Starship Prototype Ship 20 Stacked on Super Heavy

[Music] propulsion continues to be normal pressure looks good [Music] yikes you bet we don't need any more of these good morning texas tank watchers coming at you live from starbase down in boca chica texas the sun is about to rise down that way and we're hoping this morning it's not the only thing that rises you can see right there starship s 20. newly tiled overnight workers on that until about 4 a.m local time putting tiles up in that big missing section but let me know if you can hear and see this morning john galloway for nasa's space flight here needs some audio there as well yep i'm getting tons of five by fives in chat so we are here early this morning to share with you what hopefully may be the first ever stacking of a starship on top of the super heavy booster you can see both of those things on the screen this morning lifts and workers already up and atom here so we are going to be coming at you live like we said and the nasa space flight team doing our normal live commentary hopefully we get to see this thing go let's introduce who else is in the studio here with me this morning starting up at the top of the list chris gebhardt how are you doing this morning oh i am here like everyone else hoping to see a starship stacked by the end of today excellent y'all chris gebhardt assistant managing editor for nasa space flight you've heard his voice on our streams quite frequently also back in the studio we have steve marr steve you awake i am awake haven't been awake for long and i can report that the sun is officially up here on the space coast so it shan't be long before it rises over there in boca chica good deal steve's a photographer commentator you hear his voice on the stream as well quite frequently but he will be joining us also back in the studio michael baylor how you doing this morning uh it is let's see 4 38 a.m i've been up since 3. so i'm a little bit tired but i'm very excited to see a starship get stacked on a super heavy it's almost like christmas morning right you sort of can't sleep you can't get to sleep the night before then you wake up and it's like time to open the presents but it's spacex that's going to do all the well i guess not really unwrapping here because they were putting the tiles on at least anyways they're the parents like who like and santa who you know put the toys together so the kids have to wake up to in the morning working overnight to finalize the tiles on the some assembly required starship here huh yes exactly i think it came with batteries i wonder if it should have batteries on it somewhere shouldn't it right anyways i mean i think starships come with batteries right yeah um also folks do not forget out in the field rolling out before the sun came up we've got boca chicago that shouldn't surprise you bokeh chicago before the sun rises you don't get shots of the sun rising unless you beat it in the morning and so mary has been out there since super early at boca cheeky gal over on twitter make sure you toss her a follow if you want the fastest news and photos and stuff like that coming out of boca chica she is the original starship photographer out there and this is her camera run right now i believe yep this is her camera right now and has a fantastic shot of s20 there on the well almost on the pad on the staging area i guess also out in the field this morning jack byer has also won [Laughter] welp i hadn't seen that preview yet and uh yeah well apparently jack has a camera as well that he's pointed at the base of yeah that will definitely be a great shot to see the first motion of this thing this morning you can even see where it's a bolted like the the actual plates are on the hard points there a little gap in the tiles down low and you can see some little uh spots where the ship is put in position now i think that's part of transport stand we're saying not actually bolts through the side of the starship but how about that y'all also spacex you missed a couple tiles there's two right there go ahead michael ah look you expect perfection okay well again folks like we normally do we're going to be doing this live all through the event we cannot unfortunately tell you exactly what's kind what time it's going to happen um in the past we've seen them do early early morning lifts we know out there on the beach in south texas right on the gulf of mexico the winds tend to be much lower in the morning and according to elon straight from the horse's mouth yesterday i hope he doesn't mind be calling him a horse um anyways straight from elon yesterday he said that they had to abort the lift because it was too windy they could not go for the lift due to the wind so early morning winds tend to be a little bit lower and we're hoping this morning that we start to see some daylight there on the bottom of starship so elon if you don't like the whole horse thing i don't know i grew up in south texas that's what my dad used to say my dms are open i'll trade you like a tour or something like that for stopping saying that um anyways shall we start going through i mean i know we already have super chats coming in i know there's questions coming in as well yeah i'm uh looking through the queue here go ahead look no the sunrise is there really oh man yeah so getting ready to uh get a little bit more light there but not too much light with that cloud bubbling up over the gulf let's start going through uh yeah let's do some questions and stuff yeah and remember uh if you have a question uh hit the at nasa space flight tag there and we have a nifty little cue that michael built that we will show that to us and we can get those questions answered uh i'm going to start right here with marcus gruber saying on elon's picture of s20s raptors it seems as if it had no landing legs what is the reason for that yeah we did notice that yesterday why do we think there's no landing legs on uh on the ship right now yeah it could so it could be it could be a couple of things um it could just be that they didn't need them on uh to roll out and get mated for the fit check to the super heavy booster um and that they could be added later on in the flows as they head through the rest of their test campaigns it also could be a factor that this ship is not currently designated to return to actually land on land it will simulate the landing it will it will you know if it survives if the launch is successful and the orbit is successful and re-entry is successful it will emulate the landing and what it would do but it will be doing so about a hundred kilometers north of hawaii um out over the open pacific ocean so there is no there might not be a need for landing lakes for this particular flight so could be either one of those options right now right and uh let's see well i'm not sure how to say this name mccrease uh do you know what what the wind speed is at the moment i know over on starbase live that was uh a big question and we had the little ticker up at the top and last i saw it was like it was only like three knots but keep in mind that uh that's a reading that's coming from port isabel is that right yeah it's coming from a it's coming from a few miles away it's not actually at starbase it's either at port isabella or brownsville i i forget which one it is but it's one of those yeah yeah and if you don't know what knots are i don't either but i mean i know how they i know where knots came from where they used to drag the rope behind the boat with the knots on it and uh they measured how many how many of the knots on the rope we're up above the water but knots and miles per hour are about the same and then yeah yeah yeah it's so i think if it's i don't know if it's like 10 knots it's actually like 11 miles per hour or something like that yeah let's take a look it's um one knot is 1.15 miles per hour so there you go after 10 yeah you're one ahead yeah yeah so if when you see knots if you're familiar with miles per hour i mean it's almost one to one so there you go and and that's actually a pretty good wind speed uh and jack had reported earlier that it was not as windy as yesterday look on jack's camera real quick there there are workers seemingly inspecting the connection points on the bottom see that i see that look at that huh i think it's a good sign that's a good sign and it looks like there are bolts there it bolts below the lip of starship though oh that's true yeah i i wonder if those are like little clamps that stick up to it but it's not actually like that's just connecting to the transport stand or if those actually go with starship i am like squinting down to 2010 trying to see if any pictures are moving but look at them all working around the base of starship ones on the flaps over there you know really with a hammer or something i don't know what is he smacking on something huh all of this is good signs though like this is uh nice to see as opposed to being completely empty and and i believe the hammering is called the fine adjustment mechanism right he's got the old mark ii persuader out there and he's yeah exactly robert he was doing something anyways all good signs you want to see workers down there they're doing inspections they're looking at the base of starship so i like it uh all right let's uh let's head on over here to the super chats and i think i see some questions in there uh desmo blue fire uh spacex is keeping us all busy question is starship better than shuttle and shuttle has come up already in the first what 15 minutes you mark that on your bingo cards uh does it count for the bingo card if i or chris b are not the ones to reference it though well you know we'll have to account uh well it's early excuse me i i've only had like two sips of coffee so far um uh is it better than shuttle i mean if it lives up to its expectation yeah i mean it's already cheaper um it can bring more to low earth orbit at 100 metric tons than the shuttle could the shuttle um yeah the shuttle was it was less than that um its full reusability is is definitely an advancement and an improvement over everything i mean is it better like yeah and i would certainly hope it would be considering the shuttle was developed in the 1970s i i would hope we weren't just replicating it so yeah i would definitely hope it would be and yeah if it can if it can do everything they want it to do i mean heck even if it can do half of what it can do it's still it would still be an improvement but yeah yeah and and the fact that there's going to be all these all these different versions of it i think that's uh oh yeah pretty good feature you know and i mean they're already talking about i mean not just like the cargo and crew variants but then like the dual cargo crew variant um as well the lunar variant and then they're talking about uh what did elon say earlier like uh earlier earlier in july that they're looking at deep space versions of starship that would never return to earth they would just be out there permanently in the solar system somewhere potentially using them as um as the probes themselves instead of building a probe to then launch on a starship that and the starship might need to take it all the way to one of the outer planets if that's going to be a an orbit insertion let's say you know why not just have starship be the probe and save even more money so like yeah there's so much use for this um and yeah more than just a mars transport vehicle yeah yeah yeah and you know um you mentioned orbital insertion uh it reminds me that when i was watching the chat over on starbase live one of the questions that was uh coming up a lot it might have just been one person asking it over and over i'm not sure but um is is starship gonna be able to do an aero capture on uh that have an atmosphere obviously you can't do it if there's no atmosphere but yeah what do you think you think they could instead of using fuel to to grab an orbit around mars or something they could just dip into the atmosphere a little bit they certainly could i mean and depending on how far you would dip down would depend on how much of a heat shield you need yeah um but if you're not trying to necessarily land i mean if the if the vessel is not dipping down far enough into the atmosphere where the sp in relation to its speed you know then it might not need a heat shield if it does need a heat shield they could still put it on but yeah arrow arrow capturing would would be something that it that it would be capable of doing yeah since it's an atmospheric entry vehicle yeah right very cool uh what was there was a mars probe of some kind uh in the last couple years that that did that right that did a uh aero capture did an arrow capture yeah um of course i put you on the spot i can't remember well so there have been so there have been missions that that use their breaking thrusters to to enter highly highly elongated any any an elliptical orbits of mars and then they dip down into the atmosphere to then lower um uh to then to then lower their apogee around mars um uh epo aries um to lower their apo aries points so um i believe the one you're thinking of is maven maven actually dipped down into mars atmosphere as part of its mission but also as a way to help lower the the apo areas of its orbit gotcha all right very cool uh let's see i see a familiar name musical wolves over here says uh did more heat tiles get installed overnight so s20 no longer looks like an oreo that definitely appears to be what happened doesn't it yeah and i believe dos is working on a time lapse of said installation ah yes i pulled all the files for uh installing the tps system and i literally am right now watching workers work on the bottom hey and uh time lapsing it's like seven hours of footage as they were working on that tps last night so it's cool you see them like the the lift is going back and forth and slowly but surely the tiles get filled in it's it's really cool video uh hawking ramsland is saying uh thanks for getting up early uh we don't mind at all uh thank you for being here uh shan l scott uh your intro music is my happy song let's go ship 20. yes it is i love the intro i'll be honest and you should probably all know that when it's playing we're all usually usually sitting here behind the scenes whistling it or humming it or or something as it's playing yep right uh sid tovi throwing a little bit for the nsf coffee fund we appreciate that uh and oliver saying good morning everyone currently watching from work as a nice podcast let's have a successful stack today yes that's what we're all hoping for and nice for you to join us from work yeah i'm curious how many people do that i know it might be difficult to type into chat but we hear quite often that people uh sometimes just put the audio on and listen to what's going on and then when we're like oh there it goes that's when you pop into the video i'm i'm curious how many of you actually listen to a sort of podcast mode instead of having the video up type that in the chat real quick we'll keep going steven sorry yeah yeah no problem i've done that myself i've talked about that before uh yeah me too going down the road yeah going down the road uh oh i see look at that a bunch of people saying they do that all right no kidding podcast mode go uh dave d do you get extra or do you get floor mats with starships or is that extra oh well i think the real question is how many cup holders does it have right yeah that's the most important part yeah uh go ahead look at this michael real quick if we pull one of the beach angles the big lift is up near the top but it seems to be coming down so you can see that big white boom of the lift on the back side it looked like it was up near the attach points but it does seem to be retracting right now so maybe another good sign the workers working at the bottom the lift visiting the top but not spending too much time there yeah maybe all this is good yeah maybe just double checking that everything's hooked up you know nothing got moved around overnight all right uh paul dimitri uh good morning guys here's the coffee i can't wait to see starship fully stacked yep that's what we're all here for can't wait to see it and we're getting some getting a lot more sunlight here coming in uh yeah it looks beautiful that like sort of cotton candy sky behind it it's awesome uh invisible something something um will they automate okay it's like kink jail i think maybe i'm sorry you didn't have to stop to pronounce it sorry will they automate uh mating stacking process or at least do they have ideas uh how to make it less weather dependent that is a good question um that is a good question um i'm not i i don't think it would ever not be weather dependent so i like how you said less weather dependent um because there are certainly things that that like if people need to be out there for you know you can't be out there in a lightning storm obviously um but you know wind is always sort of going to be a constraint because of how big these things are and you don't want them you don't want them catching momentum uh in in in the wind if you can help it but you know i i think that's about as far into the answer as we can realistically go right now because a big question about how this process is going to evolve is you know is the catch arm system going to serve double duty as a stacking system because if it's meant to be automated after it catches i mean it has to be right to catch the booster but if it's also then meant to swing over on its own and sort of ai intelligently put the booster and rotate the booster and get the boosters properly situated over the launch mount again then then my then the extension of that to me is well then why can't it just also stack them to begin with right by picking them up off the ground and maybe and this is the reason i don't want to go further into the answer is because maybe that changes how weather dependent the system is maybe that makes it more stable in a way where you could do the operations in higher wind limits or something like that but until underneath that so yesterday elon elon did tweet yesterday that once the tower was the thing doing the the lifting that winds would be less of a concern not well then there you go so exactly that so well there you go see we were on air all day yesterday thank you no worries yeah no worries uh all right uh let's see harold coming in with 50 euros super chat that is very generous of you thank you very much harold uh crowdfunding pledged to catch s20 at kauai and refurbished with danger cam attached for in-flight nsf coverage for future launches yeah yeah let's you think spacex would allow us to just attach danger cam right on the side of starship oh that oh boy man if there's one person that's at spacex who's listening and you know who you are don't panic not gonna happen don't worry we need like a frog cam like a camera in a it looks like a frog and it could attach to the side maybe maybe a bat i don't know we've seen animals hitch a ride sort of on the way to space before yeah awesome ryan ryan quali says i just want to say thank you for everything the coverage you guys provide inspired me to become an aerospace engineer wow and now i'm going into my second year of college thank you so so much that is awesome ryan that's fantastic man yeah uh pete laurie says i hope we see history in the making today thanks to everyone at nsf for bringing this to us yeah it's our pleasure um i have a feeling we'd probably just be watching it anyway well that is true we were watching the starbase live cameras for a long time before we actually made them all public so uh we do have a history of watching what's going on it's true yeah uh kate b i uh look at that look at that oh look at it it's up wow yeah yes so the workers getting there right everyone on podcast mode come look come look yeah unless you're driving wow yes unless you're driving don't do that but oh my gosh it's up yeah look at that the workers down there weren't just whistling dixie they were actually preparing that to lift off and you can see multiple folks down there on tag lines those lines they usually sort of keep a keep a handle on it but it has cleared the transport stand which doesn't take much it's like a foot but hopefully this is an indication it's on its way up you can actually see we're going rotating on both the camera views