wait until they perfect soylent green.
Good thing this classified launch wasn't posted anywhere. Also this was beautiful
What precision, what elegance! I never fail to marvel at the level of engineering and rocketry brilliance from the SpaceX Team in achieving these launches and the absolute pin point accuracy of the return of the 1st Stage rocket, from whence it first came . . . total respect from the UK. God bless our Queen . . .
Gotta love the higher resolution!
It was interesting seeing a Vandenburg landing. The Air was so clear!
Only thing that feels like 2022 landing rockets
Those landings look absolutely unreal from the ground!
One of the clearest and most beautiful mission coverages
I still can not believe this is possible - Simply Incredible !
You said it, not credible
@@dewaynerogers5795 Oh FFS. Well, all you have to do is go see it for yourself.
@GunControlForceIsInInfrastructureBill look how many people believe that the election was stolen.
@@dewaynerogers5795 I've seen it with my own eyes and so have millions of others. Nobody cares what you "believe" or "don't believe". You can believe in talking donkeys for all I care.
Advances in programming and software precise control really makes a difference not like the old days anymore
Congrats to everyone involved, that was incredible!!!
Não canso de ver o estagio 1 voltando e aterrissando, muito lindo e perfeito. Parabéns SpaceX.
Nunca deixa de ser incrível!
👍😤SENSACIONAL MESMO👏👏👏
This is so cool who could have thought that space flight could have been that exciting to watch after the shuttle missions ended! excellent job space x
Not cool.
@@alvinbaker7265 why?
Wow as a kid i used to land my toy rockets like this. Technology is awesome.
Staggering stuff well done Space X - what an achievement keep it up .
Awesome Awesome Awesome! I never tire of watching these booster landings. So patiently waiting for the Starship to begin launching.
Amazing they freakin master the landing of falcon9. So excited to see starship conquering soon!
that would be some sight indeed, planning to go to the US to see a launch (and especially a landing) live once!
Ohh goodluck!!! That was my dream as well to see a falcon 9 launch and landing. Someday we'll get to see starship and it surely incredibibly amazing especially the belly flop maneuver!!
This never gets old.
It's so crazy, just 8 minutes from start to landing.
Now gigantic space stations and mars colonisation are not so far off anymore
We need to be constructing a Star Trek style shipbuilding dock in Earth Orbit right now!
@@gregorysagegreene No doubt. But I'm more excited about the coming era of space tourism than I am with deep space exploration.
A time when anyone can afford to visit space or maybe even have a tourist resort on the moon. As a science fiction screenwriter I can't think of a more exciting time to be alive.
@@liquidbraino Most SF is about exploration. Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Gerrold. Movies and tv are mostly exploration/war. Battlestar Galactica (the original, not GINO), Buck Rogers, Star Trek, Space:1999, Men Into Space, Babylon 5, Space Precinct, 2001/2010, Mission To Mars, Star Wars, Wing Commander, Interstellar.
Are you WGA-West?
To everyone who piloted this machine, congratulations. My mother-in-law would never park so well without sinking into the earth. Smart humans show.
fyi it's driven automatically
Due to common interferance when the rockets are firing in the atomosphere that cause loss of signal, the rocket has to be fully automatic. So rather than pilots it is software engineers/programmmers.
elon musk does it all remotely from his phone.
How long does it take to prep, just for an 8 minute flight?!
Airlines take longer than that, just taxing down to the run way, let alone take off, drop your load and get home again, just nuts
That is absolutely increadable. Fantastic !! Thanks for the narration.
I was watching Neal Armstrong take the first steps on the moon 🌙 my grandpa told me that he remembered the Wright Brothers and he was my age when that happened. I am just wondering what my grandkids would be telling their grandkids and how primitive they think we lived in our lives now
I noticed one of the landing legs deployed later than the others and only just made it down in time. I wonder if they should deploy a bit earlier?
looks like they all deployed at the same time but that one got stuck for a sec. Defiantly cutting it close. If we noticed it. I'm sure SpaceX did too.
@@propeto13 Yes, I notice the grid fins also take a while to deploy swinging out in a series of bursts rather than smoothly. But legs are far more time critical!
They open only with gravity, so when the booster has a little extra horizontal velocity in one direction, it can happen that one landing leg deploys a bit later. That's ok, we've seen this before.
I was waiting till 4:22 for the nails. I expected a news report of people finding nails that fell from the sky… but the landing is cool too!
That is an incredible feat. Picture perfect. Great job!
absolutely amazing... so proud of the Space X team.
Lol, u mean tax funded "govX"
@@brianlaroche8856 they paid the money they borrowed from the taxpayers early and w interest...
@@felkerforcongress lol
@@brianlaroche8856 oh yikes you can't read ledgers
@@felkerforcongress lol, u we cant read the 2nd ledger. Is not public, lol