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SpaceX Starship Launch Update [Live Show] · Elon Musk Podcast

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Blind Boy says sometime in March.
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OK, let's, let's jump in here. Let's just do a little bit of
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hello, where are we here? Oh, off the camera.
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Here we go. There we go.
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I was completely off the camera. I had to move myself over to get
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in. Get in the camera here.
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By the way, this is a very casual, very casual Space Flight
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stream. So if you're into Space Flight,
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if you're into Starship, just let me know in the chat, because
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I know that's what I live for. I live for Space Flight.
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Rocket life, Holly. Exactly.
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That's what we're here for. Very casual.
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Very, very casual. NC Davis, again, thanks for
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that, too. Got you from Norway.
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Yeah. Let me know where you guys are
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from in chat, too, because it's nice to see the community and
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know where everyone's coming from.
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I'm from Georgia now. I was from Vermont and from
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Starbase. I went from Starbase.
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OK, so the last four years ish lot of moving, Lot of moving
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Vermont to New York to Starbase, Texas for about a year and then
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back to New York, back to Vermont and down.
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Now I'm in Georgia. I'm about a couple hours away
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from NASA now, which is really good.
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Well, let's see where we're from.
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Manchester, England. Nice, Phillip said.
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Launch in two weeks. I'm a Brit living in Maine.
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Oh, Maine. I love Maine.
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Maine's so nice. Best of sweet.
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Hello beautiful Berkshires. Yeah.
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My life and day night rhythm is based and star based.
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Yeah, I'm kind of that way too. I had, I had that going for me
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for about a year and I kind of stuck with it because I was
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down. Like I was always at Starbase,
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like I was. I was constantly down there.
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I was live streaming and whatever and doing all the the
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content from down there. And then I'm still on that
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mindset of like I got to get up in the morning, I got to drive
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to Starbase and it's kind of cool.
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We have this island out here called Tybee Island and it's
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very similar to the drive to Starbase.
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Really weird. Really weird.
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The first time I drove out there, I was like, this is very
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familiar. It reminds me also of going to
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Kennedy Space Center. Very similar.
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A lot of water, you know, it's right in the ocean, so very,
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very similar. But I'm on Starbase time too.
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I'm always tank watching. I'm always, yeah, there's always
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a Starbase something Starship in my head.
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So I'm happy that we're here together and we can do this.
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Yeah. So Wessex Dragon says space.
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Yes. Are we still streaming?
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There we go. We got it.
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Yep, we're good to go. So we have we have a couple
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things we have to talk about today.
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It's it's getting there. It's getting Get Juicy down at
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Starbase and there will be some new information coming out in
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the next shoot. I don't know.
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I shouldn't say information Some some new Damn mine's my green
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Looks so wonky here. Sorry, sorry.
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This. As I was saying, it's a casual
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stream, but my lights are really wonky too.
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So just being real here with you guys.
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Oh, that's bad light, bad lighting.
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I got this new light over here, so I'm gonna turn it down
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because it looks oh, looks pretty bright.
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Blowing me out. Blowing me out.
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There we go. OK, we got.
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So let's let's do this for real. Let's do this for real.
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We have some some information from Eddie Trevino.
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Who's the judge first? Our base area.
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So we have. Let's look at that real quick.
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Here we go. There will be a Rd. closure,
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possibly conducting transport, transport operations between
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11:00 AM and 1:00 PM today. And in the alternative, between
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7:00 PM and 9:00 PM. We know that the ship is back at
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the OLM. The booster's back at the OLM.
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Don't have to transport anything anymore.
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What could it be? I don't know.
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Let me know and chat. What do you think it's going to
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be? It's possibly, you know, it
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could be any. It could be anything.
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It could be anything. It could be a booster.
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It could be another ship. It could be moving something
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down the road, could be moving something from a test facility
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to the production facility or or anything, or a crane from the
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launch site to, you know, out of the launch site.
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Basically. I think that that might be it
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because they used a crane to move the ship to the OLM from
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Pad B. So there might be a crane moving
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out of the way. So if that's the case, it should
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be any time soon we should be seeing that.
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And also maybe tonight 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM and this is Central
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time, Texas time. So we could be seeing that
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sometime today. Now also we have some other
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interesting things happening at Starbase as we as we speak.
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Also my Michael Maxey, thanks for the Super chat.
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Appreciate you man. Let's see here how we how we do
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this. We got.
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I don't know why this isn't doing this.
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He's alerts, man. Oh, there we go.
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Oh, bro, that's a huge, huge starships.
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Let's get you in there, dude. Let's get you in there.
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Be some starships. Put you on top.
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There we go. Thanks for that super chat.
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Appreciate you, man. Live shows are always fun
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because they're just chill. I'd love doing live shows.
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They're so fun. They're way, I think they're way
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less stressful than, like, creating a video, to be honest
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with you like creating and like, editing a video.
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I prefer this format so I can hang out with you guys.
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Because we're all the same, you know?
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We're all here for Starship. We're all here to talk about
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stuff like this. Debs.
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What's up? Stalker alert?
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Hydrate. Oh, I got it right here.
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Over 50 watching and over 13 likes.
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Come on. Yeah.
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Could we try to get up to 20 likes?
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That'd be easy, right? Three more.
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There we go. Let's get up to 20.
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Super easy. And I got to get this out of my
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head. These alerts got to go away
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because you can't. I can't see anything.
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There we go. OK, so we got the, we have the
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road closure possibly, but let's go.
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Let's kind of like move it back a little bit and but also move
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it forward because Starship isn't just happening at
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Starbase, because Artemis 3 is happening as we speak at NASA,
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Marshall. And let me show you what I mean.
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This is very, very cool. This is one of those things that
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we are where you're like, you're hoping something like this
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happens, right? You're like, how do we get this
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inside information? Well, you know what?
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NASA gives it to you. They're just going to be like,
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hey, we're going to give you the docking mechanism of Starship
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and the Orion capsule. Look at this.
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So they did a they did 30 experiments.
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I I believe it was 30 experiments.
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Let me check it out. But there's some there's some
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photos. Oh, really close-ups.
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Really close tight close-ups of this docking mechanism.
