And that's what they want you to travel in

jamal collier lol not me! I’ll be cheering from the peanut gallery!

Bet ya Elon loves this animation! Very cool!

@@bill_ruppert Looks like you don't have to just imagine it anymore :D

Ben actually irl the flip did not seem that bad. What an incredible flight.

well , i totally agree but riding any rocket is kinda terrifying in itself isnt it? :D You're basically sitting on a ton of (controlled) explosives.

@@dufzyy Unless your rockets uses SRBs, in which case you’re sitting on a ton of uncontrolled explosives!

@@dufzyy This is true, but at least that doesn't feed into our primal fear of falling. I expect it will always feel to those on board that the rocket ignition and flip manoeuvre has been left too late.

This sounds weird but I would go on that even though I’ll probably be extremely nervous about the landing, but I’ll go on it just to brag about it

@The Spiritus Project. I think this is fundamentally different. Those rockets have to light at the right moment. If they don't then the result is immediately catastrophic, and everyone on board dies. Even in an aircraft, if something doesn't work when it should, there's almost always time to deal with the problem.

So does Elon Musk and me

So do i

@Anzu Wyliei OH FU

@Sfs rocket lab yes

@Sfs rocket lab called:big big fucking rocket

With a refuelling service station, a takeaway bar and driving cyber trucks! :)

Damn. Lol

whose name is on the moon starship?

@@BPJJohn Elon Musk.

@The Spiritus Project. Spacex doesn't need money...Elon Musk is such a successful businessman that he will not need to beg at the public trough. And don't forget, if Biden is allowed to cheat his way into the Presidency, NASA will be set back at least for the next four years. There aren't any votes to buy or steal on the moon, or on Mars.

Nah, just Blue Origin and ULA.

@@porkypiggieboy isn't boeing is the part of ULA?

@@FarhanSyafiqFadhillah Yes, but I think ULA hating SpaceX comes from the Lockheed Martin side.

let's be fair, we all support every space industries

@@YaItxSmoothy not BLUE Origin

propably not first few times tho :P

It will be fun to watch.

Thats because it is... Just 70 years late.

Exactly and that's the problem with it.

@@stuart207 What do you mean?

@@stuart207 How is that a problem chief?

But its REAL!!

While they look like wings, they have no control surfaces that would allow any appreciable lift. They are actually just giant steel airbrakes that allow the ship to pitch, yaw and roll based on how much of each fins surface is presented perpendicular to the angle of attack of the ship.

Don't worry. I got this.

Less than 10 years? By the end of the decade, SpaceX is likely to have Earth to Earth travel and Starship 2.0.

Raptor sounds nothing like Merlin tho, so it wouldnt be accurate

I'm sure no one would mind, as it's a representation, not a wholly accurate scientific pursuit :)

Every astronaut since the beginning of space flight has felt that terror upon re-entry. It goes with the territory. Even liftoffs are terrifying. You are sitting on a controlled explosion. Fun, huh?

Fun fact, the text written in aurebesh just before he lands (and the ship falls over) is saying "Of Course I still Love you" translated to English for the landing area.

That would seem a lot less chaotic. Doing all that crazy maneuvering so close to the ground looks scary. The way Falcon 9 lands just looks a lot more dignified.

Elon Musk said that is what will happen. Not big enough moment/not fast enough with just rear wings retracting. Engines will do all the heavy lifting (pun intended) to get it upright. EDIT: Until hot gas thrusters. Then engines will do less

Because the engines that are going to pitch the rocket up

I _think_ that's something that might change over the evolution of the rocket, but in the short term, they're reliant on the vectored thrust from the main engines to rotate the craft upright... which means lighting the engines while still horizontal. But I think longer term, the reaction control thrusters will be powerful enough to provide the same rotation... if so, we'd presumably see the pitch-up occurring slightly earlier, and the Raptors lighting partway through the maneuver instead of before it.

@@simongeard4824 Thing is, folding in the rear flaps would start the rotation, not requiring engine thrust vectoring or an "over rotation", the pendulum problem.

Hot-gas thrusters, actually. But yes, I've heard the same... the Raptor-powered swoop is currently necessary because the existing cold-gas thrusters don't have the power to rotate the rocket quickly enough - but later it will be using more powerful methalox-fueled hot-gas thrusters for maneuvering, including rotating for landing.

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Fair enough...

Yeah, proof is in the pudding for sure. To tell you the truth even if starship doesn't work, super heavy with a single use upper stage still gives a huge capability. It would then be more inline with what new Glenn will be doing.

I think Starship will be *capable* of hovering, unlike Falcon... but it's unlikely to actually do so, because hovering is a waste of fuel compared to the suicide burn.

@@simongeard4824 mmmmmm. Very cool if starship will be hover capable. Maybe with humans on board they will want to take it safe and ditch the suicide burn.

@@santnox7559 Given that the suicide burn is more efficient and that SpaceX have been making it look routine for years now, why would they stop? They've not had any failures in that stage of landing since the early days...

ah no, but starship is just so good and if there is a disaster, it would be really rare, like an soyuz failure

and yeah they will only put astronautsbin it when its 100% reliable

Space X won't fly the crewed passengers until they have made starship super reliable

That would slow the spacecraft down right? correct me if i am wrong but that's what i think would happen

It would depend where it’s landing and when that would determine retrograde or prograde earth spin

Seems to make only margin difference. The speed of Earths rotation at the equator is 480 m/s ; the speed of starship from low earth orbit is about 8 km/s, and potentially much faster from further out.