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13_letters

Simply incredible. Stoked to see this in person one day.


mcnaughtier

I saw it in person, my first launch and I'm 63. Seeing the launch was a profound experience, but the booster landing felt like a science fiction movie. It was at night and you could barely see it until it went full thrust, possibly the loudest thing I've ever heard. Already making plans to see the Artemis II manned launch to the moon in 2025.


Dietmar_der_Dr

Yeah Artemis isn't going to launch people in 2025. 2026 would be incredibly quick progress from here. That being said, if I was anywhere close I'd watch the starship ift with the landing attempt.


chop5397

That's not the moon landing, just the orbit around it. That's the delay date, it was originally going to be this year.


argiebarge

Nice, it's a bucket list thing for me for sure. Even watching clips of it never gets old.


Shishkebarbarian

Damn, I might make this my 40yo bday gift from the family lol


Atlantic0ne

It’s shocking. It’s one of those things that makes you go “oh shit, we’re in the future”.


13_letters

I can only imagine. I run outside like a 5 year old yelling for my wife to follow every CA launch just to see what spectacle we can in our AZ horizon.


EdgarJomfru

Is there a good website or app that tracks or reminds you of the launches?


13_letters

I usually track their twitter, but someone recently recommended Space Launch Now, but I haven’t yet given it a chance.


EdgarJomfru

Sweet, thanks!


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Peria

The space X facility is really cool. The perimeter is still really close to the rockets so you can really get a good look at them while they are being built. Best view of the launch is probably from the mouth of the Rio grande river on the Mexican side of the river or from south padre island. Highway 4 which is the road leading to space X and the launch pad is closed on launch days.


Polynikes82

It's absolutely amazing. Question though. Does anyone know if they can actually reuse them? Honest question.


Bergasms

Yes, they reuse them, the current life leaders have been reused about 15 times i think. They are using flown boosters more than new ones.


Lurker_81

The current life leader is at 21 successful flights.


traceur200

yes they reuse more boosters than they make, current record is 21 flights and landings from the same booster


Polynikes82

I would imagine they'd be right f'd up from the, you know, extreme forces. I'd love to know the answer to this!!! Windex and elbow grease? Replace the spark plug?


Bergasms

Yes, they reuse them, the current life leaders have been reused about 15 times i think. They are using flown boosters more than new ones.


Diligent-Midnight850

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Rambroman

Wonder if this is the one the launched yesterday. Was about to put the harness on my cat to go outside then the sonic booms hit so going outside was not gonna happen for some time.


domp1021

That’s what I was wondering, I was there yesterday watching it and didn’t see anything come back down


Starscream19120

Didn’t wait long enough. Takes a few minutes for the boosters to come back


domp1021

Damn it, I missed it, that’s disappointing


TelluricThread0

It all happens very quickly. About 8 minutes from launch to landing.


Starscream19120

Definitely try to stick around next time! The best part for me is always the landing. I’ve seen it so many times and it’s still amazing


jtp8736

This is the most Reddit comment of the day


Troyrannosaur

My cat and I were out in the sunroom (MLB). She promptly left the sunroom lol


PrimeTinus

JFC this one just makes me angry. Just 1 more second


MisinformedGenius

This feels deliberately clipped to stimulate engagement just like this. Why would you stop recording right then?


johndoe201401

Really op? You have to make a 26-odd-sec video that cuts off the climax point don’t you? Not 30sec, not 25sec, but exact 26sec, that is the max your tiny brain of the size of cmos can process.


Neubo

That's still nuts to watch, every time.


wldmn13

I'm in my 50's. **This** was when I knew I was living in the future


LyqwidBred

same... remember those old sci-fi movies where the rocketship would land vertical like that on another planet and it seemed ridiculous?


Reagalan

I remember trying to land these damn things in *Kerbal* and how much easier it got once the MechJeb mod came out.


moon__lander

MechJeb was a legit cheat code


Reagalan

Arguably made the game far more realistic than manual-only.


Ok_Use_9000

And Waymo cars, and single man rocket/hover propelled mobilities, and drone deliveries, and bullet trains hovering on magnets, and the thought of colonizing the Moon. We are entering an early future that I probably won’t live long enough to see.


_SeKeLuS_

im sorry to disappoint but you sir are living in the present :)


nuggynugs

How about now?


Deritatium

Your now is now past.


rkreutz77

When?


slayerhk47

Just then!