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It looks like a modified, modified Dragon capsule.
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You know, like the docking mechanism.
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I mean, I've seen this. I saw this comment on.
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I think it was either SpaceX subreddit or one of the
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subreddits. One of the reddits for SpaceX.
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But it said if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?
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Like that makes sense. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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They already have a docking mechanism that works great, so
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why would they want to really mess with it too much?
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They just incorporate it with Starship, like, you know, people
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go from a Dragon capsule into the ISS really easily.
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They dock very well, very similar docking mechanisms.
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So use that same technology that you've been growing over the
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last ten years or so and adapt it to a Starship.
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They don't give you many much information, but NASA and SpaceX
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recently performed qualification testing for the docking system
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that will help future Artemis crews move between spacecrafts
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to carry out lunar landings. The tests conducted over 10
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days, including more than 200 docking scenarios.
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Sorry I said 30, but I think it's that you had to do 30
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things 200 docking scenarios and NASA goes on a little bit more
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in their on their news site here.
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There's a lot of information here Part of NASA's Artemis
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campaign will get people on the surface of the moon.
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So here we go, this is, this is interesting and we knew this
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before but they just reiterated this here.
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Astronauts will ride the Orion spacecraft, so it's going to be
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launching on the SLS from Earth to lunar orbit.
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And then once the two spacecraft have docked, so the Starship
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enters lunar orbit as well, docks with the Orion.
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And then the people inside Orion go from Orion through the
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docking mechanism that we just saw, this this docking
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mechanism. And then they enter the
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Starship, they move to the Lander, This the Starship human
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landing system, the HLS that will bring them down to the
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surface. So they're gonna go from the
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Orion into the HLS, fly down to the surface of the moon in a
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crap that's 150 feet tall. That's wild.
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Like that's that alone. Like somebody flying in 150 foot
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tall rocket and landing on the moon's surface is wild.
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That's wild. After a surface activities are
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complete, Starship will return the astronauts to Orion waiting
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in lunar orbit. And then they go on to say
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during later missions, astronauts will transfer from
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Orion to Starship via the Gateway Lunar Space Station.
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So Artemis 3, they're in Orion, they dock with Starship, they go
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to the Moon. Anything after that?
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Later missions, possibly even Artemis 4.
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They might not have the lunar station quite ready yet, so they
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might do this again for Artemis 4, but they're going to have a
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Gateway Lunar station for later Artemis missions based on
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Spacex's prior flight proven Dragon 2 docking system used on
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missions to the ISS. The Starship Docking system can
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be configured to connect the Lander to Orion or to the
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gateway, so everything's compatible.
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Docking system tests for Starship HLS we're conducting at
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NASA's Johnson Space Center over 10 days using a system that
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simulates contact dynamics between 2 spacecraft in orbit
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testing, including more than 200 docking scenarios.
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So docking scenarios could be, This might be a little bit of a
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sketchy, weird way to do a docking scenario.
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But let's see, we got some iced coffee here, right?
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Let's just say this is, this is Orion, and then this is
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Starship. Oh, this is going to be super
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dangerous. There's a straw.
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Super dangerous. So we got Orion, we got
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Starship. It says, they say they dock like
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this, right? Say if they're going to dock
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like this, they're probably not going to dock like this.
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Let's say if they dock like this, just say these are the
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docking mechanism. 200 different ways.
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They could go straight on, they could go at a little bit of an
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angle like this, so they can mate a little bit off, off
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kilter. Anyway, you want to put up 200
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different docking scenarios, whether it's speed, velocity,
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range, whatever, you know, whatever it is, they did 200
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different docking scenarios between these two docking
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simulators. So the real world result using
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full scale hardware will validate computer models of the
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moon Landers docking system. So they they want, they did it
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first with computers. They made sure that everything
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should work and they figured out, hey it's probably going to
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work, let's make these things for real.
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So they made the actual docking mechanisms, which is great, but
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now you know 200 docking scenario, that's really bright,
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200 docking scenarios later. And they are looks like they're
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good to go with these things. Dynamic testing that the
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Starship system can perform a soft capture while an active
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docking role. And then when two spacecraft
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dock, one vehicle is a chaser and the other one's a target,
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someone's coming, flying at it. It's sort of like International
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Space Station is the target, right?
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So it's flying around the Earth, incredible amounts of speed.
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And then the chaser, like the craft that's going towards the
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International Space Station, has to catch up to it, and it's the
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chaser, it's chasing it along the path to form, perform a soft
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capture. The soft capture system of the
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active docking system is extended, while the passive
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system on the other spacecraft remains retracted, latches and
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other mechanisms. So it's very, very similar to
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the International Space Station Docking System.
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Connective along the two spacecraft to dock since being
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selected on the moon Lander to return humans to the surface and
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the moon since Apollo. SpaceX has completed, oh, we go
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more than 830 HLS specific milestones by defining and
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testing hardware needed for power generation,
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communications, guidance and navigation, propulsion, life
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life support and space environments protection.
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So 30 milestones, a lot of different things.
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They've done a lot of different things.
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Power generation communications, whether that's internal
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communications or communications with from the spacecraft to the
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Earth, so that what are the spacecraft, what are the
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milestones? Could be Starship communicating
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with ground satellites or it could be communicating with
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Starlink, you know, things like that.
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So yeah, so we're not exactly sure what those 30 milestones
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are, but they did a lot of them. So, yeah, so that is a really
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interesting thing that's happening right now with with
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Starship. I'm, I'm really excited about
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this. But I mean, look at this, look
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at these mechanics, so beautiful, so much wiring, so
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much engineering here. Totally wild, totally wild.
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Let's see what's going on in chat here.
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Let's take a second here. Let's take a second here.
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What do you guys think? I think that's really it.
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It shows that they're really pushing for this Artemis 3
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mission. They're working alongside.
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Like they're they're doing everything at Starbase to launch
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the thing, right. They're doing everything they
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can to launch as many starships as possible.
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But also over at NASA. They're working with NASA for
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Artemis 3. That's wild.
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Odysseus is napping, but still working.
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Same with Jax's Slim. Yeah, I saw that, Michael.
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We're going to talk about that a little bit later.
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That's trying to make this universal standard.