yeah i'm wondering if uh if that's just like a natural rotation or i see a tagline just off camera to the right i wonder if they're uh actively rotating it or if it's just like a natural yeah it's going look at that oh yeah they're doing this tagline closer to the camera too oh wow the world stops when starship takes off oh my god really does all right well um i'm gonna continue here so michael we never mind when you butt in because it's always good news so just oh my gosh [Laughter] interrupt me anytime kate b said i i had my breakfast hours ago in london hope you all are having a great breakfast today you'll need the energy awesome yeah and i'm going to say it out loud real quick michael i'm going to leave mars cam on the sunrise shot because it's got star it's got starship lifting off but the sun is coming up behind the clouds as well so i'm just going to leave that wide like that then we've got highway i'm checking all the cameras right now very cool yeah all right mr turtle saying have you have any of you read the book red mars they built a space elevator on mars because lower tensile strength uh thoughts on space elevators yeah i'm the only elevator i'm interested in right now yeah yeah i'm interested in the big crane lifting starship right now um y'all i think we're gonna do a little bit of a pause on some of the super chats and stuff like this because the starship is going up so i think look at this look at the background there's actually people in the background on is that a container wall or something yeah trying to figure out what they're standing on back there some serious telephoto compression probably but uh folks they're sort of observing in the back there's some stairs going up to it i guess i don't i don't know if i have the context to identify what that is it's not pad b because you can see pad being mary's shot with the thrust rams on it the installer viewing platform oh wait is that that is that the base of uh is that the base of uh oh no no no no no no no no no no no that's also not the same the angles are not the same i'm trying to get some context of what that is but i don't know anybody have any ideas where those people are watching from back there i was kind of thinking maybe like the the wall but i don't think the angle's right i'm not 100 sure where jack is in relation but looking at both views i think i can kind of figure it out he's kind of off yeah jack is significantly there you go jack is significantly to the left there i i still don't know what that is i have no idea yeah i'm gonna try to look at the top of the control room at the suborbital pad i think ah that would explain why there's stairs going to the top okay what a shot though i think there's some serious uh telephoto compression going on there but thank you michael for for widening that up for a second that's just can we put a camera there right yeah everywhere basically can we put cameras anywhere yeah i'm trying to look up aerial photos to see if i can so it's it's interesting because the taglines aren't really out to the side right now they're sort of all going straight down they don't look like they're on a lot of tension that i see one or two maybe they're going over the side but a couple are just hanging straight down if i'm seeing that correctly again slow and steady wins the race here crane operators got the load on the boom actually making sure that everything's good you don't just okay let's go run with it um making sure that everything is good here yeah it's it's not moving too much this is uh this is boating well ah ah ah ah reference what is the jack is the the the the yellow crane is moving in both of the frames so you can get the reference point of where he's shooting yeah that is so significantly off to the left yeah yeah okay yep no kidding again y'all if you're just joining us you can see on both the cameras that ship 20 has lifted off the crane assisted takeoff early this morning right it looks like it started going up right around 7 a.m and they're sort of holding right now again making sure everything's good crane operator making sure it's good make sure everything's clear on the pad and stuff like that uh you've got a lift a sort of a spotter lift in the upper left hand corner there you can see it sort of hovering over the back side and that's one of the big lifts as well that's not a small lift just going to the table that lift is going to have to go all the way up to the top of the booster because the destination for the ship as far as elon has said anybody sent anything is the top of booster 4 there that's already on the op hey also you can really see here in mary's shot they painted those rusty legs of the olp those have been there for a year or something and they've painted them a nice uh gray again spacex very much not just making it work but making sure that it looks nice too also hey that's gonna protect the uh or the launch pillars or whatever we were calling those things from the salt air out there yeah yeah they've got another lift going up too yeah look at the lighting from this angle oh i just chef's kiss in case the sound didn't come through look at that there's actually the the ratcheting mechanism it's not a come along hey crane operators or somebody i say a tweet about those things but uh those are like a ratcheting mechanism that they'll use to i guess gain control of it what could they possibly attach it to up there really good question i wonder if there's something on the sides of the booster we shall see what the plan is i mean lifts are going up to the side of the booster now so this is probably how they're going gonna do it they just have to go up in those uh ah das what are they called again you told me yesterday ah ops aerial work platforms aerial wps awp see we need to start the list of the starship acronym list which would infuriate elon if we did because he doesn't like acronyms but yeah they're they're aerial work platforms and the big one they have there at starbase actually goes up to 300 feet which is interesting because 300 feet is very close to the top of the booster right now between the over launch platform the mount and the booster itself uh that thing is going to be way up near the top do you know what we're gonna get from the angle as it goes higher what's that engines oh yes the raptor facts yes remember there's uh six engines on the bottom of ship 20 here there are three of the big nozzled uh raptor vacuum engines the arvax and then three of the sea level optimized raptors that is going to be the higher that goes the more we're going to get that angle but look at this jack and mary with the tag team out there mary's got the wide shot jack's got the zoomed shot i don't know i don't know if they've got comms right now but if you all can hear us these are the fantastic views thank you so much for rolling out so early so we can get these that's maybe that's a wind speed indicator you see a little tag on there yeah yeah and it's really not blowing too hard yeah i'm joking i don't think that that's actually what it's for but well right but yeah it can be used as such yeah look at this yeah i stopped working on the time lapse by the way yeah oh i i would have too i wonder why those two tiles aren't there like it ran out ran the tiles weren't on there because uh they needed more and they were arriving so massive shout out to the workers who rolled out until four a.m they were installing tiles until 4am last night and now you have the uh fully tiled starship when it rolled out yesterday it was sort of like the death star right it was like missing some pieces not fully ready doing its best columbia impression is how we freeze it around here good sir look there you go that's star wars i'm trying to get into a fully operational yeah you know anyways no no no no no man i love it i love it so it's just now cleared the bottom of the orbital launch mount so the table that the super heavy goes on top to the booster remember starship has a two part system it's got the super heavy booster that gets it up and go up out of the atmosphere gets it on its way and then the starship itself gets all the way up to orbital velocity both intended to be fully reusable and it's just cleared where the booster needed to go we're just getting the first sight at the very top of the frame there there they are max look at that there they are look at it wow ah there they go out of frame man oh okay i can't wait to get them back i better check in on the other cameras and make sure everything else is set correctly i'm supposed to be paying attention to that i'm distracted y'all all right look at look just just just just take a minute to look at that michael 20 with all of its tiles most of its tiles getting getting lifted to the super heavy booster on real and there are the route there are the three raptor vacs installed yeah oh my gosh michael if you've got stable feed check highway real quick just briefly we hard to beat these views but uh and their engines of course now i know we're about to see those engines but look at starship uh with the crane there in the foreground and the tower with the sun rising behind it that is gorgeous i'm gonna let that go completely off ram before i touch that camera sorry let's go back to those engines i i was just checking cameras in what a time lapse that shot's gonna be oh the nose the nose is just about at the same level as the top of super heavy yep i'm actually gonna get that one over on starbase live so sometimes we show cameras that we're not using here on starbase live and i think that's a good candidate it does look like they're still holding on to those tag lines that are sort of closer to the camera yeah just kind of maintaining making sure it doesn't start to rotate too much and look the lift's all the way up near the top of the booster now yep yep those massive aerial work platforms get carried in position yeah spotters on all angles too look at that oh you can see it from there yeah there's three or is there a fourth one on the other side i you see three from this angle i i think there's a total of four i'm not sure on the the angle of that one in the background if we were sort of seeing it double there yeah but all hands on deck it looks like they've rolled all their aerial access out to the pad to assist in the operation this morning look at that wow oh wow oh it's so cool hey thanks everybody for watching with us getting up early or or staying up late depending on what part of the world that you're in um if this is your first time here hey make sure you uh subscribe so you can find your way back there's a lot of other really awesome things to come that we're going to bring to you live from boca chica um hey feel free to hit that like button it helps us out helps put us up a little higher on the youtube algorithm and whatever whatever yeah yeah i was going to say there are 20 thank you to the 28 000 of you who are watching but yeah please hit that like button for us if you can uh please but look at the look at the raptors in there look at the raptor vacuum the rap i i okay i'm always going to call them the raptor backs i mean vacuum doctors just bear with me this is my little quirk because of how it's written out um but man just look at those i mean the expansion nozzle size is just mind-boggling yeah it's enormous you know i i really uh i know elon wanted this stack yesterday but i really don't think he lost out by doing it with the sunrise here oh my god the lighting from every angle is amazing the turbulence is low it's just i mean honestly we're really the winners here with the sunrise lift because yeah the picture is just so fantastic yeah and looks like we're almost halfway up uh the booster here yeah what a sight again y'all this is important this is the first time a starship has been mated to the super heavy not just i guess made it to the full stack super heavy but on the orbital launch mount this is where it's supposed to go to space from this isn't like oh we put some pieces together in the yard or oh we did a test fit over here this is the actual pad this is where it's supposed to launch from for its orbital flight test later this year i'm gonna say it that way yeah i'm gonna say it that way um later this year and whether it's tomorrow or december that's an accurate statement um but this is this is the real deal this is important it yeah i mean i mean this this is this is akin to the first time the the saturn 5 was fully stacked yeah in inside the vehicle assembly building the first time the shuttle was fully stacked the first time a soyuz was fully put together right i mean this is like the historical equivalent of those mass of those major moments and steps forward in in history and it's just incredible to see it the public visibility too like you get the stack in the va the vip sorry nasa folks and and you put the shuttle on the stack in the vab and you can't see it you gotta get nasa's photos and stuff like that in here it's on the side of a state highway in texas on the public beach anybody down there can see this happening right now it's just it's access that we didn't have when they did this with shuttle when they did this with saturn five well and it's the access we wish we could get and we wish that they were okay with with sls we'd love to be there you know filming sls doing this inside the vab for the very first time yeah and you know and we'll see if we get to um bgs if you're watching if you're watching you know how to get in contact with us like we're here we'd be happy to do this sort of coverage for sls too because this is so i mean it's it's the historic moment of it and i mean yeah there's a long way to go before they're ready for this stack to to make the launch attempt right there's a lot of testing that's left there's a lot of paperwork there's a lot of technical stuff that still needs to be put to rest right so you know whenever it happens but just the fact that they're stacking it that they're doing the fit check now and yes it's a fantastic photo op as well you know you can't gloss over that fact either but i mean just just look at this shot that's about to happen and look at it and look at this i mean it's just incredible to see it hanging there because it's exactly what you said to us we never get to see this out in the open yeah it's incredible it is you want to you want to make the public aware of of what's going on you want to build excitement this sort of access makes it happen letting us do this sort of thing you focus on building the rocket you focus on stacking the rocket wheel will show up with cameras just give us this sort of access so we can share it with people exactly exactly ah i'm like a kid in a candy shop right now without the cameras i just i handled the tight shot from the beach um yeah look it's just moving up i know you just see it very slowly i mean inching its way up the final barrels of the methane tank of the booster there it's just incredible the the methane tank part of the boosters are are the um the horizontal barrel sections and then the vertical sections up near where the uh grid fins attach is part of the intertank structure and what you're seeing there are the stringers the the reinforcements that are installed around it um because those are sometimes structurally weaker parts of the vehicle so you attach stringers to them on under high stress areas so they can uh properly withstand that that sort of stress so what you're seeing there is totally no hole yeah are those pieces of foam between the uh it's like it's like you got something from ikea and you put like a little thing that keeps it from rubbing together during shipping that is exactly what that looks like padding pads it doesn't have to be complicated you know oh my god that's amazing i love it i love it but see and it's that it's though it's those little tiny touches that i love yeah you know those things you would never never never think of but like yeah how how do you protect something when you're moving it just stick some foam space tape some foam between the engine belts god we don't need a 3.2 million dollar rig to do it just get some foam in there whatever that's that's space age foam man space foam you're right oh my god oh no human rated foam i just this is just incredible and 36 000 of you are now watching this along with us it's incredible welcome to wherever you are watching around the world and welcome to just basically what has descended into every once every three minutes us going oh my lord look at that you know what we're gonna need we're gonna have to update the texas tank watcher stuff in the store oh yeah we need to have the silhouette of starship on its way to be stacked is super heavy we'll have to talk to the store guy about it y'all if you haven't been to the shop yet at shop.nasaspaceflight.com we have all sorts of different merch we love the silhouette things because you sort of get the silhouette the original texas tank watchers with the starships on the subwoofer pads we've got the texas tank watchers designs there hop on over to shop.nasaspaceflight.com and check them out another great way to support what we're doing here i mean it takes a lot to get the cameras rolled up to the feed and every time you do a super chat or you let an ad roll or you pick up something from the store like we got hats and mugs and all sorts of stuff like win hop is in there and we've got some wind orbit starship just every different type of starship fan merch and it helps us keep the lights on and keep the data flowing here so that we can continue sharing this but uh we have to get just looking at the angles from the beach we have to get a silhouette of that like going up and make that the new texas tank watchers it's almost high enough it's about it's about to cross the threshold yeah look at that yeah it's not much longer y'all i mean yeah we went live at just the right time yep uh absolutely and there it goes it is tall it is higher than the booster right now no so michael highway [Laughter] look at that angle look at that oh man this is by doing as best of a mars impression for our marsh ship look at that look at that it's so cool i wonder if mary has uh has a camera set up at her normal sunrise spot with the reflective water i don't know if she has one there if she just has it over there she's at yeah no they would be all the way out of the beach i don't think there's any unattended cameras okay so oh this is so cool yeah and the lines uh look like they have cleared the top of the booster as well so they should start rotating over here momentarily yeah oh man that's i will say once again that spacex is very good at doing things that require you to suspend your disbelief like this looks like something from a sci-fi movie right now yeah it yep it just does it does not look like something that you would think is happening in real life and even i sometimes i look at this and i'm like oh that's a really cool rendering and it's not i i built these cameras myself they we've installed these cameras ourselves like with our own hands i know that the photons are coming to the lens and i am not skilled enough to do this with cgi all i can do is point a camera at something that's happening in real life this is just god it looks like it may have stopped going up yeah which might be about right they might be high enough to begin the they might be high enough to begin the swing over a little hard to tell from the angles yeah yep it's it's swinging right now i think just wow i think you're right michael it is it is there yep they're translating it over because the crane is disappearing behind it now yep so the swing over has begun workers are there they're ready to help position it perfectly yeah and one of those lifts went back down so it looks like there may only be two lifts right now maybe there's a third on the back yeah looked like just two i mean it is quite reminiscent of shuttle just the the way it looks with the heat tiles it's a very cool looking machine yeah what i love about the tile pattern right now is you can tell the areas where they where the modeling is suggesting that the plasma is going to flow a bit differently because you can see where they have altered the line of the tiles that is on that that would 100 be on purpose and based on where the modeling is showing the plasma flow and and how that's going to work over