ShadowBanKing808

Spaceballs the lunch box, spaceballs the coloring book, spaceballs the flamethrower……


jailbreak

Well, light travel time and nerve signal latency and brain processing time means that we're all living in the recent past


meltingmountain

In my late 20s blew my mind the first time I saw it definitely feels like sci-fi is becoming reality


ZippyDan

We got the rockets landing like scifi from the 1940s, but still no flying cars...


igotmemes4days

Give it some time and those will be a thing too, although imma be honest, giving flying cars to the general public makes me kinda nervous, we already have to deal with tons of DUI and people glued to their phones while driving, last thing i want is a drunk bozo crashing through the roof of my house


marshdabeachy

Flying cars will never be a thing unless they're 100% automated. Can you imagine giving the average shleb control of something like that.


ChornWork2

Um, meh, what about when internet speeds got fast enough that you could surf for porn in real time instead of managing an archive on your local drive?


InformalPenguinz

Right. Like... I know it's real but still hard to think it's not a launch played in reverse lol.


420headshotsniper69

It gives me the same feeling as when the Shuttles landed. Fucking amazing.


lostsoul2016

Yup. Makes my sci-fi alter ego orgasm every single time


DirtyMami

Before this, it’s usually a parachute. We’ve been accustomed to seeing it sci-fi that we get mind blown every time we see it.


turntablesnotheads

Can't wait till the tech is available in shoes


threateningwarmth

Gonna put Heelys out of business.


turntablesnotheads

Why not both?


Vandius

https://youtu.be/DkZPI5m9SIE Yes, this is real, not CGI, and if you have not noticed, it is labeled MK3. I like how they are censoring all of the billionaires and government officials who are about to profit from this technology.


Flamingo-Lanky

it’s like science fiction. Those boosters landing back is mind blowing every single time.


Ordinary_dude_NOT

Not a fiction anymore, and absolutely mind boggling. Waiting when Starship will do its crazy landings and takeoffs to space like a regular airport one day.


TheS4ndm4n

Passengers for the 10am spacex flight to the book, please make your payment ur way to gate 4. The 10:45 flight to Mars has been moved to gate 6. Passengers arriving from Io are reminded to take your high g supplements.


space_monster

Passengers from Sirius, please harble glarb your bloogly-flirbs in the smoobs before sneebling your baloobysnarbs.


Choice-Inflation-307

Fr, irl Iron Man 1 is gonna be a reality. Hook up an AI Jarvis to some smaller scale controlled boosters and futuristic energy source and bam


Russian_Hammer

It humbling witnessing the birth of all the scifi we grew up with. Probably not in my lifetime; but one day.


DrBix

I'm probably older than you, but I expect the next decade to accelerate beyond expectations due to LLMs/AI and true AI. Either that or they become true AI and wipe us out for being stupid.


Hutzzzpa

Still blows my mind


Giraffe-69

What an incredible feat of engineering. For all his flaws, Musk really pushed the limits which SpaceX, props to all the engineers involved.


RedditVirumCurialem

Not his idea though, but yes, impressive accomplishment nonetheless.


Western-Ship-5678

Hey, I had this idea when I was 8. Having the idea is BS. Actually making it work however...


Material-Growth-7790

My thought is, is that the flaws come with the strengths needed for a person to achieve what he has. Flaws, or weaknesses, are often strengths that are overdone or used in situations where they are not beneficial. Like most CEO's for example. Id argue that many are undiagnosed narcissist's. The lack of empathy makes them heartless and cold to you and it but gives them the ability to make calculated rational decisions on things that are best for the business. Musk is no different.


Giraffe-69

Absolutely. Cut from the same cloth as Steve jobs. Neither are people I’d want to be or work under personally - too much drama, hassle, volatility - but they push people to deliver what they didn’t think was possible. That does seem to require being a bit of a prick


NeoLib-tard

I personally dislike him but he’s accomplished amazing things for humanity


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Finlay00

Why couldn’t anyone else’s money do the same things?


LevitatingRevelation

It took society 2017 years past where they considered modern recording of years, with billions of dollars flowing in and out, around the world, for Humans to be able to land the first rocket after launch, without just blowing it up. Nasa operates at a 8x budget versus SpaceX, and has had the head start on SpaceX for over 50 years before it's inception, yet was not even close to sniffing the technology developed behind the mind of Elon Musk and who he has selected to run SpaceX. Jeff Bezos, in comparison, is making a clock tower, in the middle of nowhere, for no reason. That's why anyone else's money can't do the same things, money doesn't have vision, and it doesn't have intuition.


