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SpaceX Launches Starship Flight Test (LIVESTREAM) April 20, 2023. Launch window opens at 8:30am CT.
SpaceX ^ | 04/20/2023 | Self

Posted on 04/20/2023 5:32:06 AM PDT by know.your.why

Heeere we goooo. Fingers toes and eyes crossed for a successful test flight of the 33-Raptor engine Superheavy booster and Starship first time into space. Both vehicles are planned to splash down...the booster in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship off of Hawaii.


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To: PIF

Spinning, big fail???


41 posted on 04/20/2023 6:36:40 AM PDT by Ledgerfreedom
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To: know.your.why

rocket in spin not good


42 posted on 04/20/2023 6:37:10 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Doesnt look good


43 posted on 04/20/2023 6:37:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Ledgerfreedom

No it has passed several milestones all good reach Max Q


44 posted on 04/20/2023 6:38:14 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

And that’s why I’d never get on this thing without an abort mode.


45 posted on 04/20/2023 6:38:40 AM PDT by Ledgerfreedom
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To: Lazamataz

Rapid, non-nominal disassembly… as they call it.


46 posted on 04/20/2023 6:40:55 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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To: know.your.why

What an absolutely pathetic demonstration of gaslighting as the vehicle exploded.

It was clear the panel of 3 idiots were instructed to maintain smiles through any negative event.

I’m now more anti-Musk than ever. Just another government agency (’government affiliated’). Perhaps worse.


47 posted on 04/20/2023 6:41:30 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Ledgerfreedom
SpaceX is calling this a success because it cleared the tower and the first stage separated as planned. Looks like the second state never separated, causing Starship to spin out of control and fall into the ocean.

This is why they call them test flights. I'm sure they will try again and will eventually get it correct.

48 posted on 04/20/2023 6:42:18 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,016,040 Truth | 87,429,920 Twitter)
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To: PIF

Well, Starship go boom. Hope they learned a heck of a lot from it!


49 posted on 04/20/2023 6:42:23 AM PDT by Old Student (As I watch the balkanization of our nation I realize that Robert A. Heinlein was a prophet. )
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To: Old Student

Did it blow up!?


50 posted on 04/20/2023 6:43:42 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Das dicke Ende kommt noc!)
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To: Lazamataz

Launch pad in intact which is huge, reached Max Q (max stress) also huge.


51 posted on 04/20/2023 6:43:43 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: know.your.why

That was exciting to watch.


52 posted on 04/20/2023 6:44:06 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Lazamataz

The SpaceX commentators can sugarcoat it all they want, it was a fail.
They did get good data, I’m sure, but it was disappointing.
Gotta break a few eggs to make that omelet…

Still historic!


53 posted on 04/20/2023 6:44:30 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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To: PIF

That’s like saying “The plane blew up but the runways is fine.”


54 posted on 04/20/2023 6:44:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: logi_cal869

It was a TEST!! Which it passed handily!


55 posted on 04/20/2023 6:45:17 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Lazamataz

Well, no one died.


56 posted on 04/20/2023 6:45:21 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: know.your.why
"Development" (i.e., catastrophic vehicle failure).

Can you see the strings pulling on their cheeks? You could certainly hear it. /s


57 posted on 04/20/2023 6:45:31 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: telescope115

Yay.... it blew up....such a success!!!!!

Clown World!


58 posted on 04/20/2023 6:46:09 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcome to The Biden Clown Show.)
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To: PIF

Yeah, they had a RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly) after the Starship failed to separate.

They did say if they got it off the pad, it’d be considered a success. In their pre-launch commentary, they kept saying the phrase “if we get that far”. At least they had a reasonable expectation of what might happen.

I have a feeling that if the same thing was done at NASA, heads would roll.

And....the thing made it well past the point that the Soviet N-1 ever did.


59 posted on 04/20/2023 6:46:15 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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To: Lazamataz
That’s like saying “The plane blew up but the runways is fine.”

The cherry bomb that I didn't quite get to throw blew up real nice, and I still have 3 fingers!

60 posted on 04/20/2023 6:46:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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