the vehicle and around the arrow surfaces like that which will disturb the plasma regime um as as it re-enters so yeah so like especially you could tell like up at the the upper flaps where uh yeah it's it's it almost wraps around like the back side a little bit yeah and the translation continues i i'm having trouble pointing the cameras because i'm actually shaking a slight bit which is very weird that's not a thing that uh happens usually and this is you mean like shaking with excitement or do you need to go something or literally literally pointing the cameras and i am a little bit i'd god look look oh my gosh just look at this engine yeah placement yes i don't know if i'm a robot but i am also shaking which is amazing jack we got you you sounded great this is just i mean i know the feeling it's happened like falcon heavy and the launch is about to go and you're there and you got your hand on the tripod and you're going to try to track the launch and just you feel the adrenaline and you're excited you sort of like feel it in your chest and that i am not doing anything i don't have my hand on a tripod right now i'm sitting in front of a computer basically playing video games with cameras and i i still this is yeah you're never again going to see this for the first time this is no and and as and as michael just said on twitter and and it's true moments away from it being stacked yeah yeah just oh my god i i mean just i i mean seriously if the people of south padre island and brownsville oh my gosh go see go look at it from a distance up close this is i mean i really hope if you're listening from there that that you like really understand how much your little part of the world is about to change yeah um and and will never ever be the same and for as much as it has changed in the last two years get ready yup um get ready um this is amazing but but oh my gosh go see it absolutely i mean and especially like just take a moment if you're in south padre island to walk into your front yard or walk to the beach or walk wherever it is and look at it from a distance yeah as well and then go see it up close because you will really really get because there's one thing about the kennedy space center that i love and i and stephen and dos curious on your thoughts on this too because the fact that you can see all of the pads and everything at kennedy from like 12 miles away across the river and then you drive up to them makes you appreciate that scale so much more and what you are seeing from that distance so go do both while this is stacked yeah yeah yeah yeah it's very cool to be able to look out there and see see the launch pad see the you know active uh like the the place where we go to space but boku chika is about to become one of those places yeah it it it it absolutely so is and um yeah and the scale is immense like it's it's crazy to see and and i hope everyone gets a chance to like go to a place like this you know kennedy space center even you know where they've got the saturn five and it's it blows my mind that humans are able to create things like this i i don't even think immense is the right word overwhelming yeah this is more of the white is more sensory overload yeah i mean because mary's just saying it's incredible to watch it out there mary's saying that a minute ago on on twitter with a picture of it in the air and yeah i mean it's just the size is overwhelming oh there's a camera operator up there looks like because you know that that would that's the one thing that a lot a lot of people have said and it's interesting to hear launch teams and people who work with vehicles like this say it too but but they say you know like the thing that gives you the this the true scale of it is when you drive out to it on the launch pad yeah yeah and you can see it next to other standing structures that that's what gets it to really click but but again i mean like we like we've said this is the the full stack is 118 meters tall from the tip from the bottom part of the raptors to the tip of the nose of ship um from the booster to to the ship and it beats the apollo saturn v in height and it beats the soviet n1 as well in heights so by height the biggest and uh by thrust with those raptor engines at the bottom the the most the most powerful yeah absolutely incredible yeah we're about it is almost in position it is almost imposition over the easter oh my word look at that danger cam having fun on its beach vacation there look at that i mean this is this is we've we've seen the renders before and you know and i've i've known for a long time that this is going to be a huge rocket but seeing that wide shot is like oh my goodness and hopefully it helps too they've provided humans for scale yeah you know yeah that's why they're there yeah like yeah that's going there still kind of swinging over into place michael if i miss something with a camera like sing out because i'm [Laughter] like i think i've got them all but just wow oh my gosh that's from the river i was going to say is that river oh my gosh yeah i'm okay a very crowded look at this michael's bat in the cycle with the camera ah look at that the sun's still rising in the back there every chapter air force patrolling out there this morning folks again this is the first time ever that a starship has been on top it's almost there of a super heavy booster elon wants thousands of these things and imagine 10 years from now 15 20 years from now looking back and saying i saw the first one of those they put up i see a lot of people in the chat saying like i was here and this is yeah this is historic and yeah yeah not lying when we say this is the equivalent of like when people were there the first time they put a saturn v together yeah to me this is in a lot of ways just as important as serial number eight or star hopper or sn5 and six like this is another one of those big big moments and yeah they're just putting a thing on top of another thing no big deal why do you guys care so much and watch this stuff for 12 hours at a time well we care because if you look two years ago that we're not even star hoppers two year anniversary so when we're at the two-year anniversary of this particular event this stacking what will the current state of things look like in two years from now given that we've come so far in the last two years and that's why i think we're all so excited right because this is history and it's also the future and that's why i like to alternately scream history and future at times like this because i mean we're we're watching something that will go down in the history books and at the same time we're watching something that we hope is a harbinger for wait harbinger's a bad thing we hope this is a uh harold herald yeah harold is positive harbinger's bad yeah we hope this is a herald of uh you know more cool stuff to come in the coming years with the starship system so i'll shut up now i just wanted to be poetic for a second this is amazing yeah that's a really good point yeah absolutely yeah how much has happened in just the last little bit and how much will happen in the next little bit yeah and to the more than 53 000 of you watching with us right now just wow incredible it's so cool so many of you all are interested to spend this time with us exactly exactly stephen i'm sorry i didn't mean to interrupt you there no actually i think i was interrupting you we'll call it we'll call it a we'll call it a draw yeah there we go it's interesting and it's rotated how it is i sort of would have expected it to be a little bit counterclockwise more than it like so that the the windward side was directly in between the grid fins and if that makes sense and it's kind of offset a little bit does that mean yeah is anyone else i wonder if they're going to rotate it again or what maybe so i would think the grid fins to to be even with the flaps or maybe you want it 90 degrees from the flap so the grid so so the flaps are in between the wider area between the grid fins i'm not sure what they're what their idea is here but certainly keeping track of it i i think it's so if you look at it and the fins are full and the arrow surfaces are fully deployed that they would be equidistant between the fins at the grid fence at their closest point yeah i think that's how that's going to be that's that's at least from renders we've seen again we'll see we'll see if the renders are correct um well i i guess we know that we don't want the grid fins occluded during a pitch move like a pitch program so you want the grid fins sort of to your left and right relative to your pitch right and we know that that's the way that starship had launched as well with the with the fins to the left and right relative to the pitch as it did this didn't do a lot of pitch earlier right because it was just doing this suborbital hops but maybe they both have to be in that position and you can't have starship sideways so the grids are sort of one set or sorry the fins are sort of one set leeward one set windward and the grid fins opposite that maybe they both have to be there on the side to get equal arrow loading you know and i would think that you would uh you you would want like the i guess the the very like the top of the back facing the tower right because that's i think that's where you're gonna load in or or i would assume uh at least from renders yeah that doesn't make sense you don't want the heat shield on the tower side because if you're gonna have a crew access arm at some point or something like that and a fueling arm yeah fueling arm on the tower side that is a great point steve wow you can all and you can also see that this is arranged in in a sort of different way right that the tower is at a pointy side closest to the ship not a flight side um so i you know that's an interesting design choice that probably largely has to do with those catch arms and how everything has to like reposition and where the arms have to swing over based on exactly what you were just saying you need the non-heat shielded side toward the tower because ideally you're not gonna touch the heat shield in between flights you know um you're just gonna pick it up stack it and go again it's it's going down it looks like it is look at this they're lowering it oh they're lowering it i the tiles make it i mean oh the tiles make it yeah it looks so slick yeah yeah it very much does i mean it's got such shuttle vibes because even though we know that it's stainless steel the parts that we can see that are stainless steel still on the whole look very light like they don't look shiny just the contrast of the dark black it makes it look like like sort of shuttle the contrast between white and black on the shuttle right chris oh it does it totally does yeah wow getting so close yup using human for scale it's less than six feet from contact yep less than a human away less than a human yeah so less than a full grown human yeah and again you see the little rope that's attached you should sort of see the rope still over there and it's going down sort of to the right that rope goes all the way to the ground doesn't it uh it does yes you can see it on the other side it does it goes all the way to the ground on the other on the other camera angle you totally can yeah like a like a climbing rope or something yeah those come very long should we say like a maypole or something yeah but just look at that and it looked like it looks like it's so calm out there remember the cryo shell that was lifted yesterday and that thing was sort of waving back and forth and that was low to the ground and this morning just look at that thing yep looks like they might be doing the rotation to square it up with the grid fins yep it takes a lot to make us be quiet y'all yeah i mean i'm also researching something for a point here in a second i mean i can talk like from everyone's gob smack i'm sitting here watching this thing get set down and just reminded that we're out here the way we are because of the support from all of our members and super chatting and everyone watching and it's just this is an amazing piece of history and the fact that we get to broadcast it to the entire world is really really amazing it's really cool like i'm standing next to the camera that's one of the cameras that's bringing you these views and yesterday mary and i set up another one of the cameras bringing you these views and yep it's just it's an honor it's really cool that we get to do this and it's really cool that you all care and like steven said human for scale we're less than six feet away we're so close we're so close i can see people on the tower and i'm not going to change my camera view but i can see people on the tower with my other lens yep we've got them in silhouette jack so so on the highway cam you can see the silhouette of people up on the tower there's a drone there was just a drone just before we cut to this shot there was a drone entering the frame yeah there's there's been an inspire one flying around all morning nice you know upper left i don't see it now yeah they drifted back out of frame it drifted back out all right gotcha yeah that's not their security drone that is a get nice imagery drone so hopefully we see some cool photos from that thing or video for a second there i saw i saw the workers on the lift on the left and for just a moment i thought they were standing on the grid fence i don't think that's uh that's a lot that's a no step yes yeah that's a no step area what's the scene like out there jack is there just a ton of people watching this right now oh he's he's back off calms yeah you can see the drone right there orbiting yeah yeah and it looks like the flap is more squared away with those grid fins now from this angle thanks michael oh that's cool oh look at that with the clouds drifting in the back yeah and the silhouettes it's going for the silhouettes of the folks there you can see on the lift down there and then look at the squid the attachment slings at the top just you really get to see those in silhouette with that you really do incredible just oh look at that thanks for sharing this with us folks just yeah yeah i just wanted to point out this very generous uh super chat 100 bucks from brentwolf thank you very much yeah we really appreciate that wow thanks i'm glancing over at the cue y'all and there's so many kind words and stuff like that uh thanks for providing important coverage you know i've been watching many months thanks for many months of outstanding coverage in boca chica can't wait to see it my per in in person started watching your channel when they rolled out booster 3. you guys do an awesome job and i love the random tidbits of knowledge thank you and keep it up the future is now just so many kind words over there y'all i was here there you go i was here i was here yep i'm seeing people in the chat pointing out there's now 60 000 watching along with us welcome all of you bringing us the optimistic future we need this greg you're not wrong indeed again just slow and steady here you get eyes on it i wonder how how many eyes are on this right now i mean up close the operators all the communication required remember the person driving the crane is all the way down at the bottom right in the cab of the crane there is one person at the controls of this massive crane that has to within inches align the starship with the top of the booster it's this isn't like eh just kind of get it close this is the amount of teamwork and communication required for this that is the amount of teamwork and communication indeed and trust as well you know all the folks that are up here working on this everybody at that site the trust that's put into the single person down at the controls of that crane right now man yeah sometimes we talk about like what i wonder what kind of camera views uh the crane operator might have i wonder if they've got one of those cameras up up there in the skirt that's looking down like you know some of the views we've seen during uh test flights yeah well i imagine the crane operators cab may look sort of like the control room for the studio here with cameras all over the place y'all just uh very well might just another testament to what we can get done when you've got inspiration and teamwork and trust and all the things that go into something like this that's what we need more of it really is yeah this is i mean it it it it's just absolutely incredible to to watch this but but thinking back and thinking back to the historical nature of it one thing that i had wanted to go back to find um was just a little bit of comparison for the dates because this is really cool so um uh going back to like similar historic moments in history um for for vehicles the vostok k rocket which would be the one that would eventually launch the first human into orbit rolled out fully integrated for the first time in december of 1960 the saturn 5 rolled out fully integrated for the first time on august 26th 1967. the shuttle enterprise rolled out fully integrated on may 1st 1979 and jump to now for starship with a full integration on august 6 2021 nice little 61-year progression there oh wow it looks like about oh i don't know two feet three feet yeah probably one one meter we'll say we'll say one meter less than a torso like from your belt up to your neck it's less than that i'm just looking at the workers there yeah because the lowering uh yeah lowering is yeah it's definitely lower than the last time i looked at it yeah yep there's a big rotation yeah let's get this thing lined to the up to the right and crane operators can correct me on this but uh you see some of the workers there on the lift sort of keep a finger on it right you see that they're sort of reaching up and they sort of just just keep a hand on it every time i say that they take their hand off but anyways well because they're wired what do you think they're watching like are they listening podcast mode as well like they can hear it so it just gets closer and closer to a historic touchdown i guess you could say a historic touchdown there we go yeah again remember what elon said that the ship is one thing and stage zero all the infrastructure and work that goes into supporting and launching that ship that's even more difficult right so the fact that they can actually stack you can build a starship all day long heck make a row of them parade them up and down the road that means nothing unless we can actually get them on top of the boosters yeah right no now dos i want you to a stop predicting next week right [Laughter] hey just going by this week's breakneck speed yep i'm gonna see we're gonna see like a booster go down the road with like three starships in tow behind it like a mama duck like mama in the ducks behind it like it looks like penguins actually it looks like straight off national geographic great it totally would it takes its launch flock with it yeah i have to get like attenborough or something over here to talk about the mating habits of the wild starship or something see that would be incredible if we did like a video of like starships in the wild but did it as if it was like a nature show yeah yeah that would that would be funny i mean we've got plenty of camera angles that are sort of like with plants in the way like we're in a blind or something that and we've got so much like video of like starships in various stages of production we could totally do and as the parent looks lovingly at its offspring you know yeah exactly and we've got chris b who can do a david attenborough impression you go i hope he just laughed at his desk yeah at least like i'm over here thinking like can i even attempt a david attenborough impression without embarrassing myself rule number one don't do real accents please it never ends well what if i was really good at it and i didn't know oscar off air so here's here's what i want y'all what do we have we're at 14 200 likes right now roughly don't do it yet don't mention it don't click it yet but when it touches down i want to see if we can skyrocket that number there you go tell us in chat there goes the drone as well look at that with the drones oh my gosh and look at how the uh i mean just how the sunrise is now reflecting off of all the tiles yep look at that you can see the tiles that have been cut hold hold the likes keep going chris no no no i know i know