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I hope so. I hope they make a universal
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standard for docking. They have a, you know, like a
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pretty good standard for docking right now.
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But a universal standard would be incredible because every
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nation could use it, every spacecraft could use it, and
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then they could move forward and keep building upon the, you
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know, the the legacy hardware that's been around for so long.
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Holly says I'm forever grateful for all your advice and
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encouragement along the way. Oh, yeah, of course, Holly.
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Of course I'm happy you're you're doing your thing.
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I'm so I'm the supporter of anybody that loves spaceflight.
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Anybody that loves spaceflight. It isn't a jerk, you know, Like,
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be nice, love spaceflight. I'm your friend.
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Like, that's it. That's all I want.
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So, like, I'm happy. I'm.
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I'm just grateful that you're out there doing your thing.
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Gateway is going to be the business.
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Yeah. To the surface.
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And then it falls over. Oh devs, No, but it is exciting
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stuff. Brian Reynolds says hello from
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Delaware. Yeah, Delaware, nice.
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Dragon XL? Not quite yet, I think.
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I think that's kind of on hold right now.
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Michael Maxey says SpaceX showed a picture of the document for
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HLS to Orion yet. Isn't it wild?
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It's such a wild mechanism and it's such a big thing.
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You don't realize how big these things are.
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But Starship is a, it's 30 feet around.
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Like, that's the size of a house.
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I'm looking at my house right now and I'm like, this room is
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like 10 or 12 or whatever. And that one's like 10 or 12.
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And then we have like a little yard on the side.
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So like my house, what, you know, it's about the size of my
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house. And you're going to be inside of
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that, going down to the surface of the moon.
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That's wild. But it's also 100 feet tall, 150
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feet tall. So what is this?
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What kind of timeline are we living right now?
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So NC Davis says, I think the ISS docking parts have a male
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female part. These are mirror images that can
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be both active and password. Dragon can't dock with a dragon
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today. This fixes that.
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Oh, oh, that's interesting. NC Davis, I did not read that
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for ISS docking. Dragon must get to altitude
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ahead of ISS. Yeah, they have to.
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They have. They're chasing it the whole
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time. And they have to, they have to
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go faster than the ISS. They have to catch up to it.
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Wild. It's it's such a wild thing to
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think about something that's going as fast as the ISS.
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Let's see how fast it I know it's incredibly fast, like 25
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bazillion miles an hour, 17,400 mph, the ISS, 28,000 kilometers
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per hour. And you have to catch up to
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that. You have a spacecraft that has
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to catch up to that. So that's a wild thing to begin
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with. 17,400 mph, you have to catch up to it.
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You have to catch up to the target.
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So it's not the same as orbiting the moon.
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They're gonna be docking in lunar orbit.
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It's not gonna be the same thing, but it's similar.
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They have to catch up, You know, they have to.
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There's a, there's a docker, you know, like there's a a a ship
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that they're going to be docking with and there's going to be,
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what did they say here? What?
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The soft capture chaser and the target, that's what they use,
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the terms chaser and a target. So the target would be Orion, I
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guess, right. And then Starship has to catch
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up to Orion. Is that how this works?
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Yeah, because they're gonna launch the the people.
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Wait a second. Don't say that Starship could
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perform a soft capture while in while A2 spacecraft dock.
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One vehicle is the active chaser role while the other is in a
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target role. It doesn't say which one's which
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this time, though. OK, so I'll have to do a little
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bit more research and figure that out.
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Which one's gonna be the chaser and which one's gonna be the
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target. Interesting.
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Though I believe NASA open sources it.
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Oh, they open sourced the docking mechanism.
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That's that's very cool. It shows that space is hard with
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faulty connection and it's over. Yeah, I I mean it's true.
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You know if you have 1000 things right, Say say you have 1000
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things in your spacecraft. If one of those thousand things
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go wrong, everything goes wrong. You have to have 1000 things go
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right in order for everything to go right, for like 1 big thing
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to go right. But if one thing goes wrong, the
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whole thing, you know, the whole mission could be scrubbed.
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So it is. It's an incredible feat of
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engineering what they're doing already.
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But I I can't wait for the future.
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And here's a screenshot of from Le Padre of the ship that's.
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Going to be raised up hopefully, hopefully later today.
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I'm hoping it goes today, but the weather is getting a little
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bit wonky down there. So if they're going to put it
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up, I don't know if they're going to wait or not because
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there's some, there's some like kind of wonky weather going on,
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high winds and some rain. And usually when that stuff
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happens, like the high winds happen, it's probably not a good
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idea to stack a ship on top of a booster.
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They've done it before and it's been fine, but for the most
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part, it's probably safer to not have a ship on top of a booster
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with high winds and, you know, a lot of rain and stuff.
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So keep it on the ground for now.
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Maybe. Maybe it's going to, maybe
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they're going to wait like a a day or two until this storm
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passes. But it's just really foggy and
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wet there today. And yeah, so hopefully,
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hopefully the storm passes soon and they can stack this up.
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They might even stack it up today.
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We don't know. But it looks like it's right
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there. It's going to happen like as
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soon as possible, a little stack and then who knows when will the
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launch be, When will IFT 3 be? Not 100% sure.
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We're we're hoping sometime in March, sometime in March.
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So I'm hoping first couple weeks of March, which would be great,
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but I'm expecting Starship to be ready to do the final testing
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within about a week from now. They'll have all the tests ready
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and then Flight Termination System and also the FEA will
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allow them to fly, they'll give them a flight license.
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And then I mean it's it's March tomorrow, it's leap day, happy
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leap day everybody. Yeah.
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So it could be within the next week or two do we see a flight
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of Starship? I would really love to get
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there. I would really, really love to
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get there. Unfortunately, I cannot take
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that much time to go to this launch without a plan ahead of
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time. So I have to wait till I have
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T4. So I'm going to start that
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campaign as soon as possible, the FT4 campaign and get, I'll
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get there, I'll get to IFT 4, yeah, that would be cool.
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So but I'll be I'll be here to stream IFT 3 so stay here
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subscribe hit the like button etcetera so we can be together
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and watch this sweet launch together.
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I would you know I I really love everyday astronauts coverage.
