First Look Inside SpaceX's Starfactory w/ Elon Musk
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- Join Elon Musk for a tour inside SpaceX's Starbase and the brand new Starfactory. This video was shot the day before Flight 4, on June 5th, 2024.
00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Interview Starts
10:12 - Starships in Highbay
21:24 - Manufacturing talk
23:50 - Reusability
27:00 - Ice / Thruster talk
31:30 - Megabay
41:15 - Raptors
49:07 - Inside Starfactory
1:03:03 - Outro
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Elon Musk's Kids: "Dad we want Kerbal Space Program!"
Elon Musk: "We have Kerbal Space Program at home".
KSP is another thing I would love for Elon to buy and fix. He could rebrand it as Spacex space program. Surely, his software engineers could make it amazing again.
@@wmason1961 THEY. DO. NOT. HAVE. TIME.
I would definitely love the added emphasis on readability he would surely add
Elon Musk's Dad: "Go play with these emeralds."
@oooooooooo3449 Sure, they do. They got the bugs fixed on X. He can move software engineers around. He doesn't have to divert Spacex engineers.
You can tell Elon really enjoys his time with Tim, their interaction is so natural. I love the pause after he listens to Tim’s questions and “crazy” ideas, you can virtually see his brain processing. Very entertaining, well done to Tim and his whole team.
Looks natural, for being at his own installation I think he looks very unnatural: his frozen legs and the politician arm gestures are so bad I wanna call Hollywood and ask for my money back on this one.
You love the pause 😂
He always has these thinking pauses before he speaks.
the scale of this factory is insane, it's also hard to judge the size of the BFR aka starship, but seeing Elon walk past a segment really opens your eyes to how big this rocket really is
I'm curious if the Boeing CEO could also walk through production and have this amount of knowledge like Elon
Or most CEOs for that matter.
Actually, Boeing CEOs are engineers except they've changed
Boeing CEOs see everything in their factories in terms of how it affects their stock options. Cannot see them having much passion for ploughing new fields.
Imagine a Boeing CEO walking his factory floor and seeing everything in terms of his stock options with little passion for ploughing new fields or taking any risks which is precisely what their results show.
It's funny how Tim tries to coax Elon along to get further into the building and be able to get nice shots, while Elon wants to stop every meter and just talk about rockets 😂
Since it's here in the US, he can't stop every meter, it's every yard or foot. :) I'm kidding of course. I wish our country would finally move to metric. :)
He might be nervous about ITAR stuff. I get drilled with it and I'm not even close to aerospace.
I know! Elon needs to stop and look at the person to have deep conversations it appears. Cuz if he's walking his mind start wandering- like it did when he said "oh sorry I was thinking about something else." 😂
I thought he had a back problem? he does kind of walk stiffly?
Well, having to look up at those rockets all the time, anyone would have back problems lol@SteveAkaDarktimes
I know Elon’s always “very” optimistic about timelines but at least he and his team is always moving forward and not hiding behind closed doors. This type of access is unheard of and we have no idea how lucky we are specially to the future engineers out there.
It's his unwavering optimism that drives the team to try and achieve it. That kind of hope and optimism is infectious if you're around it long enough. Most of the cynics have either quit, or were fired for not being ambitious enough.
Huh?
@@johnrmcclure1 Half his tweets are about the imminent collapse of civilization due to people not having enough babies, while he's an absent father in 11 out of 12 of his kids lives. Meanwhile he's using the other kid as a prop. Very optimistic 🤣 I wonder if when his kids watch him stream diablo if that counts as 'dad time'. What does it say that none of the mother's of his children want anything to do with him?
@@johnrmcclure1 that is an incredibly destructive mindset
@@ihydf👈😂
Great job with not interrupting Elon. Too many people would try to talk over the person they're interviewing, but you always stopped and allowed Elon to talk.
Elon needs a placid flow of conversation in order to use his spoken language properly. He famously isn't good at being a monologueing presenter despite doing it all the time and he also doesn't perform well if he's being pushed along by an interviewer with very limited program time.
Tell me does any of the tweets Elon posts daily indicates he is a genius or are you that stupid?
Now I know why SpaceX is so successful, the CEO is actually the chief technical officer. Knows his stuff to the latter
Crazy hearing the chat about the flap hinge in advance, shows just how much they know about the potential issues!
CAE
Yes.
It's crazy, that you think it's "crazy". You must not be paying attention.
They moved the flap many months ago actually. But its very fundamental change and they already had like 9 starships in the works so it takes a long time to actually implement.
Literally everyone knew it would be an issue. This is why re-entering vehicles use passively stable shapes and not movable flaps with hinges. Only exception is the space shuttle, which stopped being flown for a reason… But yes watching a man light tax money on fire so he can accomplish what was done in the 1960s in the worst way possible is very impressive.