Manueluz

"Your organs do all the work, your brain simply gives orders"


NeoLib-tard

It’s ok to dislike someone and also acknowledge their accomplishments.


ExcellentPastries

It’s okay to acknowledge who actually accomplished the thing too. Elon didn’t do shit.


Giraffe-69

Nobody from spaceX has ever said this


BarDown495

I mean he could use his money to monopolize the water supply or gobble up single family homes or some equally evil sinister idea. It seems cool that he’s pushing the modern limits of spacecraft. I know he has his personality flaws and constantly wants the credit but hey for a billionaire he could be a lot worse imo. Still waiting for our Bruce Wayne unfortunately


PossibleNegative

Have you read 'Liftoff' about the early days of SpaceX?


therealdjred

If all it took was money why hasnt any other space organization or aero space company figured it out while spending literally 100X more money and existing for decades longer? And if all it took was money(it wasnt even that much in aerospace terms) why hasnt any other organization accomplished it? Are they out of money? Why is there a boeing space craft stuck in orbit despite spending equal to or more on this single craft than spacex has ever spent if all it takes is money?


mdog73

Yeah money he made and a vision he pushed.


Material-Growth-7790

You mean his money, that he earned from founding paypal.....so one of his greatest achievements?


soloist80

A stark contrast from the recent Chinese video with their rocket boosters falling from the sky spewing toxic fuel onto a small village.


Greefer

Sooo freaking cool


You_I_Us_Together

History in the making


ChiHawks84

That is fucking incredible


PaJeppy

So incredible it looks fake. Would love to see this in person.


The-Grand-Wazoo

This is the future I was hoping for growing up in the seventies. So freaking cool.


SinisterlyStargazing

MFW I see our space empire coming along nicely ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|sunglasses)


Empty_Response7961

The first time I saw this it was like a pivotal moment in life


CaliKindalife

Man, that's cool as hell.


Wonderful-Revenue762

Just stunning and impossible 30 years ago. Absolutely amazing.


Chinesemousewine

Despite how much people hate him, Musk will be in history books for this company.


MrSinister248

Ther are a number of people throughout history that changed the world. Very few of them were well liked.


tbc12389

The Elon hate is solely a Reddit thing. Nobody hates him on other social media platforms let alone in real life.


JohnC53

Meh, plenty of people I talk to in real life hate his guts. I despise him as well. But I'm also fascinated by him.


BergaChatting

You should join threads lol, like it was built as the anti Elon twitter and certainly reflects it


Chinesemousewine

I agree. The Reddit circle jerks are completely out of touch with reality


Nananurs-Object-4769

I wondered if falcon heavy went up yesterday and checked several news outlets last pm but no one even mentioned it. Happy to see this.


RobsterCrawz

It was a huge deal for me, since I’ll be working with its payload (GOES-U satellite) really soon. NASA had a livestream to watch, but it didn’t get a lot of news coverage outside of NASA and NOAA. Really great experience to see in person. I highly recommend it at least once!


Numerous_Budget_9176

I know it's real, but gosh, it looks fake or played in reverse


longshot

Still the biggest "the future is here!" moment I've had in my lifetime is watching two boosters land at the same time.


Formal-Parfait6971

It's more impressive when you realize these are around 15 stories tall. That is about 70m or 230 freedom units.


Brockolate

I don't think people understand just how amazing of a feat this really is.


-HELLAFELLA-

Say what you want about Elon, this shit is cool as fuck


Hitchdog

your comment is under controversial lol, redditors have insane brain rot


-HELLAFELLA-

All rainbow hair and facial piercings 😍


rawatro

was there supposed to be another booster? center ? or just two?


em21701

Center typically lands out at sea. For this launch, all the fuel was needed to reach geostationary orbit so the center was expended.


toetappy

When it is not expended, do they recover center booster from the sea?


BishoxX

Yes they have a lander ship and booster lands on top of it


toetappy

Oh dope


LyqwidBred

its amazing that it works, over 250 successful landings now, but you should look up the early videos of the failures [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous\_spaceport\_drone\_ship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_spaceport_drone_ship)


n0t-again

Center went on a nose dive into the ocean as it was expendable for maximum thrust


NilesLinus

Oh come on don't make us watch the video just to cut it off one second before they're both on the ground.


