I ain’t gonna lie,,,

THIS!!!

THISSSSS!!!!

Excites me SO MUCH MORE THAN THE DAMNED KABUKI THEATER IN DC.

Dood!!!

DOOOODDDDD!!!   Two successful catches of the booster.  watch the time frame,,, SEVEN MINUTES FROM LAUNCH TO CATCH, and the Starship was still accellerating and climbing when that happened.   THINK ABOUT THAT,,,, Turn arounds in spaces of hours,,, HOURS!! not  months and years,    Even Better,,, a booster can carry far more than just a Starship:  it could carry the means of other endeavors up to low orbit to be collected together in a more economical fashion ‘when all the peices are there’.    This is a HUGE stepping stone to opening up our solar system

GOVERNMENT DID NOT DO THIS!!!!

Proof positive IMO that Government is NOT the answer and more likely an instigator of problems.

Now, I know that SpaceX is trying some new type of tile on Starship, so what happens on re-entry is any laymans guess, and even the Techs and Engineers are crossing fingers to some extent.   So, there is still further to go before ALL of this becomes completely viable, but,,, That launch sequence is getting to the point where its going to be ‘just routine’, like a train leaving a station or a 747 making a milkrun to Europe,,,,

(and I know there are some that are still looking  at those plumes from launch and saying “POLLUTIONS!!!”  ,,,,

Give it a break guys,,,, Liquid Methane, and Liquid Oxygen.    O2+CH4!!!!   Water and carbon dioxide and lots of HEAT are your ‘exhaust’ components.   Those plumes are vaporized water condensing into cloud/fog.   You could breath in them (though it may, at first, have a higher CO2 content than your body would like.  EVEN IF, the mix is off just a bit, running ‘lean’ so to speak, the CO (carbon monoxide) would burn off once it came into contact with the atmo.  Or running rich, would make some interesting nitrogen compounds in the same way.  (say, ammonia, that would decay rather quickly in atmo)  seriously, this is BASIC CHEM 101, highschool level shit,(Correction,,, This should read ‘Rich’ in the first instance, lean in the second.   Apologies,, my excitement made me dyslexic.)

AND IT WORKS.  I even went back to look at some of the Shuttle launches,,,  The launch plumes were much ‘dirtier’ and seemed not so focused as what we are seeing from SpaceX vehicles.(and they used solid propellant boosters along with LOX/??? rocket engines.   The ‘dirt’ was from the solid boosters.) 

Feelin’ a little giddy right now,,, Almost like when I was a wee-tike, running around on my bigwheel, imagining being an astronaut, during the Apollo missions.   I used to look at the moon and wonder,,, That all came to an end when they stopped the Shuttle launches, effectively killing the wonder of my younger-self.   Well, SpaceX just woke that little gremlin back up,,,   I see a future in space,,, Maybe not for ME, but some HUMANS are going to be going places and seeing things we have only pictures of (and not very good ones at that)  

(UPDATED: A Falcon 9 is launching TWO moon landers (unmanned 😦   ) as I was posting this.

sigh,,,,,     To be 50 years younger right now, watching all this develop and DREAMING,,,, realities are made on dreams, and when the realities start creating dreams,,, WONDEROUS THINGS HAPPEN.

Live

LOVE

LEARN

Laugh

LOAD

UPDATE  2:  Starship lost several minutes into flight; “unscheduled rapid dissassembly”,,, LOL   Really nice way to say “she blew the F! up.”   And I will betcha, they learn 10X more from this blow up and the next iteration will be a screamin’ success.   I love reading the naysayers in the comments of the report vids,,,,   My only thoughts when reading them are “He who dares,,,,”   The naysayers would never dare,,,,