Starship's 10th Flight Test imminent [complete]
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Avid Reading Horse
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Let's do this! WOOOOO!
Unknown Soldier
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Fuck those metal plates TBH just exile them into space
Great launch so far today wew
Great launch so far today wew
Jinzo Prime
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It did the flip!!
It's surreal seeing a belly-flopping metal tube just turn around and hover, crazy shit!
It's surreal seeing a belly-flopping metal tube just turn around and hover, crazy shit!
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Reizo Ryuu
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that was fully sick, hour went by like minutes.
Avid Reading Horse
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Roll Fizzlebeef
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the amount of punishement and still nailing the spash down, right where they wanted. insane
Unknown Soldier
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Nailed the landing. Pretty good for a rocket where they purposely removed some of the thermal tiles to see if what kind of damage it would take
This mission was completely successful with all objective fulfilled! Next launch should be soon!
This mission was completely successful with all objective fulfilled! Next launch should be soon!
Tams
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Fantastic. 
It's just incredible that such engineering is possible.
The absolute glee the media had here in the UK at the previous failures was very grating, especially when we've just axed what little space programme we had.
Also, Arse Technica comments section are going to be having a meltdown.
It's just incredible that such engineering is possible.
The absolute glee the media had here in the UK at the previous failures was very grating, especially when we've just axed what little space programme we had.
Also, Arse Technica comments section are going to be having a meltdown.
LokusAbriss
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This stuff is awesome. So sad, that the majority doesn't care about these advancements or even look down on it.
We could be so much further already. We could turn our worldwide military budget into space exploration and populating our solar system. We could atleast put backups of the most important data and plant seeds on another planet or the moon, in case of a huge catastrophy. But no, humanity will probably go extinct, after some huge asteroid will hit us.
We could be so much further already. We could turn our worldwide military budget into space exploration and populating our solar system. We could atleast put backups of the most important data and plant seeds on another planet or the moon, in case of a huge catastrophy. But no, humanity will probably go extinct, after some huge asteroid will hit us.
calistan
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Impressive! It's only a few years since it was a thing that looked like a grain silo with an engine on the bottom and it flew for 500 ft. Now it seems almost inevitable that it's going to work and they'll have a gigantic reusable rocket ship capable of reaching Mars. That's a crazy rate of progress.
Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
One of the better things coming from the US. A pinnacle of technology.
Trogdor1123
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It looked like that to me as well. It sounded as if that was expected.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
I think they were just happy it achieved all goals. Launch, payload release and splashdown. It was not built for re-use.
Trogdor1123
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Could be, they intentionally were "tough" on this one they said.