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I think he has the best coverage mainly because he's there doing
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it you know he he's there doing it in the studio while they're
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prepping for the launch and they have all the cameras.
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I think he has the best angles as well.
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I think his production quality is like way above everybody
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else. So NASA Space Flight has great
23:05
coverage as well. Le Padre has great coverage as
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well. But I I would say that I was
23:11
going to say angry astronaut, the angry astronaut.
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I love. I love the angry astronaut.
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He's so funny, dude. He's like the bad guy in
23:18
wrestling, you know, he's like the bad guy, the heel in
23:21
wrestling. He's so funny.
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He's a good guy. Like in real life, you know,
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when when he's talking like smack about rocket companies,
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it's hilarious. But he's right most of the time,
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right? Like he has, he has a lot of
23:34
good points, but also like him on screen is him like turned up
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to 11, you know, So he's a good guy.
23:44
Like, I've talked to him in real life and just hang out like we
23:46
hung out. We did a show together and he's
23:48
just like a chill dude, Robert says.
23:51
I believe Starship has to perform a landing before
23:54
demonstration. Do they have to take off again?
23:58
I think the requirement was to not take off.
24:02
I'm going to look into that though, because I you do have a
24:04
good point. The requirement wasn't to take
24:07
off, but IA 100% sure SpaceX will take off.
24:12
They'll just do it anyway, you know, They have to prove it to
24:15
themselves. They have to prove it to
24:16
everybody that they can actually do that because like they they
24:20
should like that should be the requirement, right, to get to
24:22
the lunar surface and take off again to get back to lunar
24:25
orbit. It would be silly if they didn't
24:27
have that requirement because they can't just like get to the
24:30
lunar surface and then oh, maybe we are stuck down here.
24:34
What's going to happen then? That's a wild thing to think
24:37
about. There are contingency plans for
24:40
that. But yeah, I'm not, I'm not sure
24:43
the spec of that off the top of my head.
24:45
Also, thank you for the 40 likes.
24:47
We have 72 people here. If we can get 10 of you to hit
24:50
the like button, that would be great.
24:52
Just so we can get it up to around 50, that would be
24:56
amazing. Also, I want to bring something
24:59
to your attention is that if you love Space Flight and if you
25:03
love Starship and SpaceX in NASA, an easy way to get
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different different people in your feed, like different
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channels in your feed, subscribe to a channel that you like to
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watch. Like if you subscribe to this
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channel, you'll get more Space Flight news in your YouTube
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feed. If you like this video, YouTube
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will see that as well. And they'll say, hey yeah, this
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person likes Spaceflight so much that they liked and they
25:32
subscribed to Spaceflight channel.
25:34
And if you make a comment or if you chat, you know, be active
25:38
and chat like that's that's a really fun thing to do too.
25:40
I love to talk with you guys about on a Starship and like
25:43
just be active and chat. I think it'd be really fun to
25:45
talk to anybody with an opinion. Make your opinion known, make
25:49
your voice heard. Helps me out a little bit like
25:54
it does. It's not going to like make me
25:55
rich or anything, so I'm just being.
25:58
Completely. Honest with you here.
25:59
I've talked to YouTube reps about this and you know, they
26:02
they said those things actually happen and those things work.
26:05
So yeah, I I do it all the time. I subscribe to like random Space
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Flight reporters. I'm like, oh cool, let's see
26:12
what's going on with this person.
26:14
You know, I'll, I'll start getting more recommendations in
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my feed. So yeah, take a second.
26:19
Do that and help out the channel a little bit.
26:21
You know, we're growing towards 100,000, we're at 91.
26:25
We're almost at 92 thousand, 91,883 right now.
26:29
So if we could get seven more people, we'd be at 91,890.
26:34
If we get 17, we'd be at 91,900. So we have 71 people here.
26:40
We can get 17 of you to subscribe to the channel.
26:43
I know it's a big ask, I know it's a big ask, but if we get 17
26:47
people to sub, that'd be great. Get us, get us that much closer.
26:51
91,900 would be a really good milestone for Leap Day.
26:58
It's a very cool and relaxing. Way to spend a few hours here.
27:00
Yeah, I agree. Naked, I agree it's.
27:03
And the cool thing about our community is that we're very
27:07
positive community. It's it's like a tight knit, fun
27:10
community, very relaxed, very laid back.
27:13
You know, if you want all the hard science and hard data about
27:18
this stuff, there are other channels out there, but I just
27:20
like to have a good conversation with you guys, so it's it's
27:23
very, very fun, very positive, Gardner says.
27:29
It's very positive. Alongside the rest of the bad
27:31
news, usually get in the feed. So happy to be able to talk
27:33
about my favorite topic, spaceflight.
27:35
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
27:39
Oh, Debs, you caught that. OK, SNP, what is the 3/12/24?
27:45
That's my guess for the launch of Starship.
27:49
It's my Easter egg. 3/12/24 January, January, February,
27:54
March 3rd month 12th day 2024. That's my Easter egg to that's
28:00
my guess when we're going to be launching the Starship.
28:03
Good catch. And next time I'm at launch,
28:07
I'll let you know. Oh, that'd be that's cool man.
28:09
I'm so IFT 4 is definitely a thing that I'm working towards.
28:13
I was going to go to Crew 8, That's not going to happen.
28:17
I have some other commitments I have to do.
28:19
So Crew 8 is out of the question for me right now.
28:22
The next crew launch, Crew nine. I'll go to that and I want to do
28:28
all the IFTS from here on out. IFT 4, IFT 5, IFT 6, IFT 7.
28:32
I'm planning on all of them, so if you want to help.
28:36
If you want to help. Subscribe to the channel.
28:38
Easy Free takes a second. Like this video.
28:40
We got 53 likes. Or become a member of the
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channel. If you become a member of the
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channel, it's like 5 bucks a month or something.
28:46
I think it's for three to $5 a month and you're going to help.
28:51
Not only like you know you can help me get to these these
28:54
flights and I'll do live coverage from them, you'll be
28:57
able to take the journey with me too.
28:59
Live blogging, like vlogging along the way, you know things
29:03
like that. So you can help.