I genuinely believe that Elon enjoys having Tim around. Someone who truly understands the magnitude of what he is doing and achieving and Tim is so good in breaking it down for us.
Perhaps. Sometimes I agree with that. This interview though? Elon is objectively very frustrated with his suggestions
99.9% of the employees are probably like him too.. Tim just happens to be a Space news reporter
I think Elon generally enjoyes having people in awe of him around.
Tim manages to stroke Elon's ego enough to stay in his orbit.
Elon gets notably flustered when Tim has a suggestion or an idea that sounds reasonable because in Elon's world he's the only one that's supposed to be the smart one.
I believe Tim is a rocket-science entusiast, so he can ask the right questions, talk Elon's language so to speak, knowing the things he's flexing about.
Tim is the perfect interviewer for this complex subject matter
Best Elon interviews: Tim and Joe. Both these men know how to get info out of brains! I love these series. Thanks Tim and Elon!!
48:37 paraphrasing “no one in human history has ever built a fully reusable rocket system, not even SpaceX, but give us a year.” lol. Love the confidence.
They said give them like 6 or 7 years with the moon mission, that got cancelled after a bunch of delays. So I think what we can expect as for a fully reusable rocket system from spaceX is a lot of delays and then a cancellation
@@rrai1999 Nope. This isn't a government project - no fickle finger of finance football is gonna stop Elon.
@@rrai1999 Absolutely not.
Simply because starship now is actually financially secured thanks to starlink. Despite the initial fear from SpaceX and Elon that starlink could not turn a profit without starship's launch capabilities, falcon has ramped so much and Starlink sales have been so numerous that it is slated that starlink alone will generate more profits this year than the combined HLS and Dear moon contracts would have. With in the a latter a very very heavy lean on HLS.
So even if HLS was to get canned for whatever reason starship would still not get cancelled, simply because SpaceX has always stated they were building it for themselves first. And that any other use case would be a welcome adition
@@rrai1999 LOL, are you new to SpaceX?
@@rrai1999 You're thinking about Boeing or Lockheed or their joint venture. Those are failing, slowly.
I always suspected Elon must have a nanny brigade hanging around whenever he has his kids. Finally got to see it.
6:20 is the timestamp
A nanny brigade😢
Do you remember the proposition I made the wife that loves children can you Denny's get paid to take care of children that was a cute dance you cannot pay to get children brought up keep on dancing
@@Justic4Blueif i was rich as Elon id have a personal army of hand picked prostitutes
😂 One of those kids could disappear into that factory Willy Wonka style and Musk wouldn’t care or even know the name of which one vanished.
Can't say I am a big Elon's fan, but this is impressive at a scale that's hard to ignore
I don't agree with many things he says or does. But what he has done with SpaceX and Tesla is amazing and worthy of admiration.
People are complex.
@@acasualviewer5861 You can disagree with what people say, but you can't disagree with results
What did he do to you?
someone hire a nutritionist for Elon or we're doomed
“It used to be intense in tents. Now it’s in a building”
lol
I thought he said they were in "tents in tents."
You really gonna follow that "misheard!". It's gold man@@bluewaterboof82
probably not the first time he said that too lol
bro thinks the user-added captions are what he actually said thats wild 😭
Camping is intense.
Flat earthers must think Elon deserves an Oscar I mean... the dedication to the bit!! 😂
😂😂😂
I hear that Elon is a method actor!
The government conspiracy costing many many billions and a ton of actors on the SpaceX site must keep on going, to keep the silly masses in line. We can only keep the plebs in line and under our control if they think the earth is a sphere!
He has the coolest, shiniest props 😂
You and I could be friends. Well played, sir. 😆
You know what I really REALLY love about this
Is you can clearly see that the questions being asked are actually intelligent enough and related to the subject enough
That you can actually see Elon really thinking about the question and what the proper answer is
Just in the first minutes,.. you can see Elon is far more relaxed and open with Tim then with 'mainstream' media.
It's good to see Tim say when he's having difficulty wrapping his head around some of the engineering and sciences, those are the things that regular people might not even realize exist at all.
There also doesn't appear to be energy wasted on unnecessary formalities, when the worker need to talk to the boss, they appear direct and succinct.
26:00 Man, watching this part KNOWING that less than 24h after this recording everything went almost perfectly is nuts
I don't know if I would agree with that. Elon said the it was a 50:50 shot of the heat shield working, which is funny because it half way worked. It kept starship functional, but there was massive damage that isn't acceptable for a reusable rocket.
