SpaceX Starship booster catch

[AGTDenton]

If you didn't watch it live the highlights are below, pretty impressive!

First SpaceX mission I've watched in a while

[Saracen999]

I've yet to see a SpaceX launch, but was present at quite a few Shuttle launches. Probably 6 or 8, -ish. By "present", I mean about as close to the launch site as anyone gets, whiich is several miles. Usually, we were at the water's edge on Canaveral (not the same as Cape Kennedy), which is (or was in those days) a military facility and getting on it was only possible with a pass. It did give unobstructed naked-eye views of the launch site, albeit about 5 or 6 miles from the actual pad. The best public access was probably in the same general area, but on the roadside outside Canaveral, and by 'eck did it get crowded out there. Still a pretty good location to watch from, though.

Even the Shuttle launches, which were tiny compared to the Apollo program's Saturn V vehicles, were impressive as hell, even from those 5 or 6 miles away.

It would be great to see a Space X vehicle land, though. One of the Shuttles launches I watched was the first ever second launch of a Shuttle, i.e. historic in being the first re-use of a spacecraft. Space- landing would (IMHO) be a similar milestone.

[Percy1983]

Its certainly good but what about the elephant in the room, You can launch starship with the crew/equipment but would then need to launch 16 more in quick succession to fuel it for a lunar mission.

[jimbouk]

Its certainly good but what about the elephant in the room, You can launch starship with the crew/equipment but would then need to launch 16 more in quick succession to fuel it for a lunar mission.

That's the plan isn't it? Well not that many, and for Mars. But yeah in space refuelling.

Watched the catch last night from the highlights, thanks. Other half was confused about how the ship even got back to the right place! They need to overlay a picture of a bus for scale or something - it looks like a Thunderbirds model or something with no context from anything around it.

[[GSV]Trig]

It is amazing...

I remember thinking when they grounded the Shuttle fleet that it would be the end of proper space flight, then Elon turned up..
Watching those things land never fails to impress..