and it's almost down hold the likes i actually saw some people like it then i saw it go back down again hold they unliked it but they i think they all liked it until it touches down when that last black gap goes away look at that the reflection of the sun is actually almost bridging the gap there it is look at that look at that it's so close hold hold i'm holding with you all i'll hit it with you diamond hands on the likes here it's so close oh it's inching a little bit more it's inching a little bit more what's the equivalent centimetering a little bit more wow oh come on why is this like as exciting as a launch nerve wracking is one i'm i'm interested that we don't see any sort of alignment tabs that stick up off the booster i mean because they're on the inside and they're literally bending down to look i think that's where they are yeah that drone too just yeah so many eyes on this like just that the way that we can experience this and the way that it can be shared and captured is we have so many tools that they didn't have when they were doing shuttle when they were doing saturn they just didn't have the same sort of technology that we have now so jack is uh dialing in to account for that reflection of the sun so close oh it's like docking to the space station right like holding you know yeah they're holding it like one third of a meter like come on guys yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna say it out loud he's touching it there we go you can tell when he's gonna adjust something yeah i was gonna say it out loud so jack can hear it remember jack and mary are both juggling i don't know how many cameras they have out there right now probably six seven eight cameras i'm not even sure but uh a lot going on taking still photos taking time lapses doing the live stream cameras with just two operators so they are doing a lot and uh massive thanks to them for capturing this for us oh i wish i was out there with my time lapse slider doing this peeking up from behind one of those dunes oh that'd be so cool i've got a time lapse camera over to my left just going by itself it's not on a slider or anything so it'll be a stationary shot but yep i'm really really hoping that shot comes out because it's just a wide angle yeah it hasn't moved since before sunrise kind of shot wow i get a nice uh i get a nice sunrise sort of day to night deal going on yeah and i know a lot of you are asking on me on twitter if we're doing a time lapse oh yes several oh yes don't you worry yeah and don't forget if you're if you're new to the channel uh there are daily videos that come out and so this one will be uh pretty epic i think so make sure you're looking out for that daily video oh yeah to the 67 000 of you watching if you are new yeah exactly what stephen just said daily videos of a whole bunch of thing and live launch coverage when we're there on the ground at launches especially here in the us major uh moments in space as well but yeah it's it's all go around space here yeah it really is i mean you're down to like watch your fingers level now y'all yep this is uh like it looks like it's a hand with the way like if you put your hand up horizontally they're actually lowering the platform look at that oh yeah to bring it right to eye level yeah yeah oh jack with a little enhance there i wonder if they'll undo that tag line before they drop it the rest of the way yeah i i think they come off the sides on the outside yeah okay okay like a little connection that comes off the side yeah oh gosh almost there is an anemometer there he is do you see that i just saw that a wind speed indicator right next to the the white hard hat well just over his right shoulder and that makes total sense at the heights that they're at yep oh for sure yeah i mean how else are you gonna know if you're within wind limits yep just right there on the on the aerial work platform itself and so close so close wow jack you look like it's lowering it looks like it's lowering oh yeah yeah yep look at this oh come on here we go touchdown nominee down it they're touching it looks like they're they're touching i thought i saw a like a hand signal or something that looked like they touched down there yeah oh i saw what it looked like a fist pump but yeah i think that was the signal that that they have contact the camera guy has turned away from this turned away yeah i think that's a good idea [Laughter] so if you were waiting for the likes now is the time to release this smash that like button folks out the sky with the thumbs up for spacex here because that right there starship prototype ship 20 has been mated with super heavy booster four oh wow so 7 56 a.m central time there you go touchdown and mating of the two uh portions of that vehicle together and just look at that almost incredible oh man and more than 68 000 of you are here to witness it live with us yep there's people there's i can hear people all around cheering i can't tell if it's just employees or both there's cheers erupting around here awesome excellent history has been made this now we're now looking at the world's most powerful rocket ever assembled yeah ever ever ever even before ever [Laughter] again everybody watching thank you for sharing this with us this is a big deal yeah jack all the people in the chat i was here i was here i was here yep they're like now what do we do we're good we're reviewing the footage yeah they're reviewing the footage look at this oh that is incredible silhouetted you can see it because the tower is actually in front of it from this angle you look through the tower to see the starship and it's the silhouette with the light behind it that allows us to see this oh that is incredible look at that that is going to be a cool angle for launch right there yeah yes indeed it will just off the side of the tower starship we were like oh what can you really see from here when i first went out there the tower wasn't anywhere near this high and i had to stand on top of my truck i had a big four-wheel drive work truck a ram 2500 and i had to get in the bed and then stand on top of the cab to see the tower over the mesquite here that's when i was out there installing this camera and now the tower's been raised up above it and you can see the booster over it and then starship fully clears the tree line there the scrub line really the mesquite out there look at this and so here now we can see because i was curious about you know the part on the tower at the top that kind of protrudes out where that is you know in relation to the full stack so it's actually above the tip of the nose everybody that was worrying oh the starship's not going to fit oh the starship's going to be taller than the tower as it turns out someone at spacex did the math before they actually assembled this tower and the tower is in fact taller than the launch mount plus the table plus the booster plus the starship no more photoshop required if i'm not mistaken though the crane on the tower that goes up and down the side megazilla as elon called it will attach to the starship below that forward flap so it does not happen yeah does not have to be as tall as the tower yep that was a big thing right the power can be shorter than the starship we saw the uh the renderings originally right in the original renderings that you know all flying into new york city on the three o'clock starship or whatever um it had the crane on top of the tower in the best that we can see the tower doesn't have those supports to to install a crane on top of it like we saw in those early renderings and so it's going to be like a shuttle or a trolley system going up and down the side of the tower that has the arms attached to it and then on the starship kind of hard to see here but you can see between the two grid fins there's a little sort of a nub that sticks out for lack of a better term and that is the load point there's one on either side between the grid fins and that's what they used to actually lift it up apparently according to elon that's what the arms are going to catch as well which makes total sense and then also the tower arms able to rotate off to one side to catch it so if i had to guess they're not going to catch it right above the launch mount they're going to try to catch it in the area to the left where they haven't built anything look at mary's camera there and then look how it's clear to the lower left there's no big structures there and if i had to yes go ahead didn't elon even tweet or say on tim's interview that uh they're gonna catch it off to the side not over the launch mount so yep if something goes wrong they don't roast the launch mount yep he said off to one side and i think it's gonna be to the left side from this angle on mary's camera here because there's no structure there they haven't put anything there and it's on the side opposite from all the ground surface equipment right so this is just yeah that'll be interesting to see how that mechanism works how it can catch it off the side and then rotate around the tower to actually set it back on the launch platform that'll be really cool to see yep that may be why uh it's got the pointy side of the tower towards the mount because that sort of gives you the flat side and another pointy side towards us i'm gonna say the catching side i don't know for sure that it's gonna be the catching side um but that that how that works and stays attached to those two uh attach points load points that's going to be really interesting to see how that mechanism ends up working it will yeah you know the other thing about this shot from mary right here you see all the way back in the back the high bay and then the two starships sn15 and s16 if we want to do it exactly correctly i guess all right it's a long way from there to here isn't it yeah it's like a is it about a mile from launch site to production site well i wasn't really counting miles i was going with the more philosophical the amount of work required and you know that's what i was trying to do but you know yeah 1.7 miles no dos it's 1.7 miles it's not that long you can walk it me the the literalist over here it's all good i think now a lot of people are just sort of soaking this in you know just soaking it up yeah and of course folks um i hope that well if you can hear the sound of my voice i hope that you caught it live but we are also going to pull all the video off the cameras we're going to pull all the time lapses all the still photos that jack and mary are taken out there um some work leading up to it and we are going to make that daily video and hopefully since the stacking operation is completed a little bit earlier this morning maybe that video will launch uh this afternoon or earlier in the evening because i know a lot of times they're recording all day long and so our videos get edited and they're put up at like you know midnight or one or two or something like that but uh you will see all of this we'll speed it up all the different angles the cameras that you weren't seeing we've got a tight shot from the beach we've got the wide shot from the beach we've got the river angle we've got the silhouette angle from highway tight and wide there the cameras that you see on starbase live i've actually got a four box running with just four different views over there right now jack and mary's footage we're gonna roll that all into one experience for you so a little bit difficult to watch the super long broadcast maybe you didn't see it live hey you can also scroll back the broadcast if you hold the time of our the timeline back you can you can see that but uh we will also get that daily video out look at that oh man there's a worker up there lower left hand corner right above spacex taking photos actually a photographer oh yeah you see him look at that and the flag's still waving up there they put that american flag on that top segment when they deployed it yeah that's like a that's like a construction thing right like yeah they put a flag when they top it off yep topping it off yep wow i mean you know even with the the missing uh tiles it's just it looks so incredible it looks even it looks you know something it may look even more realistic with the missing tiles yeah when i go like especially atlantis oh my gosh if you ever get to florida you ever get to cape canaveral you go to the kennedy space center visitors complex and you go and see shuttle atlantis it's got battle damage on it yeah yeah it literally has battle damage like fighting the atmosphere returning chris how many times through the atmosphere atlantis did 33. 33 times doing battle with the atmosphere and you see the scars on atlantis like the flown space hardware it just it has this look of reality to it and you can tell that this is something that not only went to space but it came back with people on board that's sort of the thing right about like sci-fi a lot of the time all the vehicles are so nice and clean and pristine and perfect no real sci-fi if we're going on the realism side versus like the fantasy side hard sci-fi i guess that's the right word for it like the vehicle should look battered and beaten and worn like i keep i always think of the millennium falcon when i think about something like this it's like yep it should look beaten up and worn and i guess atlantis is a better example because it's actually a real thing but yeah i mean the this aesthetic it it just looks cool i don't care that there's not all the tiles on there it looks like it just came back from orbit everything's fine they can that's nominal like this and they can just stack it again and go like um i sort of wonder how long they're going to keep it like this like are they going to keep it like this today for a minute for two days for a week uh how long does whatever their testing take there's i think there's a non-zero chance we see this thing unstacked today also yep that may very well be the case you know i i'm wondering so i i don't know and i don't know if they're there yet i don't know if they're ready for this but a shot with the lifts down at the very least would be cool so it's just the the stack the booster and the starship on top and the lifts the little mechanical arms that are there tending to the to the mate point right if those were to come down that would be a cool shot i don't know if we're gonna get a shot without the crane because right now how would they get up there none of the big lifts the the aerial work platforms that they have i don't think any of them have the reach to get to the top i think the highest one they have is around 300 feet um could you put a basket on a crane even the buckner crane isn't tall enough to reach the top of starship so i also generally think they will unhook the crane without arms to hold and stabilize the stack yeah arms are kind of part of that as well and the crane i don't expect them to detach the coolest that would look yep yeah this is what we're dealing with for today which is this is a fit check right yep so maybe maybe we'll get a shot with the with the aero work platforms down but i don't know if we're gonna get a completely clean shot with the crane out today it seems unlikely that the crane would be completely detached but we will definitely see even when we start to spool down this stream y'all i think we're still just soaking it in but the views of this are going to be live on starbase live all day long we're not shutting them down the cameras stay live over there we'll certainly link you up whenever uh we are going to be spooling down here but for now i think we're all just sort of enjoying the view yeah absolutely i still like i still like people saying i was here like in chat sometimes people like oh you know it's just spamming stuff geez you know something we were here sing it like i am okay with it this is cool incredible i'd love to know what they're doing up there oh going down yeah they can actually get to see it with uh with the people lifters oh on the other side too all the all the paper lifters are going down okay oh wow it's like three two one go yeah yeah all right we're all set all right so we have coordinated booster stacking now what is that on the back of it there that is a good question oh yeah i think the pressure the pressurization leads or whatever yeah yeah i just think they left some of the like i just think they're left there yeah yeah okay above the greatest sentence on the right yeah on the right that's that's a quick disconnect attachment point for a fueling starship gotcha gotcha and we saw with the booster i guess with the starship as well they had a sort of ground pressurization equipment hooked up to that because when they do things like this they do keep it lightly pressurized because having pressure in there helps with the rigidity the structural stability and starship should be as well too the ship should be as well yep come a long way from uh remember when we were arguing whether or not it was a starship yet and it was sn5 and it's just the aft tank you got the methane tank the lox tank just of the starship portion that wasn't that long ago late night cryo tests where we're sitting there trying to decide whether or not it's a starship yet i think now we can say it's a starship it is a starship it's a starship super heavy actually the whole thing it's the whole shebang video which i think is now called starship is is the whole thing yeah i thought you were gonna say it is now called the shebang the shabbat well i mean yeah yeah no we're we're a long way from like i offer naming services spacex if you're interested like yeah we're a long way from water towers can fly somebody said in chat oh and absolutely we save all the footage yeah oh my god we have servers um and drag like cloud drives that just are shock full of terabytes of server of video footage every angle is going to get the full recording for this sometimes we take snippets we're like oh that angle wasn't that great or ah the turbulence was too bad here but for this we had such beautiful air this morning we are going to be pulling every single bit of footage we can get our hands on i just want to point out real quick paul lamadeline over here with a very generous 200 bucks pop the champagne congrats to spacex and all the folks with nasa space flight thank you very much paul that is extremely generous it looks like they sent that through uh right as we had touchdown so very cool there oh fantast thank you i like this uh box maker in chat said this is neither thinking inside or outside the box this is creating a whole new box yeah i like it yeah that's pretty that's a good one fair fair and lots of new members remember y'all if uh if you want a community that's that's sort of uh always on and and talking about space things and hardware some you know some of its light-hearted discussions some of its super high-tech discussions uh if you become a member in the top two levels you do get access to our discord channel where there's lots of other people just like you that just love this stuff one of those discords you can't actually keep up with there's so many interesting posts like i can't spend much time there because there's so much interesting discussion going on sort of uh in the little members perk discord so every now and then i just have to right click the server and mark as red there's no way i can keep up takes a long time for those people lifters to get down doesn't it yep are they no okay they're still drifting down looks like yeah i think so it looks like they're racing the one on the left-hand side is beating the one in the back yeah but they do look like they're still going down i don't know what they'd be to inspect in the middle right yeah i was thinking maybe there was something to look at on the way down who knows yep i'm gonna ask uh jack and jack maybe pass this over to mary too in the past we've seen when you start adding load like this some dense form in the main body i wonder if up and down the main body from the angles that you all see if you can see anything like that that sort of popped in you know and we'll see if we get some text in the back channel or something like that but nominal i still imagine that a significant portion of the load is on the crane at some point they may put the full weight down there but they do keep the crane attached so if they see something start to happen it's not