I think the most impressive part of the launch was the unplanned part. "Landing" with that level of damage is extremely impressive.
@@Amir_404 Well for what the website said was there target for the launch, they pretty much hit all of them.
Still landing with "that much damage" was insane
@Amir_404 keep in mind, while we all saw the flap damaged, there were tiles intentionally missing as well with sensors to see how badly it would burn through the heated side.
The test went rather well from what we can tell, and way better than most of us thought, but calling it perfect is quite the bit of hyperbole.
coincidence or did you suggest closing the tower arms in sync with the booster
Elon - “I don’t know if anyone is going to copy us. It’s a hard thing to copy.”
China - “write that down! Write that down!”
China's dear leader flies around in a Boeing 747, an aircraft first designed and manufactured in the US back in the 1960s. Chinese enginners should start there. Once done, they can then turn their attention to more recent stuff.
Their aircraft copies from Russian planes are subpar at best, good luck on them copying this successfully
Yep, China launches more tonnage to orbit than anyone, other than SpaceX. It's not close between the two if that tells you how everyone else is doing.
@@atanumaulik7093We really need them to update to a modern Boeing plane 😮
America used to be the one copying/stealing British designs. It takes time.
The kids running around and the ladies chasing them is crazy! 😂😂
I know! The wealthiest, smartest man on earth with his little earthlings running around innocently! 🥰 so beautiful!
@@cut-- 'smartest man on earth' LMAO
As someone who worked there during the 4/20 stack: WOW things have gotten nice!
Insane to get this level of access... Bravo!!
geometry dash
Musk is desperate to not look creepy. But look at him. The guy is a disgusting freak.
I thought my comment section was bugged but then I remember I’ve seen you here before in a live chat a long time ago lol how do I remember that
He is going on a rocket launch so he's there already with access. And I think Elon watches his stuff too, seems like Elon gives him special interviews and in depth interviews too. So I think Elon actually likes him.
why insane? wrong word. need to stop using it.
Over the years a chemistry has developed between Elon and Tim comprised of love for rocketry, mutual respect and desire to share the dream with the world.
They certainly have had some quality exchanges. Elon adopted one suggestion if I recall. The mutual respect is real, and love you identified that.
Preparation and delivery…
Tim keeps Elon delivering with every sentence…
Fun to watch Elon think before answering…
😃
It's great when Elon gets interviewed by someone who has in-depth knowledge of what's going on. Most 'reporters' ask the same superficial questions that he's already been asked endlessly.
at one point in time one of the two will be very dissapointed about the other.
Oh please. Tim spends the time stuttering and laughing inanely at nothing. It's clear he is pretty clueless about the construction and is out of his depth
That tour was like right out of a Sci-Fi movie.!
I have no idea what he's explaining through most of the video, but it looks impressive.
Can we appreciate that Elon took more than one hour of his time to sightsee Tim, his cameraman, and us around!
Yep
He probably sees it as very efficient. Tim knows his stuff, and has a lot of followers, so 1 optimistic Elon for an hour can cover a lot of ground with high level discussions for Tim to break down later.
Plus Tim just lost his moon orbit… Elon might be feeling generous.
Let's not forget Tim actually asked elon a question in a past tour that resulted in a design change. Also this is marketing.
Plus I almost think elon respects Tim and is a friend.
Well, us and 1.2m others. Imagine 1.2m people following along 😅
How does he have time to do all this?
We think the seal will work but it may not.
Narrator: it did not
Came her me for this 😅
I'm sure your design works much better.
@@jdesmo1I think this was just a joke.. why so serious?
where in the video is this discussion about the flap seals?
Yes it did . . . mostly . . .
Its crazy how rich he is and still stands around talking. You can tell he loves what he does.
Rich people weren’t all born rich
The fact that Elon actually dedicated his time to this video is amazing!
There have been many buildings where rockets have been assembled before, and factories that built components for those rockets, but never a factory that builds the entire rocket just as there are factories that build cars. So getting a tour of Starfactory under construction is kind of like getting a tour of the very first Ford factory.
To be clear, there are no longer any factories that build the entire car. Basically, the only thing an auto assembly plant actually creates, aside from assembling all the parts, is stamping the sheet metal that makes up the car body itself. As I understand it though, the original Ford plant that produced the Model T did make every part for that car, up to and including the steel itself, but modern manufacturing relies on a lot of outside suppliers for things like seats, windows, alternators, ect... In fact, I believe most auto manufacturers, if not all of them, have a separate plant, usually not located in the same area, that produces the drive-trains.
@@operator0 That's true. And at Starfactory many components will be made elsewhere, such as the engines themselves, and integrated onto the rocket. But the method of the rocket moving through a linear series of work stations rather than assembling the rocket in a stationary location is much more like an auto assembly plant.
