Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico
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#2Seeing it seemingly hover right over the water and then slowly tip over was amazing!
Go SpaceX! Go Starship!
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#3The rate of descent is absolutely astonishing, 8km -> 1km in 20 seconds, then just hovers above the water. Absolutely incredible work by the SpaceX team.
Living in central Florida I cannot wait for the new launch facility to come online. We're going to have lines of spectators into the space coast like we did for the shuttle.
If any of you are heading to Disney World you should stop by the NASA Kennedy Visitor Complex, it is so well done and not that expensive (it takes less time than 1 line at Disney world to get to :) ). It has the original launch control room for Apollo that you can tour, a Saturn V rocket that is laid horizontally and you can walk under, the crew module for the moon landing. My favorite part is the Atlantis shuttle suspended from the ceiling, they left it in its "raw" landed format with scorch marks and tiles, it looks absolutely amazing.
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#4That was breathtaking! Now just hoping we get even more spectacular views of Starship's reentry plasma than last time. Everything about this vehicle screams "sci-fi future".
DAAAAMN looks like Starship made it! This truly fit their slogan of "Excitement guaranteed", that Starship reentry was so thrilling, falling apart, seeing the fins disintegrating, yet at the end they still moved and flipped!
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#5That was incredible!
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#6Incredible! Catching the booster next JIRA ticket.
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#8The rate of descent is absolutely astonishing, 8km -> 1km in 20 seconds, then just hovers above the water. Absolutely incredible work by the SpaceX team. Living in central Florida I cannot wait for the new launch facility to come online. We're going to have lines of spectators into the space coast like we did for the shuttle. If any of you are heading to Disney World you should stop by the NASA Kennedy Visitor Comple…
Yeah it’s hard to comprehend how powerful those engines are. The booster is relatively light without all the propellant and starship when it’s attempting to land, but it’s still 30 stories tall and I’m assuming it weighs dozens of tons.
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#10Wait, did it land or not? Retrieved or sunk? Couldn’t tell from the video.