just like all right cut the cable and put all the weight on the stack um they definitely put it very carefully just the same way when they pick it up the crane starts to take the load a little bit at a time it doesn't just instantly yank it off the ground and so is one of the gsc tanks yes the gsc tank that rolled out with the ship the other day got it got it yeah yeah good grief spacex yeah that's what i was saying uh the other day is what what really blew my mind about this place is just everywhere you look there's work going on it's not all eyes on on the one thing it's like there's people busy doing all kinds of stuff all over starbase yeah yeah well you know i almo i almost said it earlier this morning when i saw that the uh load spreader had been attached to the the tank i almost said i wonder if they're going to move it as soon as they get starship stacked well i guess you wouldn't have i should get a lottery ticket tonight now this one is a little shorter than the others um any ideas why that is oh it is good question yeah it doesn't look like it's actually shorter yeah i thought before it was just because it wasn't on its stand or whatever but you can tell that this one is shorter it might be a redesign or it might be that that it might be that the like i'm spitballing here it might be that the larger ones we've seen are the oxygen tanks and the smaller ones are going to be the methane tanks just because it is it does hold more oxygen than methane so that that might be the difference yeah that could be that makes sense if i'm not mistaken though it's actually ah that the locks tanks are shorter but there's three of them ah okay things go reverse but you can see some of them have taller stands in the others although maybe the nitrogen tanks are also shorter i'm not sure but i think the methane side is on the right and you can see right there the methane tank this has smaller stands in the far left yeah and this one does appear to be yeah they're only concrete stand there's available right now yeah okay yeah the nitrogen and the methane are both tall and the liquid oxygen isn't short are the shorts okay okay so reverse of the actual tank sizes in the vehicles gotcha yeah what was what was the ratio it's like three times as much oxygen to the knight or to the methane am i remembering that right 70 or 78 78 liquid oxygen i think okay and just to answer this for people wondering uh i'm seeing some questions for when is the launch uh this is not leading up to a launch today this is as far as we understand this is a fit check and uh and an awesome photo opportunity of course yeah uh we're not expecting a launch uh well we're periods we're like right right now we're not we don't we don't have an estimate of when that might happen there's still lots of paperwork to do and testing to do there's probably going to be a a whole testing regime of you know doing cryotests static fires and stuff like that so don't get ahead of us here we're not really expecting a launch uh soon exactly exactly in fact one of the biggest indicators that we're not expecting one soon is you see them still assembling the fuel farm um and you see there are two the two larger propellant tanks there still have holes in the side of them um from what it looks like their access doors are open um and they still need the cryo shells over them and everything like that so the fuel farm has a ways to go too and yeah you know you need fuel uh if you want to like the engines yeah um in that regard but but yeah just sort of pointing out the visual that's on screen right now is is a is a good indication too of you know like there's still some there's still some ways to go yeah absolutely just incredible yeah just incredible all right now now that we're stacked and you know we're just kind of watching i am going to try to run 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here we try to read your messages we try to answer your questions it's just something that you don't get on the traditional news even shows that are produced we're live we're watching this live right now with you like we're reading the super chats right now it's just and you know i i love when i love when we see where like like not just at at work not just at home but i love when we see the photographs of like where our streams are being broadcast in public places as well you know like when i when i've gotten photos from people who are walking into hotels and they hear us talking because the hotel has our stream up and playing in the lobby and like i know i'm blanking on exactly where it is but i know there's a tattoo uh a tattoo shop um somewhere in in the us and i'm totally really sure his name is yes yes that are huge fans and they have it up and i just love that because it's it's like you you see the reach and you see the inspiration that space has for people right and and just across the board i i love it i'm so sorry i'm blanking on that name but yeah it's so it i i i just love seeing all of that too because it it reminds you of how unifying space can be you know chris i've got a little bit of a story with that uh the falcon heavy launch right i got the footage of the falcon heavy launch and went back to my hotel and i asked the front desk you know they got the tv in the little break area the hotel like in the front area where you breakfast or whatever and i'm like hey can i use your tv and i edited the footage of the falcon heavy launch on the big screen tv in the lobby of the hampton inn at titusville and we started out no laptop connected to the hdmi and we were showing the videos and stuff like that and we started out with just people we were hanging out started in a little meet up a couple other people came and met us there and after 15-20 minutes everybody who was checking in was gathering around in the lobby people coming down to get a soda or something like that people with their bags still standing there and we're literally editing the video on the tv in the hotel in just a group of people random people stopped in which started talking with us about falcon heavy about the launch it's just it's such a unifying thing it draws your eye it brings your interest in and it's something that you don't have to be a rocket scientist you don't have to be a math whiz you can still be a part of this you know yeah it's just cool it's it's awesome and wolfram over here saying i was here for gemiini apollo and the moon landings space shuttle i was here with nsf for cargo dragon slash crew dragon and the starships test and now i was here with nsf for sn20 being stacked on b4 thanks nsf well thank you thank you for being here as long as you have been and if you're new well welcome to the family i hope you keep on joining us for all these live streams you know how to get back you know the buttons to click and in the youtubes to find the 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they don't make you show a camera or any sort of camera license when you drive down highway 4 to the beach anybody can go there amateur regular amateur you got a cell phone um it is a public road and there are literally thousands of people that enjoy the beach every weekend that's why the road closures and stuff like that are such a big deal but it is possible to get out there and right here so jack and mary are over on the dunes with the with this ocean behind them the gulf of mexico behind them this is part of boca chica state park and you can drive out there vehicle that you have no paved roads on the beach so you sort of run out of pavement so please don't get stuck um but you can get there and park and you can go over and take a shot like this with the sun going down behind it i mean boku chika beach boca chica state park stretches miles up and down the beach there and every single weekend there are literally a thousand plus people out there doing barbecues grilling out kids playing in the ocean digging their own speed bumps which was something that i've never seen the families no the families will have little tents set up and stuff and then they actually take shovels and across the beach they dig their own speed bumps so that people slow down because all the kids are out there playing on the beach i'm okay with it honestly so i don't know steve if you saw that when you were out there but they literally were digging speed bumps because the kids playing in the water and everything yeah yeah yeah i mean i don't know why you'd drive fast on that sand anyway but yeah yeah i got some fishing trucks with a bunch of fishing poles anxious to get to the jetties it seems right so uh you know the fish are not going anywhere slow down now you don't know that i mean it's like they practically live in the water they do live in the water it's true yes the lifts are going back up i wonder if they got their shots there you know either they needed to go get some equipment or they backed off the lift to get the shots and then they are sending the lifts back up i don't know of any other reason is one go down to pick up elon or something i'm not sure why the lips would go down if it wasn't a photo op or they needed other equipment i don't know what equipment they could need because starship needs to connect itself to the top of super heavy and also release itself from the top of super heavy right yeah now i don't know but i do kind of wonder if they might be about the speculation that they might be about to take it down oh wow that quick huh how would we know jesus yeah well i guess you see the gap form again and stuff right yeah because we are expecting it to go back for more work to the production site but yeah you know weather is a constraint so if the weather's good maybe they take it down right now i mean they still have the low winds of the early morning we know they try to get a lot of work done um with that but it's not like we're gonna see him go up there with a with a mark one persuader and start banging on something to loosen it up you know it's uh all the connection points should be internal to the starship super heavy stack so we will have to see what's going to go on here cm uh enab knit says uh my grandfather remembers seeing newsreels about the v2 and now i'm talking to him about the rocket that's going to take humans to mars yeah that's pretty cool they said thank you for your work uh so i could share this with them yeah that that's so cool you know having something like this that that can uh be sort of a topic of discussion within the family and friends and stuff indeed oh ghost rider thank you so much for the 50 super chat and and and scotty die as well uh with 50 thank you thank you so much uh oh here's one from uh uh from shayla shaleen chalene um chalene lawrence saying i was born during the shuttle era but my dad was a big space nerd and passed his love of space on to me my earliest memory is the sojourner rover oh i love that let's do journal over when sojourner launched and landed on on mars yeah no i mean i i i'm very much the same like i was born during the shuttle era my dad was a huge space person he always made sure that we saw you know every shuttle launch um and everything no matter the time of day because it was important and it was history and those are truly i my dad isn't here anymore and those are truly the memories that i that i cherish my my first memory is actually my first memory is actually slightly before sojourner and it is the very first launch of endeavor is the first memory a space memory that i have that i can like pin to the ear to an earliest date is the maiden flight of endeavor or the first flight of endeavor and i'm just over here jealous i never got to see a shuttle fly in person anyway well later this year when sls goes just imagine one mounted to the side of it yeah just imagine nice that's what i say every every time it comes up in conversation i'm like i'm super excited to see sls because it's the closest i'll ever get to being able to see a shuttle flight yeah that's one you know not a lot of regrets or anything like that but uh i lived in atlanta while shuttle was still flying for years in years and i was sort of interested i wasn't completely into space i was doing dot com stuff out there and tech work and stuff and uh i don't know how many times oh the shuttle's gonna launch i could drive down this weekend i always had the opportunity to drive down it's hours from atlanta down that way but i could have done it and i never did it i'll go next month oh it'll keep launching i'll i'll see it next time and i never went i should have gone you know yeah i was um yeah i was trying to to make it happen for the last shuttle flight and it just couldn't i just i couldn't i couldn't make it work i i had started another job when the final three rolled around um and uh i know i deeply annoyed them with the ever-changing schedules because and everything like that but oh my gosh i was not gonna miss him like i yeah and i totally annoyed my bosses on that one but you know managed to keep the job so you know managed to keep the job nice to be fair that was before that that was like when i had another job aside from nsf yeah yeah yeah not not that not that crispy was like what you want to go to the shuttle launches no so incredible i mean i'm just i'm scrolling through the super chats because most of them are not questions most of them are just as we've been saying like uh you know comments and people sharing memories and and history it's it's incredible um uh wigan creative here with a 100 super chat uh saying thanks from our entire staff um thank you so much for all that you do this day for the his this day is for the history books and we're all just floored you are wonderful people thank you wigan yeah appreciate you there wig and creative yeah thank you so much that's that's incredible and then joe rosario saying thanks uh for sharing this historic event with your audience i can't wait for the launch yes me too but i am not holding my breath because i know we got a lot of a lot of testing to go through before that happens which obviously will bring you live coverage of so make sure you're around and again y'all we are uh continuing to watch i think we're just sort of soaking it in or sharing memories and stuff like that with people yeah something like an experience here but the lifts have gone back up and it is possible it is possible that we could actually see them unstack this that is a possibility here today we know that uh there is still a lot of work to be done and spacex is not the type to sit around and rest on their laurels all right it's stacked it's not going to do them any good stacked right now they just wanted to make sure that it was going to fit but there's still work to be done and it's quite possible that instead of sitting around even for a day or an afternoon you got the weather the wind is cooperating the crane is already hooked up the crews are there we may very well see starship michael starship prototype s20 i get it right 4s20 both are correct okay starship prototype ship 20 or starship prototype s20 yeah i just have never heard them stay or use starship 20. which doesn't make sense to me but i haven't seen them use it so ship 20 or s20 all right well we may very well so whatever you want to call it will not change the fact that it is possible that they may unstack it here the taglines are still attached they're still out to the side um workers back up at the top we will see oh the camera operator look that's maybe a good sign the camera operator is pointing that camera right at the gap or not yet but where the seam i guess would be the right terminology oh we may get a twofer here i guess yeah yeah huh well we can definitely file that under well that wasn't exactly expected but well i'm just glad that we now have footage of the fully stacked starship oh yeah yeah and lots of great photos make sure y'all are following mary and jack on twitter because i'm sure actually i have not been checking they may have already posted some photo i know mary has posted some photos yeah just keep your eyes peeled there enjoy the view while you have it because it looks like it's about to go back down it does yeah [Music] wow well i'm game y'all here yeah yeah we're here uh wow i'm here i'm here for an hour yes all right cool so uh yeah let's continue to watch yeah and i'm getting um let me see right here um scrolling's going swirling i've seen some new ones come in hang i'm on i'm trying to scroll to get them um we have uh from jim we have a 50 super chat from jim hershey saying i have watched nsf coverage from starships development since the beginning and i cannot thank you enough for providing us with the opportunity to witness this with you and everyone here it is truly inspiring and the work you do is invaluable thank you so much jim very very much appreciated very much appreciated huh justin with a 50 super chat asking if we have ever discussed giving the raw footage to like archive.org or the smithsonian oh jeez our dm's are open smithsonian if you wanted yeah our messages are open yeah that's not uh i guess welcome to 2021. yeah have the smithsonian slide into the dms over here oh man but good point i mean for historical purposes right now anyway smithsonian if you're listening i like this one dave d says i'm 60 and recall watching apollo 11 land on the moon and the astronauts stepping off the ladder onto the moon dad was slack jawed mom was in tears wow i think we're going to get back there we've seen a lot of talk and designs and renders from all over the place and the moon and you know i i think that this is a sign that we will be back there well yeah i mean like we we've got we've gotten so wrapped up i think in in the enormity of the day that i think a lot of us have and i know michael i saw a tweet from you earlier on this have have kinda it's kind of not in our head that you know this is the moonship yeah this is our return to the moon right here for everything else that it is it's our return to the moon in a few years i mean so seeing it fully stacked and going through fit checks like this is a huge milestone for the artemis program as well i mean let's just really make sure that's out there because people always ask us oh osols versus starship and it's not sls versus starship it's sls working with starship right right now to get that capability back as quickly as possible and that's part of what we're seeing here um as well i mean it's just incredible um and stephen i just got to throw this that stephen bradshaw 68 canadian um super chat saying when i was 10 years old i watched the lem undock from the crew module of apollo 11 with my family on a little 12 inch black and white tv set space flight has never ceased to be a wonderful experience exactly and now you're watching it on a much bigger screen probably mounted to a wall uh connected to something that didn't exist back then oh my god or you're watching it on your phone which has more computing power than the lam did that yeah [Laughter] which i just absolutely love um for all of it um and don brown saying as a child in the 60s and seeing the apollos and the excitement around it this has brought that feeling back now in my 60s it's amazing the excitement that this brings back yeah i'm just i'm so glad that you know people of all ages are excited about this it is it is i mean i mean i remember in one of our streams uh one of our launch streams um for a spacex flight back in ooh july i think it was um where we had or maybe it was one of our starship streams but we had um there was like a three-year-old or a four-year-old that was watching along and asking questions through through their dad um to us and getting their questions answered and that was that was just so cool like um because i think that was a stream where like we mentioned it and then someone said they were in their 90s watching um so like we had we had an incredible spread there um of of ages of people who just found this fascinating but i i'll never forget that day like because that was so so cool being able to answer uh that that kid's questions live on air for them ears going back down just to make sure incredible oh stuart young it was my seventh birthday when the first saturn v was fully integrated i had lost hope of seeing humanity going beyond low earth orbit before spacex thanks [Laughter] it was 7 56 i believe 7 56 a.m cdt was touched down