Ho-lee muther!  They not only got super heavy to the location desired, they captured its soft landing into the ocean!   Next up with IFT5 - they'll try to catch it in the chopsticks!

Boeing is an over bloated crap fest. Not the same one I knew from the 60’s and 70’s. They over run project milestones, are upping the cost of below par work that they pass on to us, and have a management team that seems to be powered by a clueless society of inept leaders only interested in the Benjamins.

We’ve been lucky so far that nobody has parishes in a catastrophic event. 

 JrzyTmata wrote:
If you're unlucky enough to be one of my kids, you'd know my opinions about the tremendous luck I associate with being born at just about the perfect time, in the right place, in history...the 60s... after the wars (too young for Vietnam) ... before the internet...with the greatest popular music explosion... and jet travel... and live TV from across the planet...  and then the arrival of the internet.... all with an appreciation that what just happened in space is an amazing accomplishment showcasing the utter brilliance of thousand upon thousand of humans, that those born a bit later take for granted. 

WHEW!!

 miamizsun wrote:

Seems to be some issues...

and the docking is coming up

starliner will boink in an hour or so  

LIVE:

Fullstack: SpaceX Stacks Ship 29 on Booster 11

went down a bit of a rabbit hole on this one.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
hard to imagine the challenges and the engineering to deal with them
continental and/or global dust dtorms, high winds and temp extremes, etc.

ok, I'm not really the let's go to Mars fan-boy, but a comment I read recently about the Valles Marineris just needing a roof to create the perfect geo-engineering scenario made me think, yeah, actually, I could imagine that.

Here's an ESA video of just part of it. a smaller canyon to the north.

 GeneP59 wrote:
seeing the plasma field develop in real time was amazing. 

Took off. Flew. Separated.
Starship flew into space.
Main booster didn’t slow down for soft landing crashing at 600mph. 
Starship Opened the pez door.
Reentered atmosphere and burned up.

Success on getting up there.
Return needs major work.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

drone zome?
or
space station?

lawd, I hope they play different music on the flight to Mars.

 Beaker wrote:

yes, thanks for the heads up
everyday astronaut seems to be the only legit yt outlet that i've seen

t -4

SpaceX -LIVE NOW

 miamizsun wrote:
Spacex stopped broadcasting live on Youtube quite a while ago.
Careful.  There's actual fake Youtube channels claiming to be SpaceX. 
This is a fake SpaceX channel  note the Elon mention and QR code nonsense

SpaceX only broadcasts live on X.
——————

Official SpaceX link to live broadcast


Real Youtube channels carrying Starship commentary:

Everyday Astronaut

NASASpaceflight  aka NSF

Lab Padre

X live: Ellie in Space

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

i think it is approximately 8:24 am-ish cst

edit: watching via youtube on spacex channel