Are you a bot?
WOAH!!!!!!!
Ford build things that acutally work for a reasonable price. Elon destroys tax money for something Nasa did know 50 years ago doesn' work. will never work. Unless he "invents" a white paper with an anti grav propulsion.
Other journalists would kill to get an interview like this with Musk.
Meanwhile, Tim is calm, cool and collected and doesn't ambush Elon with off topic questions. Plus, Tim knows exactly what Elon talking about, as well.
Why would Elon talk to anyone else? Seriously.
Agree…, I don’t believe there is any other journalist that can have this level of credible & technical expert engagement (coming from Tim) that would be worth Elon’s time.
Tim is genuinely into Rockets and has no ulteria motives like career Journalists. It's good to see Elon and Tim talking Rockets so casually.
Tim sounds pretty dim to me
@@Zinojn Guess you should get yourself checked out then 👍🏼
Two people passionate about the subject matter... Interesting and entertaining. MSM journalists usually have an agenda to ambush and get a sound bite. Every interview Tim has completed with Elon has been awesome....Like a watching an excellent documentary.
how did nobody notices Elon's badass shoes
Can something else in the world be more inspiring than being a part of civilization's future?
When has the public been ever able to follow the development of a rocket like today with SpaceX? Simply amazing.
Great comment! I will never understand why all the secrecy around things that can benefit humanity. I know it can end up in a wrong hands, which is even more idiotic to think why using tech against your own kind. I just hope when these things start to work, bad people don't get them.
Have you heard of NASA?
@@jabadabadu7089
Westerners will take the ideas to China asap for large payments. There's an ex Royal Air Force pilot currently training Chinese PLA Air Force fighter pilots.
@@richy69ify It's all about the money. Even if society is crumbling to pieces, money must be first thing on our mind. Money is useful for things we need, but it is exactly like drug. And we are junkies. Unable to control our apetite. Why I think differently, I honestly don't know. For me personally money is not a motivation. It's actually quite the opposite. There are things in life that I just cannot understand. I've been trying to understand but every time I return to the same conclusion. When I see people cooperating, that is my motivation. And that moment is when things happens like they supposed to. For example the last starship flight. That moment of people cheering. There is literally nothing material that can substitute that mentality of people in that moment. And we seriously lack together moments like that. Together as civilization, not as nation. Utopical thinking, but never tried. Why?
Greed
Back in the 1960s, NASA produced this kind of detailed documentary themselves, and the press had access too.
China probably has a roomful of engineers listening to this with note pads in hand.
Ya probably 😂
China`s space industry started way back in the 1950s....
They tried to mimic falcon blatantly already but I think the issue for them is that this is all experimental. Nothing seen is the final version and is noted to be in rapid and dramatic change constantly. One could copy it only to realize it didn't end up working for the people making it at SpaceX and it was subsequently scrapped only a month later.
16:15 comment about secondary shield. "ITAR controls" referencing non exportable intellectual information of design. What we are shown isn't repeatable just by discussion.
China is actually going to the moon. SpaceX is still trying to get its heat shield to work and is years late on its contract with NASA.
I can not believe a guy as busy as Mr Musk makes himself so accessible to give a tour to a youtbe channel. Wow. He never ceases to amaze me!
Hello 2500! I was alive when this interview happened
From this interview, IFT-4 is far more successful than Elon's expectation.
"50/50"!
Why are Boeing planes falling apart? All the good technicians are at SpaceX!
@@user-rg7sg6kp1p It's not just that; they are using the original methodology for ship design, which is getting it right the first time. The only problem, is that by doing it the first time, you may end up finding a problem that you did an account for. Casein point what's happened to Starliner.
SpaceX, on the other hand, almost _gleefully_ sacrifice rockets in order to get useful data, by making imperfect designs to push the envelope in order to iterate to a better design.
And now? SpaceX has proven their point that iteration through their willingness to iterate using imperfect testbeds is the way forward.
If you have a complicated system like a rocket, you habe a lot of systems that need to work at the same time, for the whole system to work.
So in the last 50 years engineers tried to keep risk down, by using as much allready tried and proven tech as possible.
So RS-25 engine is used on SLS, because is allready used in the Shuttle and it self was based on the J-2.
This approach works, but a lot of 50 years old engineering decisions are carried over. Engineering wich was done without computers, Without CAD, FEM and CFD.
It is like basing your new car design on an old air cooled VW beetle engine from 1950.
So Space X is the first company to be bolt enough and have enough capital to design a system new from scratch.
So that it allready works that well only after 5 years is just a marvel.