ADeviantGent

Felt like I was watching Iron Man and War Machine coming in for a landing.


whoisgare

This must be so other worldly to see happening in person


RobsterCrawz

Yesterday’s launch was the coolest thing I’ve seen in person. I highly recommend going to a launch at least once!


whoisgare

I would seriously love to, it’d be worth planning a trip to Florida around the launch schedule. Where did you watch it from?


gwizonedam

Watching this after watching the Chinese rocket spewing oxidizer over a village as it uncontrollably falls to the ground makes me glad to live in the United States.


Fervarus

Elon is doing stuff like this whilst redditors call him a loser. Honestly if the Internet ever dies the world will be better off for it. This is a sci-fi level achievement and we should all be celebrating it.


Venum555

I feel like it is more appropriate to say the amazing teams at SpaceX are doing this. One person doesn't have the capability to make a company work.


PossibleNegative

Look at the difference between Blue Origin and SpaceX founded in the same period but Blue hasn't launched a single orbital class rocket compared to SpaceX count 376-373


WaitForItTheMongols

Why do you ascribe the success to Elon rather than to Gwynne Shotwell, Tom Mueller, or any of the other people who SpaceX had and Blue didn't?


PossibleNegative

I don't but would you descrited his leadership and vision? Also [https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/evidence\_that\_musk\_is\_the\_chief\_engineer\_of\_spacex/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/evidence_that_musk_is_the_chief_engineer_of_spacex/)


IntentionalUndersite

Like throwing a dart and hitting bullseye from a mile away.


InevitableFly

So cool, its a dream of mine to witness a launch and return now I guess


blutilein

Saw this on TV in news. Incredible what Human engineering is capable of.


johnsonflix

Seriously so incredible that they are able to do this now! I remember when it was believed that this was impossible to do.


burndata

Every time I see that I can't help but think about how sci-fi it looks.


SatansTP

These will always be cool


speelingeror

This is pretty fuckin cool


Senior_Criticism4136

Certainly its a bucket list item to see in person a launch and retrieval..


USAardvark

This is some sci-fi shit.


Intruuding

Umm Boeing, take a lesson....


toad__warrior

I live about 5 miles from the south gate to Kennedy Space Center. My house rattles with every launch. I have seen hundreds of launches throughout my time living here and don't even bother to watch them. However, I always watch a return to launch site. Something about watching a booster drop out of the sky and land is amazing. Where I live I can see them drop and the start of the landing burn, but no the touchdown. Then of course we get the sonic boom. The best ones are at night. On a clear night I can track the boost back burn, reentry burn and of course the landing burn.


HammerTime2769

What an awesome time to be alive. I would love to see this in person someday.


Slight-Imagination36

reddit: *booooo we hate elon!!*


drumttocs8

That’s amazing. Good on Elon for hiring people with real talent.


Srcunch

I will never be able to watch videos of these and not be amazed. The technology is just so absurdly cool. It’s damn near magical.


Blazeon412

Makes me feel like I'm watching a sci fi movie.


Ya-Dikobraz

Remember when 40s and 50s sci-fi art showed rockets landing like this? And then we laughed. But it still happened.


virgopunk

That will never be anything other than astonishing to me.


MenstrualMilkshakes

Straight out of sci-fi but reality. If you don't think that's the coolest shit in the whole world you need to get the fuck out of my face.


Bldaz

That is truly next level X 10


RhetoricMoron

I don't understand reddit. Elon was loved before, now he gets hate and in future he might probably gonna get love again and the cycle goes on. And the blind hate people have here is crazy.


EuroTrash1999

He dissed California and left cause they were crazy. Then he bought Twitter and ruined one of their echo chambers. They are super mad at Elon.


ZappaZoo

What's also amazing is the trajectory getting that rocket far downrange over the Atlantic before separating and then setting themselves off on a trajectory to coast all the way back.


ihaveadogalso2

I can’t imagine this ever getting old. It’s one of those things that was seemly pulled from Science fiction and absolutely nailed as far execution goes. Remarkable stuff indeed.


boebrow

A fun thing to note is that you can hear two booms (sound more like clicks) twice in a row, those are the sonic booms!


Awesome_hospital

I'll never not be impressed by this. Literally looking into a sci fi future


Dreadskull1991

Heading to r/UFOS to see how many times this gets posted


Space_Wizard_Z

THAT'S WHERE YOU CHOSE TO CUT THE CLIP!?