so just over an hour wow yeah yeah there you go absolutely incredible there is another one here too another message here just as starship is going up see it goes up much faster than it comes down it does it does um uh chuck rogers saying i was born the month before sputnik i remember watching mercury in my life we will go from that to mars amazing yes that is yeah that is amazing and i mean i think there are so many people who are in the same boat that i was in as we watch starship being de-stacked now about an hour after it was fully stacked um as you know if you had asked me a decade ago in 2011 will there be humans on mars in your lifetime and i was i was in my early 20s at that point um my answer would have been i hope in my early 20s my answer would have been i hope in 2011. and now it's not yes it's oh yes and hopefully by the end of the decade you know you know if they're if they're behind their own schedule um you know um and i just think that's incredible like that it's it's not an if it's it's it's a when in our lifetime so much more credible yeah yeah and i mean don't get me wrong there's still a lot to do i mean do not get me wrong this is not tomorrow this is i mean this there's still a lot to do for that to come to fruition but but the fact that it's not an amorphous abstract presentation that's 40 years away is incredible there he goes they're not not wasting any time here y'all remember the winds out there pick up they like the early morning launches because the winds are calmer and as you get more literally solar energy down there making pressure differentials on the surface of the earth you start to get these higher and higher winds and so the more you sort of delay the more you're going to get to winds that could cause a problem remember this looks small but this is way up in the air this is a massive starship and it is hundreds of feet high it is way up there i think we calculated like the launch table where it mounts is about 30 meters off the ground and then the booster itself is another 68 meters and that's what starship is stacked on so starship is stacked like 98 meters above the ground right now yeah yep like almost 300 feet and that crane that holds it up there i mean elon said what was it uh the booster was he talking about the booster the starship there was 200 tons uh the booster is 160 times 160. yeah it's it's somewhere between 100 he was never he never really got pinned down on it uh yeah somewhere between 160 and 200 yeah but it's a lot and the starship is over 100 tons as well if i had to guess right so just getting that back look at the clouds in the background mary's shot don't know what the time lapse of this is going to look like it's going to be amazing it's going to be amazing yeah and especially with it like it was only being stacked for an hour that you you know you probably just have it just play on through i don't know how much you speed those up typically but oh yeah yeah the the the stacking time lapse can be a stacking and de-stacking time yeah yeah exactly actually somebody in the chat said um it's not de-stacking it's stage separation stage separation nice yeah we'll get well given what elon said in that tim video that stage separation is basically like picture the stars starslink flip maneuver and you've got it for how these stages are going to separate um you're not far wrong yeah i know they just did it right just pop and then you pop twist and off you go but look at that an hour after stacking here it comes back down to the ground and zed uh thanks so much for the 50 um australian uh superchat saying thank you so much to the entire nasa space flight team and especially mary and all her stakeouts for continually providing the community with epic coverage content and even space banter greetings from melbourne australia well greetings indeed from uh multiple places around the united states i think all of us are spread out across all three of the continental time zones uh yep there are three of the continental time zones here um but thank you so much uh zed and paul boyanga with a 200 super chat um saying from an 85 yog thanks for the memories and hope for the future yeah thank you so much if i'm not a robot there was a people would do like a fifty dollars be like ah we're gonna break jack because i would just the amount important i still am i just often feel the unable express uh that speech but yeah yeah if there's ever a day broken your guys's support it's today i mean ev the number of insanely huge super chats coming through dollar dollars wait till we have in store i'm so excited future this isn't this isn't the end beginning remember y'all jack is out there in the field actually operating the left-hand uh camera there signal's a little bit tough but you could get a sentiment uh thank you all so much because the support that you bring is what makes this possible like jack thank you so much for that we did copy the vast majority of what you just said there so that is uh he says i am broken he just sent me a text saying i am broken is the gist there you go again folks what's going on i don't know if we need to update the upper left hand corner michael because it says starship stacking but now it's starship d stacking they have disconnected s20 from the top of booster 4. they're going to put it back down on the transport stand i would imagine which is hanging out down there still they stacked it up to the top we saw for the first time ever in history a full starship and super heavy stack the spaceship and the ride to space the booster for it completely together it's the first time that's ever been happened and it didn't just happen out in a field somewhere it happened on the actual orbital launch mount that is supposed to give this ship its first uh takeoff to orbit so we were watching that happening here and now with the potentially winds rising we know that it gets windy more windy out there we also know there's a lot of work to do as well we see them de-stacking ship 20 from the top of the booster they're going to put it back down on the ground hey i don't think there's a road closure for today but i don't think they're going to spend a lot of time with this stuff just hanging out at the launch site if they have work to be done i'm going to be watching the suborbital pads we know that booster 3 is already on suborbital pad a and suborbital pad b actually has the thrust simulators the thrust rams installed on it so something's got to give there either got to take booster 3 off of pad a or you got to take the thrust rams off of pad b or you got to take the engines out of the starship in order to take the starship over the pad for maybe a cryo test take the booster over to pad a for maybe a cryo test maybe you want to do a static fire you got to take the rams out and put the starship there so you don't have the rams in the way whatever the process is in whatever spacex is going for they're not done you don't just stack it and declare victory and go home right there's still a lot of work to be done so that we can see these things fly to orbit so those are going to be the things to be looking at in the coming days i almost said the coming weeks and then i corrected myself because spacex to the coming days and maybe the right thing is really the coming hours um yeah maybe just keep an eye out on those suborbital pads because more testing needs to be done and we're either going to see some changes happening at the suborbital pads to make way for the starship or the booster if you don't see that happening it may very well be that they end up back over there in the shade at the high bay where workers will continue to do some work not sure exactly what the plan is but i can tell you what to be looking for i can definitely tell you what to be on the lookout for so we shall see like this comment from georgie clark turn off rewind there you go uh folks you are not uh seeing i i don't think dos or michael hit the wrong button or anything you are not just getting a rewind of what happened earlier [Laughter] what a mean trick that would be right all right we could have just time we can just time-lapse the footage and we'll get one of those boomerang shots you know like i'll say it's on social media it like plays fourth then it plays backwards and it plays four then plays backwards and we could just play this forwards and it'll do the back and forth again so yeah the cryo tank in the middle won't actually boomerang that'll be the tip off oh yeah that'll be the indicator i am once again watching my camera angles because it will be time for me to uh wrangle new angles shortly here wrinkle myself [Laughter] anybody else's face hurt i'm smiling so much not even on camera but i got a grin almost as much as starship yeah work out those cheek muscles uh david england with a generous 20 bucks saying hey guys can we get a side-by-side composite of the fully stacked starship with a saturn v um i would i dare say that that's out there somewhere already yeah i saw one of those floating around twitter yesterday i think there was also a blank space to the right of it with a label but uh yeah i think that exists we don't we don't have that ready to queue up here and show on screen but to the interwebs yeah there'd be multiple versions of that i would say i think that's one of the first things people think of once they see the fully stacked starship i like this andrew says you know how they used to display the big fish that fisherman's caught you know you get off the boat and you're back at the dock and you're holding up the fish yeah this looks like that yeah the starship that didn't get away i hope they don't take it back and try to gut it and clean it and fillet it yeah well is this more like a catch and release kind of situation release there you go we're gonna raise it in captivity and then we're gonna release it into the wild uh orbit i guess yeah and i'm gonna i'm gonna reiterate folks uh earlier we saw starship stacked all the way up on top i know people come and go i see the numbers going back up again but uh earlier we saw them stack ship starship all the way on top and now they are taking it back down again still work to be done you don't just put it up there as we were saying before not ready for launch this was not like stacking it up and oh go go go it's gonna it's time to launch there's still a lot of work to be done you're gonna see a lot of testing you're gonna see a lot of changes this was to make sure that if you took a starship and you put it on top of a booster that you put on top of the platform that you just installed on top of the orbital launch mount that it all fits together because now is the time to be correcting things if you have issues there right you don't want to oh well let's do statifiers and cryotests and all this other stuff oh no it doesn't fit now we're sort of backlogged this was to make sure that the work that they've completed there on the orbital launch mount is good to go do they need to fix anything or change anything and then they're going to release that booster and starship back over for more work before we're ready for orbit so we've been saying for a while this did not mean that we were launching now it doesn't mean we're launching next week we still have a lot of time before we're actually going to see this stack fly but this was a step in the right direction wouldn't it y'all yeah yeah and for everyone uh that was asking about like tiles and stuff and are they gonna uh put the put the rest of the tiles on while it's stacked well i guess we sort of have that answer now don't we and also seeing i saw a lot of questions earlier about when the launch was well you know this was just a stacking operation just sort of fit checks photo op and i'm sure they got great photos i know mary and jack have some great photos coming yeah 100 oh some of their photos have already been amazing yep yeah just out on twitter already oh yeah i'm looking at one from jack right now that's that's a great shot right yeah and i know a lot of people is asking about the launch date but there's still so much work to be done still so much to build at the orbital launch site still so much testing that needs to happen really don't have a a launch date for you right now it's a great question i know so many are asking uh but we really just don't don't know um there's still so much to do elon would tell you two weeks as he is one to do we'll tell you probably not less than 30 days and i don't think that the answer is going to be between those two i think the answer is going to be more than 30 days from now but that's uh my guess i shook the crystal ball and it just said really it's spacex we'll see [Laughter] it said check back in 30 minutes right exactly oh that's good i love it look at this all the tiles oh now see later on today when ian comes online we'll see if he did his homework part one of his homework and there's that part earlier we were talking about how you can you can see where they expect that plasma flow to go like behind the wing and so it kind of wraps a little further around the back side of the ship you got it oh i just have to read this one out mike alpha mike um with a superset saying i've been notifying my wife who's a teacher of each launch you guys are changing the course of young children's lives not to mention my own two little ones thank you that's awesome really appreciate thank you thank you i love stories like that we've gone back into like silently watching everything yeah yeah yeah i like this shot because jack's just sort of left it there and the entire booster this entire starship has just gone down through the frame and we're making it up to the uh the actual forward flaps now i was i paused for a second to try and see if i couldn't find some sort of catching or lifting mechanism like a hard point you know underneath the forward flaps that the arms may attach to i don't know if that's what we're seeing right there underneath where the forward flap attaches i'm not sure that's big enough is that something protruding out of there i see that it's obviously it's missing some uh tiles right there is there something actually sticking out right there i can't really tell it looks like some sort of structure it may be a thruster actually oh yeah it could be i don't know it looks like something's sticking off a little bit and that may be where that forward is right under the flap right under the ear yeah at the ear i like that [Laughter] yeah cause the because the the the like places where the arms would pick it up is further down right that's what i was looking for but i didn't i didn't see it sticking where is that where or is that where the arms are are planning to catch it now i don't know i don't know if it's it doesn't look like the same structure as on the booster oh yeah you know so i imagine it may be further down maybe it's not installed yet maybe there's just an open spot in the tps where something like that's going to go that was just sort of drawing my eye but the more i look at it go ahead sorry duh that would a solve the problem of thermal protection system closeouts that we've been talking about about how do you stack it and then close close out the thermal protection system for flight if there are little side attach points that survive atmospheric or entry yeah that's how you do it sorry that just totally clicked of all those questions we got yesterday um but also to go back to those questions from yesterday of how they do thermal protection system work the catch arm towers the catch arms could go up and down along the side of the vehicle and they work platforms as well yeah on the pad yeah i like it and so what we're talking about here y'all somewhere people in spacex are either going yep or yeah maybe maybe we should do that or that yes what we were talking about is you see here at the top where the green slings are attached to the nose cone of starship and there's six attach points up there that actually stick through the tiles you can see the missing tiles and so we were thinking before what are they going to do to thermally protect those attach points and it may be that those attach points don't exist maybe those are only for when the crane is doing it and when the actual tower the chopstick arms that elon called it when those are actually picking the starship up maybe these tps will just be clean and smooth up at the top and those attach points will be lowered down um on the side just like we see on the booster so that is a potential thing we may see that maybe the solution that we haven't uh seen in action yet just waiting for those tower arms to go up that's going to be a stream yeah oh man yeah yeah there is news report or ship 20 is expected to roll back to the production site during a road closure which was just posted from 11 30 a.m to 2 p.m central time today so as soon as they lower this down they are immediately going to secure it to the transport stand and take it back to that production site all right well there you go it took a field trip basically well there you go uh i guess that uh no what time was that road closure michael starting uh ten nine eight minutes from now i believe uh there it is oh no eleven thirty yeah eleven thirty eleven two okay so that's a couple hours um we will probably end up watching parts of that on starbase live at least the interim time we'll just we'll determine if we're gonna do another commentary stream or maybe it'll just be on starbase live we'll talk about that but uh yeah starbase live will definitely be live that's it's right there in the name that's why i named it starbase live because you know it's not starbase vod barbase pre-recorded no i don't understand so could you explain that a little a little more i like to name things like very human readable fashion so i've got like river cam and beach cam and danger cam like they just it makes sense and doesn't danger cam currently have the added on vacation in parentheses it's danger cam on vacation on vacation yes oh no mary's reporting in that there is uh some music being played yeah we don't have the license to play that music for you but apparently starships were meant to fly yeah and i'll leave it at that there was there was also a report not just on that one but there was also a report from earlier on that um uh take me to the moon yeah i don't know if that's the version they did either but there was definitely one that was played there yes wow it seems like we were just at the same point like two hours ago alex williamson saying i've watched spacex since they started trying to land falcon 9 while in high school and throughout all of starship and it's been amazing to see their rise to this point thanks for being here to show us it is our pleasure because even if you weren't here we would be here so it's nice to have some friends along the way definitely true yeah well i i mean i don't know if folks didn't show up and support us and all that sort of stuff it would be hard for us to do this sort of stuff so you know sort of juggling and said we'd be here but we we really wouldn't we might not yeah opportunity to cover this for y'all if y'all didn't show up it's it's really true and joe fisher saying after i watched this i chose to look at photos willed to me by my namesake grandfather of discovery and challenger part of a collection by nasa i would never have thought to be here at 18. yeah it is uh it's going at a breakneck pace and it's it's pretty awesome that this is sort of what we've come to expect here we go we're getting pretty close to the ground i mean it looks close i guess it's probably uh 10 or 20 meters off the ground so well i guess okay so the the orbital uh launch platform is about 30 meters so we're probably looking at about 10 or 15 meters right here again i i will reiterate you can see in the upper left hand corner it says starship d stacking we've already seen starship all the way up on the top of booster 4 and they are bringing it back down again like michael just said a road closure has popped up official word from the county that there is a road closure from 11 30. so about two hours from now central standard or central daylight time we start we're still in and it looks like starship is going to be moseying on back to the barn to get some more work done that 1.7 mile drive back up highway 4 because they're not done