29:06
You can help out. That's the way I raise money for
29:08
this channel. I do it because I I think it's
29:10
fun. I don't make a ton of money from
29:11
it, but it's it's really fun. You get these straight.
29:14
Yeah. Debs, you found it.
29:17
Booking the time for four. Yeah.
29:18
So The thing is, I have to like doing all these launches is
29:23
incredibly expensive to go see a launch unless you're going to go
29:28
dirt cheap on this stuff. And I'm like, I don't want to go
29:31
dirt cheap because I want to wake up in the morning and not
29:34
feel like junk the day of the launch, you know, or the day
29:37
after the launch. So I mean there are very
29:40
inexpensive hotels and motels in in Brownsville.
29:45
So we have to you have to take that in consideration.
29:48
So when you're gonna go for a flight?
29:49
When you go, go see a flight. There's hotels.
29:54
There's travel. You know, if you're gonna, if
29:56
you're gonna drive there, it's going to be a while before you
29:59
get there. So it's might be 20 hours or
30:02
something to drive there. Pretty long drive.
30:06
Do that in a couple days, do that two days, maybe 10 hour
30:08
days and then when you get there you need a hotel for a couple
30:12
days because you never know if IFT you know if the launch is
30:15
going to actually happen the day that it's scheduled to happen.
30:18
So it's going to take a bunch of.
30:22
Yeah. Yeah, it's going to take a take
30:25
a little bit of Cha Ching, right.
30:28
So like if you if you they say it's going to happen on a
30:30
Thursday, it might happen on a Monday.
30:33
So you got to book your hotel from Thursday to Tuesday
30:36
probably and that's they jacked up the rates because it's surge
30:39
pricing of course. So a little motel that's 50
30:42
bucks goes up to 100 bucks just for that flight or something on
30:47
the island where you have a deck that you can watch the launch
30:52
from, you know, surge pricing, it's usually 120 bucks or
30:56
something. And now it's at $300.00 per day,
30:59
you know, something, something like that.
31:01
So the bad thing is that happens, right?
31:05
So you have to plan ahead. It's going to cost 1000 bucks to
31:08
go there. Yeah.
31:10
And it's, you know, when I lived in Brownsville, it's great.
31:13
I was hoping that for the, the Booster 4 ship 20 would launch.
31:20
Didn't happen when I was there. So it was it would have been
31:23
cheaper for me. I mean, it was cheaper for me.
31:28
Not cheaper, I wouldn't say. Cheaper.
31:29
It was more economically feasible for me to live in
31:32
Brownsville, get the coverage of Starship that I could for the
31:35
year that I was there, and hope that a flight was going to
31:39
happen and the flight never happened.
31:41
So yeah, so I'm going to, I'm campaigning for IFT 4 here.
31:45
We're going to be doing that soon.
31:47
By the way, is the feed, is the feed clean for you guys or does
31:52
it glitch or anything? Because I'm like watching the
31:54
feed here on my side and it looks a little glitchy.
31:57
I'm not sure. Got a camper?
31:59
Yeah, I was. Actually thinking about renting
32:01
like some sort of van or camper that I could sleep in, you know,
32:06
there's there's plenty of options out there.
32:10
Oh, it happened. To you.
32:11
Oh no, Gardner. That's not good.
32:14
Went there for a week, ended up there two weeks.
32:16
Oh, nice. Did you Have you seen an IFT
32:18
launch or a Starship launch? I haven't seen 1 yet.
32:21
I've I've been my life has been so hectic over the last like 2
32:25
years that I haven't had a chance to go to launch.
32:30
Yeah, so. Yeah, the the flight of IMT 3
32:34
sometime. Just when ads pop up.
32:37
OK, cool. Yeah, and I have no control over
32:39
that count. That's all YouTube doing the
32:41
ads. I don't press a button to do ads
32:43
or anything, so yeah, OK, cool. Yeah, I think it's just me.
32:48
Then I think it's just me on my side that it just looks weird,
32:51
looks glitchy on my side. Thank you for that input.
32:55
Appreciate that. So yeah, but if you're going to
32:58
a flight, if you're going to a Starship flight, plan ahead, you
33:02
know? So one of the the.
33:04
Advice that I can give you if you're going to Starbase itself,
33:08
bring a ton of water, like, like.
33:12
And I hate to do this because it's not like the best thing to
33:14
do, get a jug of water, you know, like a gallon of water.
33:17
But also get, like, water bottles, like a big 24 pack of
33:20
water bottles. Not the best thing to do.
33:22
Usually fill up something like this and take it with you.
33:25
But if you're going to be there for hours, bring water with you,
33:29
'cause you're going to need it. It's really hot at Starbase, you
33:33
know, It's really, really hot at Starbase.
33:36
So don't dehydrate. Bring snacks with you too,
33:38
because there's no way to get food down there.
33:40
There's no way to get water or food or a toilet.
33:43
Like, there's no bathroom at Starbase.
33:45
There's no public facilities. You have to drive 20 minutes
33:48
back to Brownsville to go to the restroom.
33:53
So just keep that in mind when you actually go on your trip to
33:58
Starbase. It's it's a wild place down
34:01
there. It's for free for all side of
34:05
the road you park in the side of the road, it's cool.
34:07
You park wherever you can. Nobody, you know, you can park
34:11
where Hwy. 4 is, a public parking area off the side, can't
34:16
park in the road, but anything off the road you can park over
34:18
there. So just take it, you know, take
34:22
advantage of that when you're down there and just go chill
34:25
out, go hang out, be nice to people, you know, that's the
34:28
best place, the best way to do it.
34:30
And get out of the way of SpaceX.
34:32
That's another thing you gotta do.
34:32
Get out of the way of SpaceX because they're there to do
34:35
work. The workers there say hi and
34:38
like, hey guys, what's up? I got to know a bunch of them
34:41
when I was there. Very cool people, very nice
34:43
people, hard working people. They're out there in the heat
34:46
all day. You know, give a thumbs up,
34:50
whatever, you know, wave to them, sit, you know, just
34:52
normal. They're just normal people doing
34:54
work. Yeah, So it's it's it's going to
34:59
be a fun IFT 4 for me, Wessex says.