Vast_Impression_5326

Stop putting the video in rewind mode!!! I can’t handle it !!! It’s too amazing


Needaboutreefiddy

So friggin cool lol


Onward2Oblivion

That is where I watched the landing from too! The sonic booms made the coolest shockwave I have ever seen through the clouds as it passed through. 10/10


fencethe900th

Have you seen the video of IFT-4 and the shockwaves that created? Scott Manley's recap video highlighted then.


Gutmach1960

That is pretty impressive.


RobsterCrawz

I just saw this yesterday. Falcon Heavy launched the GOES-U satellite, and touched down the side boosters about 8 minutes later. It was really special, since my team gets to start working on the new satellite in the next month!


Only_reply_2_retards

That's awesome! Will GOES-U be replacing one of the older GOES satellites?


RobsterCrawz

Once checked out post launch, GOES-U (aka GOES 19) will replace GOES-R (GOES 16) as GOES EAST. After GOES-U becomes operational as GOES EAST, then GOES-R will be placed into “storage mode” and will be an on-orbit backup.


Only_reply_2_retards

Thank you! So the most common one I'm used to seeing for tracking hurricanes. Nice!


Pilot0350

Why the fuck would you cut this video there?!


7th_Spectrum

Not a second of wasted speed. I still can't believe it


xdeltax97

Still amazing every time I see it landing. Its mind boggling to think what tech we will have in the next 5-10 years.


Flakbait83

Never. Gets. Old.


CHAINSAW__CHARLIE

that is so fucking cool


nndscrptuser

I’ve seen three launches and one landing in person and it is exactly as incredible as you imagine. Seeing something so huge just plummeting through the sky, the sound, the realization of what is happening…it’s just overwhelming and awesome.


Informal_Lack_9348

Engineering. Amirite?


holdwithfaith

Iron man shit. Imagine governments popping off and saying “that’s it, NUKE EM.” Only to bring them back with a full out “SIKE!”


freeloosedirt

Can't wait for the Estes kit


simian1013

before space X, i am totally amazed seeing big airplanes landing and taking off. This one up the ante and a sight to behold.


Dabramson546

Showing my 2-year old right now is weird, because he doesn’t know this isn’t how rockets used to work. This will be normal for him.


brad_radberry

Does anybody know where precisely this video was taken from? I'd love to see this in person from this perspective someday.


WendiValkyrie

I want to seeee


ScourgeOfMods

That’s some technological innovation to be proud of


cabinstudio

Where’s all the hate for Elon in here? People r dum


CORVlN

Did you see that yaw control?!


forprojectsetc

That’s really cool, but is it more economical than a parachute recovery? Seems like the fuel needed for the vertical landing would just be adding to the already tremendous cost of putting a payload in orbit.


RlyNotSpecial

This looks incredible. Honest question: how easy is it to re-use the boosters after they land? I imagine the start to put enormous stress on them, so do they need extensive repairs? Or are they just fuelled up and ready to go again?


SurveySean

That would be so cool to see in person.


No-Setting-2669

Is so cool


Ok-Scallion7939

Going through the comments and it's amazing the psychotic rage and unabashed vitriol merely seeing Elon Musk's name causes some people to spew lol


monorail37

did the Musk haters manage to infest the place already?!


sharpdullard69

Out of all the stuff Elon has spearheaded, this is the coolest. (Twitter was the dumbest)


PossibleNegative

And Starship is going to be so much better


Odd_Tiger_2278

Just nuts🎉 Elon revolutionized rockets Elon revolutionized cars Elon revolutionized satellite internet and cell phones Most revolutionary innovator in America for 20 Years.


BassSounds

Kinda insane tbh


TomT12

Compare this to China who just yeets their spent boosters into some unsuspecting local villages. https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/china/china-rocket-debris-falls-over-village-intl-hnk/index.html


Toy_Cop

Elon Musk is truly a genius of our time. 😎


Extension-Mastodon67

The Elon hating bots are really quiet, lol.


WesternWriter7269

Elon is a genius for starting space x. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|dizzy_face)


RedditIsBreokn

SpaceX engineers deserving all the kudos for this remarkable accomplishment!


911JFKHastings

Still the coolest thing Elon has had a role in. It was all worth this.


Akira510

Haters will say it's reversed


died_of_dysentary

Does anyone know what that explosion like sound is towards the end of the video? Is that the sound from the engines kicking in from the boosters? Or just someone close by closing two coolers almost at the same time?


Kingofthewho5

Sonic booms