Of course there are many little problems that are needed to be ironed out in the next 2-5 years, but by 2030 we are going to have a really reliable, reusable rocket the first time in history.
We are going to be able to build huge things in space. Space stations that are 100x the size of the ISS.
@@user-rg7sg6kp1p
All hires are DEI at Boeing now ..😂😂
Let's appreciate Tim Dodd for doing this every year and giving us great insights on what's going on at Starbase!
I think this is the most incredible thing a "UA-camr" has EVER done. Its monumental !
To spend over an hour of Elon’s time is a huge feat in itself. The dude must be an alien, he’s truly the definition of a workaholic 😂
Love the kids just running around and playing at the rocket factory. So cool
And they're so cute aswell
@@F-16_ACER
”And they’re so cute aswell” 😊
”And they’re so cute aswell” 💀
@@Wurtoz9643
"Let's eat, kids" 🙂
"Let's eat kids" 💀
Pure chaos lol
Looks like there's some careful herding happening just there.
Listening to Elon say that the challenge is to get something to work regarding how the thermal times are attached, then optimize it reminds me of the saying "First be effective, then be efficient." Trying to optimize too early in a process can impede getting the process to actually work.
You must be a great engineer.
premature optimization is root of all evil.
Optimising too early is inefficient and leads to getting locked into suboptimal solutions, better to find the best basic solution, then, and only then, optimise.
@@gibrains Or as we used to say in software: "First make it work, then make it fast. There's no use for a fast program that doesn't work.... but you can ship a slow program that works and speed it up later."
Software has the same problem. Something that works inefficiently might have an architecture that can’t be optimised. Basic design has to be right. SpaceX is still working on that. Stage 1 rebuild is an example.
Thank you so much for posting this for free. You're a legend mate.
Tim Dodd is a great teacher teaching us
about a great innovator
13:00 "So you know one of the key questions is, does that seal work?
We think it'll work, but it may not work."
Well that aged well
*Queue music*
What's funny is the seal may actually work fine. But the position of the fins clearly does not. Fortunately they'd been planning to make that particular change for a few years. Unfortunately, that change won't come for the next two or three flights.
@@Asterra2 where are they gonna move them to? like away from the reentry side?
@chris-hayes I would expect they either use a wind tunnel or computer simulation to find an orientation or slight placement change that enables control in atmosphere but avoids the "flow of hot gas" that it seems to currently enable. To your point, it can't be "too far away"... perhaps even a mold of steel then plated with tiles to physically redirect the gas flow?
@@davidbonilla2253 Generally, I believe they are just moving up around the curve of the Ship (from the side on view when entering the atmosphere). That way the hinge and hinge gap are at least partially protected by the body of the ship. Control authority would be lower, but I'll take that trade-off with a little massaging of Size and Programming to get it back.
"we have a design where success is one of the possible outcomes" is one of the gloriously nerdy things I've ever heard. Wonderful insight into this world!
Everything is a probability. The entire universe operates on probabilities.
Musk is possibly the greatest estimator of probabilities the world has ever produced. Or at least the only person with that ability to act on it.
@@TheJustinJ nah, there are others equally as potent as him, but he was at right place at right time, and probability of that happening is very less, so you have not heard about or seen such people who are as potent as elon musk in ability to act..... The probability was in his favour...
@@TheJustinJ Musk has the financial capabilities to act on those uncertainties. How many companies with unique concepts bleed out financially, when theoretically they could have changed the world? Money dictates everything, as well as luck.
57:33 Industrial chiller spotted. Just in case LTT need another one...
In 100 years people are going to be watching this video. Trying to see how brilliant this guy was pioneering some space travel for somebody or for some world that never did
As I watch this, It brings me back to those old Walt Disney episodes where Werner Von Braun would come on and explain space travel and how they think it will work. Long after we are all gone, footage like this will be watched by people who cant beleive the access and transparency to one of humanity's most impactful person we once had. Top shelf archival material is what this is.
Yea! Then we all realized Werner was a na zi and all of that space nonsenses from him is:
Propaganda
@@labbeaj Still the Nacis, including Von Braun, brought the Americans to the moon. Operation Paperclip.
@@labbeaj prop a ganda at deez nuts
@labbeaj nope...he is a hero who fought for his country and Europe!
@@notimeforspace2477 🤣
Elon/Spacex's work from turning a small, neglected hamlet in South Texas into one of the most large-scale and ambitious posts of rocketry and spaceflight in 5 years is truly remarkable. I mean say what you want about the man (I have some personal gripes myself) but the dedication, efficiency, and ambition towards advancing spaceflight and becoming a spacefaring civilization is something to be lauded for.