35:03
I love your channel because you're always answering people's
35:05
questions, unlike some of the other channels.
35:07
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think questions should
35:10
be answered. If you donate.
35:13
Only, like, I think that's weird.
35:15
I think, like, I I understand they're doing a business.
35:18
Like, they're. I mean, I could do that and make
35:21
more money, but, like, why would I?
35:23
That's not the kind of person I am.
35:25
I like, I love money. Trust me, Trust me.
35:28
I'd love to get. I'd love to be able to afford
35:30
things. But.
35:35
I'm here for for Space Flight, you know, I'm here for to create
35:39
a positive atmosphere and a cool community for people to enjoy
35:44
Space Flight in. So that's, you know, that's why
35:47
I I like you guys too. Like I like our community and we
35:51
have 63 likes. Speaking of likes, yeah, I like
35:54
our community because we're like everyone that comes here is
35:57
pretty cool. Every once in a while I get a
36:00
wild person, You know, get a get a troll.
36:03
But if you do, you just ban them.
36:04
Whatever. Not a big deal.
36:08
So yeah, that's. That's one of the things that I
36:10
like about, like how I wanted to make this community really
36:14
positive. I didn't want it to be like
36:16
every other community out there. I didn't want any negativity.
36:19
I wanted people to enjoy Space Flight.
36:21
Talk about Starship. You know, I'm a huge SpaceX fan,
36:26
huge SpaceX fan. I've been doing this channel for
36:28
like 4 years. Slow and steady is the growth
36:32
rate, which is fine with me. I'm cool with that.
36:34
Do what I love to have over 100,000 subscribers, That'd be
36:37
cool. It's just a number though, you
36:39
know, We have 91,883 right now. If we can get seven more Subs,
36:45
91,890, that would be cool. That would be a nice way to end
36:49
the stream today. If we don't get it, that's cool.
36:53
But I would love for people to enjoy Starship.
36:57
That's it. That's it.
36:58
That's all I want. Speaking of that, we have one
37:02
last thing to talk about today, and it's not Starship related.
37:06
It's intuitive machines, but it's kind of Starship related
37:09
because Artemis missions are sort of Starship, right?
37:12
Odysseus continues to operate on the lunar surface.
37:14
That was the Lander. The IM one Lander landed on the
37:18
moon, flipped over on its side, and approximately 1100 CST.
37:24
Flight controllers intend to downlink additional data and
37:27
command OD into a configuration that he may phone home if and
37:31
when he wakes up when the sun rises again.
37:34
So ODI is going to sleep for now.
37:38
And we will see. Odysseus on the other side of
37:41
the lunar night, hopefully. I hope we do.
37:45
I really hope we do. It's.
37:49
It's an inspiring. Mission.
37:51
Some people think it's a failure.
37:53
And to those people. I think.
37:59
You're completely wrong. You're absolutely wrong, because
38:04
you know who makes up those rules.
38:06
Not you. You know who makes up those
38:09
rules. NASA and Intuitive machines make
38:12
up the rules, so if you want to make up your own rules, that's
38:15
your own game. Intuitive Machines says this is
38:18
a huge success. They landed on the moon.
38:21
Not 100% perfect, but their science missions were
38:25
successful. They have a bunch of data that
38:28
they can sift through now, so if they want to call it a success,
38:33
that's their right to call it a success.
38:35
But I'm going to tell you, if you think this thing, if
38:38
Intuitive Machines Lander is a failure, you may want to think
38:43
again because it is not a failure they've done.
38:46
They've gathered so much data, and this is the first time that
38:50
anything is landed on the moon from a commercial spaceflight
38:54
company. Ever, Ever.
38:58
That's huge. That alone is 100% success for
39:04
the mission. Did they do it perfectly?
39:06
No. No, they didn't.
39:07
Were there people on board? No.
39:09
Did they have to do it perfect? No, they didn't.
39:13
They never expected it. To go 100%, you know that when
39:16
you when you do a mission like this, there's a certain
39:20
approximate percentage that may go wrong and they factor that in
39:28
like hey, you know, maybe 60% is going to work.
39:32
We would love 100% to work, but it might not work.
39:35
So let's just, you know, let's hope for the best, let's work as
39:39
hard as we can. And their time constraints were
39:43
crazy couple. They had to do this in a couple
39:45
of years, like four years or something, four or five years.
39:49
So building a lunar Lander in like 4 or five years for a
39:52
private company that's never done it before and it made it to
39:56
the moon and it landed, that's a huge success.
40:00
That's a huge, huge success. So I think if if you wanna throw
40:07
stones at glass houses, just look inside of yourself.
40:11
Why are you so mean? Just be happy that I am 1 landed
40:16
on the moon, man, right? Like, just be happy.
40:19
Just be happy that they did it. And also this data is going to
40:23
be. It's super important for the
40:27
Artemis missions coming up. So Artemis 2, Artemis 3, Artemis
40:32
4, Artemis 5. When people land on the moon
40:34
again, this is going to be one of those Landers that gives them
40:41
so much data that they can sift through and they can learn from.
40:45
It'll protect the people that land on the moon.
40:48
So anyone that says I am, I am one is a failure.
40:54
I don't think you're right. I think you're completely wrong.
40:56
So that's, that's my opinion on this.
41:00
I am one complete success. I am one.
41:03
Those who say I am one. Odysseus is a failure.
41:06
Don't remember or we're not alive to know the failures NASA
41:09
had getting Apollo to the moon. Hundreds of failures for NASA.
41:15
Yeah, you know, people. You know, people died.
41:25
During the Apollo program. Right, Apollo 1.
41:28
Crew capsule. There's a launch rehearsal and
41:33
three people, Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chafee, died
41:39
in 1967 due to a fire inside of their capsule.
41:45
So you know, NASA, you know is is many things they've done
41:51
right. They've also had like that's a
41:54
massive failure. Yeah, Gemini.
41:58
Yeah. Remember Gemini?
41:59
High oxygen and pressure. Yeah.
42:01
When they see people on the moon again, Yeah.
42:02
I'm going to be to reawaken in a Yeah, it's going to be crazy,
42:07
Gardner. When they when people do step on
42:09
the moon again, I think more that we're going to get more
42:12
engineers, more scientists, we're going to get more people
42:15
that just kind of wake up. You know.