like i said you don't just leave it up there and declare victory and fly a flag and no we're not on the moon yet we're not in orbit yet we're not on mars yet it's not time to rest so a huge accomplishment definitely a step towards the step forward that is needed but it's not the end of the game yeah that's right it slowly rolls back around yup needs ground orientation now and one thing people were pointing out is how the up towards the top just below the nose cone the the new tiles that were installed last night they look a lot more uniform than the rest of the titles you know they're they seem to all be the same shade of black i wonder if that's just because they all came in on the same batch and were thrown up real quick it might be yeah oh here we go here we go touchdown number two of the day underway we're gonna do our like thing again i can't like it again no but yeah because people would i mean what are they gonna do yeah do that right don't do that yeah yeah steve don't say that okay all right backing off rewind yeah let's do that rewind thing and then we'll yeah right yeah so again the workers guiding the hard points you can see the spot with no tiles there and then you see the little clampy bits sort of sticking up from the transport stand that transport stand is a special it's almost like an adapter that goes between the modular transporters those self-propelled modular transporters if you ever hear us roll off spmt self-propelled modular transporters the spmt and they're going to put the starship on the adapter so that they can walk it back home it looks like i don't really know what's back yeah they literally walk it you're exactly right i guess maybe not walking back to its home um walking back to its birthplace i don't know something like that going back to it's going back to the nursery yeah the nursery right the nest there you go yeah yeah the nest yeah the starship nest the aviary since they fly there we go there you go the aviary things continuing to go down there so they'll pause for a little bit we'll see it rotate some and they'll get it aligned that's a normal thing just attach like an auxiliary uh ratchet or come along or something like there give them a little bit more control over it than the long tag lines remember that one really long line or i just leave the tag i don't i i don't know if the two things are interchangeable but uh that was attached when it was all the way up at the top and somebody's back there frantically reeling it right it's 300 plus feet of rope or cord or line or whatever the right terminology there is and you can see here that after an eventful day starship is preparing to return to its place of comfort on its ground stand as we continue to watch its booster out in the wild there on the sorry i don't know why it's nice nature documentary there but you know like so it's like lisa was in golf mode where you like whispering or that yes yeah can we golf we all do finger golf club all i heard was golf golf clap yeah golf golf clap there but i mean when this goes down it would sort of be like a hole in one just a very slow hole if you're not careful we're gonna start to get into happy gilmore references so yeah it looks like it's almost aligned there if that clamp that we see front and center is also going to go into that untiled portion there i guess you can actually see the little indention there it's like a hardpoint it actually looks a little thicker if you look at it it looks like it's designed to carry some load yes thank you chat i appreciate oh what did i miss the happy gilmore references ship 20 is getting really good at landing with precision nice practice makes perfect you know what's crazy is you know this is this is their first time doing a full stack and d stack and it's actually pretty fast i'm not sure i would imagine it being all that much faster when the when they actually are operational you know because it's still going to have to be sort of a slow process making sure that everything's lined up perfectly but you know an hour from going from lift to actually mating that's not that bad almost down it looks like yep pretty much lined up there yeah you can see those two massive orange uh counterweights in the foreground the orange and yellow those are literally just uh huge blocks of steel they can use them for crane counterweights as well you actually see some on the back of the 5275 there those gray blocks on the back of the yellow crane on the left those are crane counterweights you can add or remove weight depending on how much load you want the crane to be able to handle and the same thing here these counterweights they actually put it on the transporter that spmt and that brings the center of mass of the entire contraption down lower so that's something we see whenever they're gonna move this thing the pressurization equipment is on the far side here because we've got the tiled side this way and so we also see them hook up lines and hoses to it to maintain the pressure while they're moving it they'll have like a gin set and stuff like that on the back sort of hyper focused on this it looks like waiting for it to touch down i saw a couple people asking uh why they destacked and some people asking what happened they just got here so yeah as expected yeah as expected yeah to risk sounding uh repetitive but you know for those that have been here all morning but you know just to make sure everybody is kind of on the same page they did stack starship on top of super heavy and uh our understanding is it was just a fit check and wonderful photo op and now they're bringing it back down there's still more work to do so this isn't a sign that something went wrong uh we think that this is nominal for what they planned on doing today yep absolutely is this i know so many people got so excited oh they installed all the raptors in one night and oh look they've got all the engines on the starship and you know all these things everybody's so excited i i think it wasn't really reasonable to say that that ship was ready to fly so i know so many people we've been sort of swimming upstream against this everybody's so excited oh confirmed launch on august 5th that was yesterday um yeah they were not stacking it here to actually fly the thing they were doing these tech checks so that they can find a problem now instead of waiting for a month or whatever we haven't seen him do a a cryo test on booster 4. we haven't seen him do a cryo test on ship 20. we haven't seen him do static fires on any of these engines some of them have been static fired up at mcgregor so they do test the engines in advance but there may be engine swaps that happen some of these engines might not even be engines they're going to fly with this was to say we put it together we stacked it up there we know now that we don't we need to make these changes to the table or the platform or whatever but there's still a lot of work i know people wanted it to fly in good grief constantly oh it's happening oh right now oh confirmed lunch in august or you know whatever and there is still a lot of work to be done before we're going to actually see this fly i don't want to be the guy to stomp on anybody's balloon or anything but it really is a lot of work and we know what the process looks like and we know the tests that they go through and i think i i mean i need to see a cryo test of s20 with all these tiles on it and then after the cryo test i want to count the tiles well i don't want to count the tiles again i want to count no that's missing tiles that's easy yeah you can count the tiles i'll count the missing tiles oh there you go but there's there's still a lot of work to be done there really is still a lot of work to be done yeah you don't want to cryo this thing up and then have thermal expansion or contraction pop tiles off right you need to test it with this many tiles all the new joints and stuff like that that they've designed the special tiles on the flaps you can see there's some curve tiles over there where the joints actually meet the wing roots there there's still things that need to be tested so we will see some of those maybe less testing than i think because spacex right maybe they will get one and say that's good we're good to go we don't need to spend three months on this let's make progress but there is still an awful lot of work to be done like sort of cover that there steve i know it's i don't think so we're excited yeah yeah i think so yeah and we're just as excited but we also uh we want to live in reality and not get too ahead of ourselves thinking that it's about to happen especially because we're trying to deliver as much factual information to you as as we can so we don't want to don't want to make you think that it's about to happen when yep we know that it's not yep we we don't want to say oh gosh potential launch i'll try to get a clickbait or whatever that's not how we roll that is definitely not how we roll and hey sometimes we get bit too we're like oh they're gonna lift it and then weather or the wind or something like that like there we're not trying to click bait anybody we're using the best information we have and sometimes even spacex is going for it but then something stops that from happening like we saw with the thunderstorms rolling through the other day so a hundred percent we don't want to be here and try to oh yeah yeah everybody oh it may launch tomorrow make sure you keep an eye on starbase live or you'll miss it launching it could launch any second like come on really seriously that's not how a nasa space flight is so i think steven we better start uh hitting some of the chats that we didn't get shortly here i have a feeling we're going to turn everybody over to starbase live yeah not quite touched down yet we'll sing it out when we when we do but let's uh let's get some of those messages in if you could yeah yeah let's do it um oh you know what i think i saw why you uh went into the wild mode the commentary of the yes delta v with that 20 super chat yeah thanks delta v we appreciate that um let's see uh steve shoot said thank you uh thanks for all you're doing guys it looks like they're bringing ship off the booster to finish the tps application and run separate static fires for the arvax and gimballed raptors yeah you could be right about that one we assume that uh they've got a full testing regime coming up uh we got some new members michael thompson russell sutton um eddie sildana eldeweymd uh let's see uh golden boy a while back wanted to wanted us to clarify something uh please correct the earlier statement saying the smaller gsc tanks are for the methane everyone is going to quote that forever okay yeah the our understanding is that the smaller tanks are the oxygen tanks there's just more of them i think which we talked about right when we said it yeah yeah yeah yeah we did correct there yeah i think yeah i talked about that yeah right yeah so i guess maybe some people just missed uh missed that whenever we corrected that uh mark roberts new membership all these people helping us out we appreciate your your support for sure uh steve baker john depker podgrone john w rg merkel uh chris jones new membership dave course all these new members welcome to the clan here the whole gang's here yeah this space family or whatever i do right space fam yeah space fam um and i i actually had some questions that i queued up like at the very beginning but i think most of them have been answered yeah um yeah so i don't know if i need to get to those uh but all these so generous people out out there that are throwing money and helping us out um there oh there was a 50 one i think that that we missed uh what are the chances for launching today i think we've answered that um all right about within the next seven days yeah i'm not expecting uh to see any launches in the next week i've got a full testing regime to go through um [Music] casey edwards wanted to do a shout out to my colleague george who is absolutely watching this right now so george i hope you're if you you know if you know who casey edwards is and your name is george then that's for you viewers we'll take it yeah and lots of people just saying thanks for all the work you do in these broadcasts thank you thank you all so much it's a it's a team effort again y'all the the scroll bar in our interface where we pull some of y'all's comments and questions and stuff like this scroll bar is tiny six pixels it's hard to click on actually it's hard to grab it yeah and uh we appreciate your support across the board all the super chats we never are able to read all of them but uh your support is why we're able to keep doing this and it's not just the super chats the folks that are part of the membership program you know you're doing the monthly thing there that's huge for us as well i know that it doesn't pop up something in chat every time you watch a stream or something but we don't forget about you we're able to keep this going because you all keep showing up people that bought stuff from the merch store on occasion that's the thing as well you know but you don't have to be spending money to be a part of this we don't do it that way we're glad of the people that can support and make it make this possible and enable us to keep it going but we don't say well you can't see this unless you give us five bucks sorry you know put your nickel in the door at the tent or whatever that's not how it is we want everybody to be able to enjoy this so everybody who does and can support we appreciate you everybody who supports us just by showing up by chatting by asking questions by liking tweets thumbs upping the video subscribing to the channel whatever it is um everybody can be a part of this because we want everyone to experience what we're able to share here so i i gotta say it every time i know i probably sound like a broken record some of the fans who've been to lots and lots of streams it's like oh here he goes again with the spiel but it's not just a spiel it's true i want people to show up and i want people to be a part of this and i'm glad that everyone's able to be here i'll be quiet now sorry ah yeah yeah thank you very much everybody all the all the new members and all the super chats every like you said we're we're never going to be able to get to all of them i mean as soon as we started the stream the queue just started filling up and so we definitely we don't want you to think that we don't appreciate it because we absolutely do um yeah we need it i mean you know we need to have it because the stuff it's not free to do all this stuff you know it's it's time and effort and also physical things that actually cost money and you know go ahead this is really close to to being all the way down here um it just goes into the little clamps a little bit it doesn't go all the way down to those bolts and they have to be within an inch or two of this thing being down it looks like so very imminently go ahead it might be down it's hard to say it really is like there's like one or two black pixels i see yeah yeah it looks like the movement has stopped as long as they still have the hand on it you see the worker on the right hand side that still is sort of making physical contact with it i feel like it's well he just took his hand off just like always every one of these workers has an earpiece in listening to us podcast mode and as soon as i say oh this guy on the right hand side with the blue shirt he's like oh okay take my hand off where they're listening to me well if you rewind the stream a few hours i do think that it that it is down so yeah it does look like it has made contact with the transport stand there again expecting this to roll back a road closure posted by the county there this afternoon actually at 11 30 just under two hours from now and we expect right there you can see 11 30 a.m to 2 p.m that's central daylight time local time in boca chica there and that is coming up in under two hours now we have a feeling that it is going to make the journey back up to the production site you can see it in the background there starships 15 and 16 which whichever it will be rolling back towards the production site and more work to be done like i said all gas no brakes they say full send spacex is not declaring victory now because they know there's still a lot of work to be done i know that i uh i know that i just did the thing with the spiel and the super chats and stuff on the way out the door here folks you're gonna be able to keep watching we are gonna keep starbase live up all of our cameras that we've had over there i need to do maintenance on a couple of them so i'll be shuffling and shuffling them in and out but before we run i wanted to remind you if you want to show off your starship interest we have our merch store shop.nasaspaceflight.com all sorts of cool designs over there this is the most recent one we've put out to the uh cryptic message from starbase win is or win orbit starship if you want to read it there you got hats and shirts and mugs and different colors and stuff like that all sorts of sizes international shipping etc etc there are also some other cool designs the older designs wall art we have posters aerial photos sunrise shots if you want to have something to put on your wall there are some straight up crazy shots that mary has captured out there oh yeah you've got like art prints and posters and all sorts of different budgets there right mugs i just don't know where to go to click on mugs and the hats and the hoodies and you know oh the star base so we've got the starbase t-shirts let's see here hoodies and stuff like that the design that shows the skyline of starbase with all your favorite players the ships and hopper and the moon and the cranes and the high bay and everything we've got a couple different designs over in the store and if you hop over and you buy something show off your pride show off your interest confuse your co-workers or friends and families anger your wife because you have one more t-shirt that's going to go in the closet and you already have enough that's the boat that i'm in but uh getting something picking it up from the merch store over there click the link in chat that's another fantastic way to not only support us but have a little bit more to show for it than just memories um a shirt or something like that as well geez that sounded lame when i actually said it but anyways we appreciate all the support folks and for now i believe we're going to have y'all ending up over on starbase live you can continue watching all these camera feeds but let's go ahead and run around the horn really quickly on the stream today you heard the voice of chris gebhardt chris that was cool that really was it really was also steve maher steve thank you so much for sharing this with us glad to be here that was uh the next coolest thing to any flying test that was awesome absolutely uh michael baylor pulling the levers in the background today michael thank you as well no problem and then out there in the field bokeh chicago mary out there every single day not just doing the live streams not just tweeting photos but getting the footage for the daily video the dedication is real the original star base actually back before it was starbase bokuchika gal the photographer who actually not even photographer just interested person who was interested in seeing what was going on and started taking pictures and sharing them so massive thanks to mary out there hey jack beyer is in the field as well he went all the way over there from the west coast to assist so much going on we had to send more help to try and keep up with it but uh jack buyer as well and then back here in the studio my name is john galloway for nasa space flight if you're watching over on twitch you may know me as das but we're gonna go ahead and leave you with the same views on starbase live so that you can continue to watch what's going on most likely this afternoon we're gonna keep the coverage going right there on starbase live so that you can see the roll out or the roll back or the roll in i'm not sure which way to call it but it'll be right there on starbase live links over there in chat and i believe for now we're clear to spool down aren't we all i think we are all right well we'll see you over on starbase live nerds thanks for watching with us you