Let's just hope there's no Kessler syndrome
@@soapbar88 Kessler syndrome isn't nearly as bad as it is made out to be. It is only a risk in LEO, and if it did happen, we could still send rockets out near the poles. It would make space flight harder(more delta V needed because you cannot take the optimal path), more unsafe, and made an entire class of satellite nonviable(starlink would be the hardest hit), but it would not trap us on earth.
@Amir_404 With advancements being made in atmosphere breathing ion thrusters satellites constellations, like Starlink, will be moving into significantly lower orbits. In these low orbits space debris is not an issue since atmospheric drag clears it out within days or weeks. As you said Kessler syndrome is a sky is falling SciFi concept that can be worked around fairly easily with innovation & delta-v
Like las vegas and the hoover dam.
Elon will be remembered along with the greats like the Wright Brothers, Edison, Ford, Da Vinci
Lots of love from India 🇮🇳
You definitely need to make a Starship Ultra-Heavy t-shirt with the three boosters on it, and have it say "I got 99 Raptors but a ship... is 6 more Raptors" or something like that lol
These videos will go down in history. We never saw Edison or Ford or Tesla how they did what they did. Luckily we have Tim for Elon. Cannot thank Tim enough for these videos
12:36 the hing gap & hot gas passing through the gap. How accurate Elon was. This is insane 😮😮😮. Thank you both for the precious interview.
Space travel is the best project Elon has ever got involved in IMO. And what he and the team have achieved is stunning. But obviously they have a looong way to go.
I don't know a dam thing they are discussing but I love every minute of listening to Elon talk.
That red OBS Ford at the beginning is mint.
And it's probably the most reliable and longest lasting vehicle on site.
I`m 74 and what`s insane to me is watching these two young men in tee shirts who look like the next door neighbors just walking around in this huge rocket factory. Inside Elon`s mind is where impossible becomes possible.....
Elon is an old fart tho >:(
Everyday Astronaut is Elon`s neighbor.
Elon Is 52
Elon's suffering a bad case of the brain rot right now, I wouldn't want to be in his mind at all. I'd wish he'd drop the twitter thing and just focus on SpaceX and Tesla. Old Elon is best Elon IMO.
Egalitarianism in all aspects.
The Fitter/Mech. on $40/hr barely notices his boss, a self made billionaire, as he works on a advanced space rocket.
I have been waiting for a second visit. I waited to watch this for both parts. And go!
I'm impressed that Elon allows a tour with video. I've been to many factories in the decades I what I did for a living (retired now). One thing that always impressed me at a location was how clean, or not, a site was. Seeing how white a predominant color is indoors impresses upon me how much cleanliness is followed. Given that contaminants don't go well with sophisticated mechanicals, and it is Texas where wind also carries dust cleanliness is critical. I can definitely see how the plant is being set up for production with the size that it is. I'm old enough to remember seeing Gemini's being sent into space and then the Apollo program. Those were special times. But the Shuttle lost that as it seemed to become routine. The thing I like about Space X and Starship is it's once again has a special feeling about it. It's not just for going up and around the Earth, it's for going beyond. It's for exploring. What if 100's of years ago they build grand sailing ships only to put around the harbor? That's kind of what the Shuttle became. What I like about Starship is it's built to go out there and explore. To the moon, and best of all to Mars. During Apollo I remember talk of going to Mars by 1999, they kind of missed that. I just want to live long enough to see a manned mission back to the Moon and then on to Mars!
What I truly love about Elon, is that he doesn't act like a know it all. When Tim gives a thought or an idea, Elon listens and even considers the idea, even used one of Tim's ideas. Thanks to Tim and Elon for the tours they bring us by video. Truly love the approach SpaceX uses to better space flight.
Oh he does! Especially when talking about things he has very small competence in, like healthcare or history and politics of eastern european nations.
@@solarissv777 Exactly :))). And he doesn't take it well when he is contradicted on something he doesn't know.
You people who hate him are all just politically motivate woke morons. He cant stand fools and thats what you all are. He respects Tim because Tim doesnt push some absurd woke agenda on him. Treat him like a sane pro-fact human being, and he will react respectfully. But if you start pushing anti-reality anti-science woke insanity, he is over it, as we all are!
It's an interesting contradiction: when he knows a lot about a subject, I think he appreciates how complex things can be and thus seems very open to suggestions and feedback (more so than a lot of people). Hopefully, he can learn to apply the same approach in areas he knows less about.
@joakimlindblom8256 I believe he does. I mean he's not perfect like the others who responded to my post, but he admits to his shortcomings and thrives to do/be better.
49:06 "No bicycles inside building" That was the most Kerbal warning in a spacecraft factory. lol
It must have went out of control they needed to put up that sign. Like, imagine engineers doing wheelie and drifting bicycle in there. Or someone crashed their bicycle into a Raptor engine and got its wheel stuck in the nozzle.