42:20
And realize how cool space is again.
42:23
Because right now, like Starship, it's ours.
42:27
You know, it's it's ours Right now we have a really small
42:29
community, no matter how many people watch, you know, bigger
42:33
streams like NASA Space Flight or, you know, whoever everyday
42:37
astronaut or whatever. Thousands of people watch those
42:40
dreams, 10s of thousands of people watch those streams, 10s
42:42
of thousands of people watch NASA streams of human launches.
42:46
But. And you gotta remember.
42:48
That like millions and millions and millions of people tuned in.
42:52
How many people watched the lunar landing?
42:54
Let's see. I think it was like the biggest
42:57
broadcast of all time or something.
42:59
Apollo lunar landing. TVTV stats that Let's see.
43:10
Let's Google that estimated 150 million Americans. 150 million
43:19
watched the Apollo landing. What this is like in plus the
43:27
replays. All that stuff. 150 million
43:29
people watched it live. Yeah, that's according to.
43:34
The National Aero Air and Space Museum, so they said, estimated
43:41
650 million people around the globe. 650 million people.
43:48
How many like Mr. Beast? OK, let's see how many, How
43:51
many? Let's see.
43:53
Mr. Beast. Beast.
43:55
There we go. Let's see what his top video is.
43:58
Mr. Beast. His top video?
44:01
Popular videos, 580 million for Mr. B, That's a lot.
44:06
I was going to, I was going to be like, yo, I bet it's like 100
44:10
million, but that's a lot. All right.
44:12
Maybe that isn't the best comparison because every one of
44:15
his videos, like all of his top videos have like hundreds of
44:18
millions, like 300 million views.
44:20
OK, that's not a very, that's not the best comparison.
44:22
But you know, 650 million people watching the lunar landing, it's
44:28
going to be very similar. I think it's going to be similar
44:31
to that. Yeah.
44:35
Yeah. Well, TV was still black and
44:37
white screen only. Yeah, and you only had like 3
44:38
stations at that point, right? Yeah, it's crazy.
44:46
Just join the channel. Received.
44:47
Thank you. I wasn't sure if I had updated
44:49
you, but am recognized by the FAA to fly at 100,000 feet since
44:53
returning from Biosphere, where I did my Spacey pressurization
44:56
training and water egress. Oh dude Holly, That's cool.
45:01
That's very cool. I didn't know that 100,000 feet
45:05
that's up there dead. Put me in front of TV history.
45:08
Watch it. Yeah, that's.
45:10
Yeah, I'm gonna do that with my boy.
45:12
When Artemis goes again Artemis 2, I'll be like, dude, you gotta
45:15
watch this. 'Cause he's 3 now.
45:19
And when you know when Artemis 2 happens, it'll be like four or
45:22
five. So at that point I'll be like,
45:24
hey, check this out or I'll take him with me to the launch.
45:29
You know that's gonna. Be cool.
45:30
Oh, I got a kid now. I don't know if you guys know
45:32
this. Like a three-year old boy, Yeah,
45:37
if you've been following the channel.
45:38
For a long time I had some light, some massive life changes
45:40
within the last. Four months.
45:45
Three months. Yeah, I moved.
45:48
So little history here, girl. I used to date a long time ago.
45:54
We've always been, we've always talked, always connected.
45:57
But within the last, like 6 months, we decided to give it
46:03
another shot. And we're like, yeah, we've been
46:06
like, you know, we've been kind of in love for like the last in
46:10
this, like not Space Flight related, but we've been in love
46:12
for like the last 30 years. But we have like these different
46:14
paths in life. We can do it.
46:16
Can do it like the relationship thing.
46:18
And we're like, hey, we're both in good places.
46:21
Let's do this. So she has a kid.
46:24
And I'm like, whatever. I like kids.
46:26
They're cool. And then I was like, I live in
46:29
Vermont. She lives in Savannah, GA.
46:33
She has this really great job in Savannah, and I live in Vermont
46:36
and I do YouTube and podcasts for a living.
46:39
So I was like, whatever, I'll just go down there.
46:44
I got a studio. I can.
46:44
Just set it up anywhere. I don't care.
46:47
So here I am in Savannah, GA now.
46:50
Pretty crazy. I love it.
46:52
It's very cool and up close to NASA.
46:53
So like, that was another thing. Like, that's another selling
46:56
point. I was like, you're close to NASA
46:58
and. Like, cool.
47:01
Girl, cool kid. All right, let's do it.
47:05
So yeah, that was that was a wild, wild trip, though.
47:08
So now I got a little boy, and now I can I can teach him all
47:11
about spaceflight. He likes rockets.
47:13
He thinks they're cool. But I don't know if he was going
47:17
to like. The wildness.
47:20
I think he would like the wildness of the Artemis mission
47:23
because it's a lot of people. A million people will probably
47:26
show up for the Artemis launches.
47:31
Yeah, so. What's your podcast name?
47:33
It's called, I call it SpaceX Newspod.
47:36
It's like an actual podcast. It's similar to this.
47:39
And like these are like when I do these kind of shows, these
47:42
get uploaded to that too. I also have a show called the
47:45
Elon Musk Podcast, which I do news all about Elon's companies.
47:50
So that's another one. And I have another one that's
47:52
coming out soon about AI and technology and I haven't
47:58
launched that yet. I've done a soft launch, but I'm
48:00
not really happy with it. So I have to retool some stuff.
48:05
So yeah, I gotta, I gotta redo that.
48:07
But I'll let you guys know about that one too.
48:09
It's pretty cool and there's links in the.
48:11
Maybe in the description for the for the podcast, not sure, but
48:17
they're also in the. Also on the YouTube.
48:21
Page too. Yeah.
48:26
It's a science fest. Yeah, that's going to be crazy,
48:28
right? That's going to be awesome.
48:29
Spend George's about six hours. Drive to Huntsville, AL.
48:32
Yeah, six hours is not like super crazy.
48:38
It's like a, you know? It's a day trip.
48:39
You'd go there in one day and then you have to stay the night
48:42
and then do some Huntsville hunts, Huntsville AL stuff.