Channel: NASASpaceflight

Views: 2,794,424

Keywords: spacex, starship, boca chica, testing, bocachicagal, live, SN5, hop, launch, success

Id: 4B2_dfvRZ4M

Length: 196min 34sec (11794 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 06 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/krofax]

Booster 4, Starship 20, plus Elon tweeted instead of 70m they had to cut the booster's height down to 69.

Pretty sure it's all planned.

[u/tocksin]

Sure the spaceships are impressive. Also impressive is that crane. It's taller than the whole structure and can very precisely put the starship in place. It's a wonder unto itself. I would also be very anxious if I was the one operating it. I could do with a short video explaining the operation of it.

[u/BasedKhatri]

It is the most powerful rocket in the history of mankind

[u/steveblackimages]

Tiny, tiny people wrangling it. The scale is amazing...

[u/KopfSmertZz]

What surprises me most is that Starbase is one big construction site. It looks so far apart from what you expect to see, like Nasa. They just keep on building and building like its just a simple Lego kit instead of frontline space exploration. So amazing and awe inspiring!

[u/spastical-mackerel]

Holy shit those hydraulic lifts are nuts. In my few experiences in a lift they feel kinda sketchy at twenty feet off the ground.

[u/Amoesenbaer]

The pace at which they were building this thing was absolutely insane. Hope that this company did not burn through half of their staff.

[u/Smyrnaean]

The first primitive solid-fueled rockets were used in China in the early 13th century CE. That was seven centuries before Goddard's first liquid-fueled rocket was launched on March 16, 1926, by Robert Goddard.

That was only 95 years ago.

And now, the largest and most powerful rocketship ever built sits on a pad in Texas, the first of (hopefully) many of its kind. What a day!

[u/KopfSmertZz]

And how are they going to detach it from the crane? Incredible!