They definitely need to allow electric scooters or something
They lost the Dutch vibe with this new regulation
simple reason for it: imagine what those lovely clean floors would look like with rubber bike tire marks on.
@@pekka_kakkinenwhite, grey, or other color tires don't mark up the floor like the ones with carbon black in them do.
Only ones with white rubber wheels I guess.
im less than a minute in and I love how there is a old F250 in the parking lot. Something about that just makes it seem so down to earth.
The biggest lesson I gather from this interview is that Elon is hyperfocused on putting all the team's brain cycles on the limiting factors of getting Starship to RRR state. The responses to all Tim's suggestions were "well we could do it that way, but it doesn't matter as much at this point until we can achieve RRR"
Yep, "I don't care how we make it work, so long as it works" ... half the problem is knowing what answers you need for questions you don't even know to ask, you only get that from experience. Starship landing on a virtual tower was a bit deal. I suspect RRR will happen way further down the track, but that doesn't mean Starship can't be operational way before that stage. Either way very exciting and cool stuff.
maybe, but I think his responses were more tailored to, "we could do it that way, but what matters is that it's done."
@@RI5E_AGAINST yea. your quote akin to the idea of "done is better than perfect". what matters most for the starship program is that it's done (ie. RRR)
The biggest lesson I gather is Elon had about 3 hours sleep.
excuse me, but what is RRR? My eng is bad
Elon casually walking though his starship factory and whistling Tchaikovsky is the best part about this whole thing
Whats the time stamp?
51:29 @@mishXY
Really?
57:18
Let’s be honest he was whistling the “Nutcracker” likely due to his childhood cartoon watching than anything highbrow.
One thing I would be interested in is knowing how the SpaceX team dealt with the immense vibration of having 33 Raptors fire at the same time
"This pretty good looking rocket factory"
Me drooling over the red Ford parked out front 🤤 😂
"We've had that discussion many times... [cut]"
😂
I'm the one who gave Tim this question on discord.
Definitively an ITAR protected information ^^
timestamp?
46:35😊
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@@rayjay848 I recommended he cut that. I guess he kept it.
Take a drink every time Tim says "crazy" or "insane".
I would be so sloshed. Or so over-hydrated.
Underrated comment, or ignored brilliance.
Or an um from musk
he needs to throw in some "that is NUTS"
Yeah you need to have a drink after the 100th time he says it.
Yeah they need to get a professional interviewer huh? You’d think with all his money , Elon could afford to step up his interview game.
I really appreciated the childhood footage of the future rullers of Mars 😂
Musk is by far the strongest case for not letting unstable people have power
Last time Elon had Marvin the dog following him around and now he has the whole Starbase daycare with him
Why does the richest guy in the world have to bring his kids to work? I am sure he can afford full time daycare for his kids. This is something you do when there is an emergency on a Saturday and you have to bring your children with you.
This should be something we all do and have a part of our culture to be honest. Get them exploring and interested early instead of hiding away doing nonsense all day.
Hey is busy, this is his way of spending time with his kids, easier to have a babysitter following him to care for the kids while they are with him and he gets few quality moments with his kids! I think it is also good for the kids to see their dad in full spectrum through work, home and all
@@jordanmazzuca5434it's quite obvious you don't like or love children.
Why would he have his children next to him, if he can? You actually ask this question ❓⁉️
Quite obvious you don't like children, and even of you do have them, you probably don't love them.
@@jordanmazzuca5434and to answer the question: because he loves them and wants them near him
"Idk if anyone is going to copy us... it's a hard thing to copy..."
The badassery in that statement...
Nah, they cant even copy themselves reliably atm. No one wants to copy them. Perhaps, in a decade, when they have a working ship, someone might want to copy something off of them, but definitely not now.
@@UninstallingWindowsfalcon 9…
@@ethan44866 Falcon 9 doesnt really contain any groundbreaking technologies.
@@UninstallingWindows I guess you’ve never seen it before
@@UninstallingWindows I guess you are not up to date but China is copying both Falcon 9 and starship. They succesfully test launched and landed their mini falcon 9 hopper a few days ago.
So nice of you to give us a tour of the place where you created our Model USO.
Tiling seems easy to fix, just have 2-3 layers offset so each one can cover the gaps in the others
Just like a residential roof.
WE ARE SO BACK
@@bryantk608 Hey, dont be so harsh towards Elmo 😉
Sam from Wendover, is that you?
@@bryantk608 you’re suffering from elon derangement syndrome, there is no antidote, the only thing i can suggest is to not obsess over elon musk every waking moment of the day.