48:48
At NASA. That'd be fun.
48:49
That'd be really fun. But yeah, Starbase is about 20
48:54
hours from here. Plan on making a trip for IFT 4,
48:58
IFT 3. Not going to make it there.
49:00
Still getting my getting my bearings here.
49:02
I've only been here for about a month.
49:04
Still settling in. Finally got my studio set up.
49:06
I was on the kitchen table for the longest time and like the
49:09
studio was on the kitchen table for the longest time.
49:11
We didn't have any place to eat. Like I would eat at my computer
49:14
and everybody would like we'd eat around like my computer.
49:18
It was funny. Thoughts about IFT 3 success?
49:22
I think they've worked out some bugs from IFT 2 stage separation
49:28
I think is gonna be cleaner booster.
49:37
I don't think the booster. 'S gonna make it.
49:41
Just a hunch, no? Reasoning.
49:45
So I don't think Booster's gonna make it.
49:47
I think the ship's gonna do fine and the the experiments on the
49:51
ship are gonna do fine. They have a propellant transfer.
49:57
Experiment that they're. Going to be doing, and they're
49:59
also going to be doing a possible Starlink experiment on
50:03
the ship. So I think the ship's going to
50:06
be fine. I think they're going to be able
50:07
to do that. But I don't think the booster's.
50:10
Going to make it back, I think it's going to blow up again.
50:13
I think it's, I think it's going to be more successful than last
50:16
time. I just don't think it's going to
50:18
make it all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico in one piece.
50:22
I think IFT 4 and IFT 5 are going to be the turning points
50:26
for Booster and also the ship is going, I think they're gonna
50:30
start doing soft landings with Booster IFT 4 and IFT 5.
50:33
I think it's gonna be good then. But right now I I don't think
50:39
they I I think they I think they'll get to a good point.
50:44
But I don't think they're gonna be 100% successful landing both
50:47
the ship and the booster. I feel Booster 10 will make
50:51
Michael Maxey says feel. Booster 10 will make splash
50:53
down. Ship 28 May not survive reentry.
50:56
If it does it will splash down. Who do you think booster 10 will
51:00
make the splash down? I I I don't know.
51:04
I'm I'm hope. I hope they put the checks in
51:06
place to mitigate what happened last time.
51:10
I really do. Five and six for you.
51:15
Oh yeah, It seems like a seems like an interest.
51:18
Like we're right in the middle of like stuff's going to start
51:22
working anytime now. Like they might get lucky and
51:26
everything works. You know, like their engineering
51:28
is great, science is great, but they may just like a valve might
51:32
just, you know, valves are always, you know, in they're
51:36
always a thing, right? Things get clogged up.
51:40
So there's a possibility that happens and we lose a booster.
51:47
How many launches? This year and your guess, so
51:51
we're already in March, so that's three months in if they
51:55
even if they do a two-month turn around.
51:59
That would be. 7 altogether, if they do a 2:00-ish month turn
52:04
around, that'd be 7:00-ish six or seven, so I think they could.
52:14
Get 5 Yeah, I don't know. I it seems like you know 5:00 to
52:22
7:00 somewhere in that range. I think that's all they're going
52:24
to be able to do. I think it it's going to be
52:29
because as you know things happen.
52:32
This booster booster tent had to go back to the the Bay.
52:35
The ship had to get tested again.
52:37
Things happen, you know like if the maybe they're a couple weeks
52:40
behind. The FAA is also involved.
52:43
If SpaceX does this next test Florida State, the FAA will just
52:48
kind of like step back a little bit, be like, oh, that was
52:50
great, good job. Let's, you know, is there
52:53
anything that happens SpaceX and SpaceX will be like, yeah,
52:56
there's like this one or two, one or two things that we can
52:58
close out and then. They'll be able to fly.
53:02
Again, the FAA will approve them much faster, like every time,
53:05
because if they show that they can fly at a better cadence and
53:09
with, you know, more precision, I think they're gonna, I think
53:16
the FAA is gonna step up their game and just get them going,
53:19
you know, as soon as possible. Because the FAA, they released a
53:22
statement couple days ago that actually said that they are
53:26
ready. Like they're working with SpaceX
53:28
hand in hand, like ready to go. They want this thing to fly.
53:31
Like they're not holding SpaceX back.
53:33
They want everything to go. I'm trying to find out my tabs.
53:35
I don't think I have it, but they want them to go as fast as
53:39
possible. They wanted to launch as fast as
53:41
possible. So yeah, they have a, they have
53:45
a, you know, they have a vested interest in getting this thing
53:49
flying as soon as possible and as many times as possible.
53:53
So yeah, that's that's about it today, guys.
53:55
I appreciate you guys stopping by though.
53:57
I appreciate all the questions too.
53:59
So thanks. We have 69 likes, which is
54:02
really cool, but can we get 70? Let's see, can we also get Subs?
54:07
Let's see, 91,884. We got one sub in the last like
54:12
hour of me doing this, me talking my brains out.
54:15
So if somebody would be nice enough, hit the sub button.
54:21
Are they lifting it? Let me see, they're pretty
54:23
close. If they aren't lifting it right
54:25
now, it's in the in the waiting arms.
54:30
Of the. Of the chopsticks.
54:31
It's in the chopsticks now, but I don't see it lifting quite
54:36
yet. I'm looking at the streams right
54:40
now. I'm looking at NSF right now.
54:42
I don't see it lifting. Yeah, the the arms are way too
54:45
low on the ship for it to lift so soon enough, though soon
54:50
enough there might lift it today depending on the weather too.
54:53
The weather's always kind of sketchy down there, so in about
54:57
30 minutes. I mean there there's high.
55:01
Winds. It looks like some high winds
55:03
down there too, so. Yeah, but it's ready.
55:07
To ready to lift. It's pretty close.
55:10
So hopefully they'll get a lift today, maybe tomorrow.
55:14
So we like 70 views. Yeah, Very nice. 70 viewers.
55:18
Yep. Perfect.
55:19
All right. Thanks, guys.
55:20
I appreciate your time and I appreciate you spending your
55:23
time here with me on Space News pod.
55:25
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55:36
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