Hahahaha! Loved the comment ☺️
@@bryantk608no matter what your opinion about Elon is seeing all this stuff about starship is cool
25:41 "I thought it would be kinda cool if the tower mimiced it out here"
🤷♂ "I mean"
What did we see the next day???
"this is all still a giant test"
You realize that SpaceX committed to having this all done years ago to secure government funding.
Crazy how this is all possible because of the dream of one man.
all possible because of Money
“If I have seen farther, it’s because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”
@@shawnfoogle920 I know his father is rich and colonialists in South Africa but they gave him a computer to start coding not money. They invested in his education.
@@shawnfoogle920 money were there before Elon. Not even Nasa with way way bigger budget didn't manage to accomplish what Elon did. It's because of this man's dream, not the money.
@@Anlonn exactly
Hyped for another Starbase Tour! This one was certainly fun to watch with the hindsight of knowing how successful flight 4 ended up being 😀
Hi
Matt for your next Ksp video make an SSTO with the space shuttle cockpit parts and land at the surface with a big payload please
Agreed! Also cool to see you in the “wild” lol!
If I was the PEZ candy CEO, I would be making a starship dispenser with starlink satellite shaped candy. ASAP.
Yeah I’m going to 3d print one, thanks for the idea.
I'll buy one!!!!!!!!
😂
I would buy one
How abt candy in shape of Elon comes out lol
I don't know when his birthday, but a coupon to a chiropractor wouldn't be a bad gift, I believe
H.... SMOKES! These factories are HUGE!!
It’s awesome how comfortable Elon has gotten with Tim, so it’s 2 friends discussing things.
I agree! I was just thinking how comfortable, open and happy this conversation is. They both seem like kids excited about space to me lol
In NORMAL rocket language that would be heavy lift.
Best line ever.
I'm so back here. Thank you. Love this channel.
A CEO that actually owns his product knowledge 💯%.
Boeing could be better if the management were half as dedicated to understand their products.
Great interview 👍
Yes, plus he actually knows how everything is made. His crazy dedication is what makes him so successful.
working at starbase in any capacity would be absolutely incredible
I can see it. Janitor/Test pilot. I wonder what the pay would be?
Incredibly bad working conditions, harassment and burnout, yes.
@@han5vkand you’ve never worked there you’ve only read that online
@@han5vkbetter than being behind a desk
@@AztecDread pathetic false dichotomy.
What a class act. He treats this interviewer with so much respect. Musk also listens almost as if he knows he can learn something from this young man.
Thats because he actually has learned something from Tim - IN the last interview series Tim mentioned a design option regarding using autogenous gas pressurization. Elon looked at starship and said "you know that's actually a good idea". They made a corresponding design change
Sure, he owns him a flight to the moon he will never get.
A sign of a really smart person is listening to everyone as though they know something they don't. That is the only way to learn, and smart people are constantly learning from everything and everyone.
The most successful people are great listeners. You have to be.
@@MAC-nm5is TBF Tim asked confirmation that the Heavy Lift used a different system than Starship - if I recall correctly - and it triggered in Elon a question in his head like "Why DO we actually maintain a different system in the booster?". As he seemingly couldn't come up with a good answer, and probably saw advantages with interchangeability he decided there and then to have his engineers change the design. It's still awesome Tim was a triggering part of that process, but it was Elon that came up with the idea.
“Shuttle coming in for a landing…” Freudian slip. 😂
Didn't even acknowledge that beauty of an OBS 7.3 Powerstroke
What amazes me is how focused all the workers are. They are not too concerned seeing Elon there. Focused on a job
Easy to focus when you are building the future of mankind.
this amazes you??
Well yeah, they'll get fired for making eye contact with him.
@@KidCorporate 🤣🤣🤣
@@KidCorporatethat guy that fist bumped Elon didn’t get fired?
The thing that surprised me the most was definetely how clean the starfactory is
Did you expect a place they build space ships to be dirty? I imagine dust being abundant when you are working on the sheer amount of high level aeronautic tech would be a big problem.
Rockets are complex, high precision machines after all and these are the most advanced types being built.
@@BigBadBossu Not necessarily.I didn't expect it to be dirty it just came as a surprise the way it looked. I guess a more correct term would be sleek
I think it's all down to the fact that all the rings are the same diameter so all the stations are the same size.
so clean that the kid can eat chips that has dropped on the ground at 2:29
It's crazy how clean this place is!
awesome tour!
2:30 the kid dropped the cheeto puff and still eats it, Hilarious! I love the children being around able to see the world changing from a young age
😂 good catch
We all learned the danger of eating sand the hard way
should have blessed it before eating it
Two second rule...
Those are funyuns