Flight 5 Starship Return, Incredible Starship Fire, and FAA Drama!

Welcome back my friends. I’ve got lots of excitement for you this week. Among the huge updates around Starbase we finally have fire once again. The Flight 5 Starship Return, Incredible Starship Fire, and FAA Drama! The incredible Polaris Dawn mission is wrapped up, and the Rocket Lab Electron roaring into the sky too. Once again, a bunch to cover today.

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[Andrewd]

I spent my career in aviation. The FAA’s motto has always been “We’re not happy until you’re not happy.”

[skitzowombat]

Hi matey, USA needs to create a new arm of faa or a new space launch only regulator. If they think it's hectic now, wait until all space companies are launching weekly. That is the way it's moving, too. They are used to running on an NASA time line wich is usually years not months. It needs to get sorted before things go wrong when they are overloaded with requests in future.

[ridinghigh]

Space is hard!!! And the FAA is here to make sure that never changes!!!

[frank]

I have been following the space race off and on since the beginning when I was a kid back in the 50's mostly just seeing the launch and recoveries and not seeing all the things involved in making it all happen. There is so much involved to get there it is mind blowing. Much thanks to Marcus and the many others that show and explain the many things involved in making it all happen. The details and expense of it all is amazing, thanks Marcus.

[ryobiraider]

It's great that they're showing some love to the Starhopper. I can totally see it becoming a nostalgic exhibit in the SpaceX museum someday.

[derkatzenfuerst]

I really love these summaries. No bullshit, no clickbait and all the important infos on the space industry.
Keep up the amazing work!

[AlexSchendel]

1:03 I like how the worker cuts the panel off and it just falls and he stops working and looks down at it for several seconds like he didn't mean to have it fall all the way down haha.

[Stumpy]

Marcus, you're the original, imo, and your enthusiasm for the topic is always evident, even when the week was boring or you're not full health. Your coverage of all of the launch world is appreciated and I look forward to it as part of my weekend relaxation schedule.

[PatriceBoivin]

Companies funding the FAA would cause an ethical dilemma as the FAA would start seeing the organizations it audits as its benefactors. Not good when it's about audits and applying laws and safety protocols.

[GntlTch]

Marcus, I would like to reiterate acknowledgement and appreciation not only for the excellent, impressive and informative weekly videos but especially for your consistent acknowledgement and appreciation (and links!), for all your sources and community resources. I wish half the other YouTubers were half as diligent as you in referencing their lifeblood sources.

[jeffseng]

I really loved the world coming together to play music. What a cool way to test equipment.

[richardzeitz]

I was just reading Arthur C. Clarke's wonderful nonfiction book, The Promise of Space. He extols the virtues of geosynchronous orbits and goes an about all the uses to which it will be put. And he talks about a whole bunch of other stuff that is everyday business and industry. I don't think he mentioned private space travel, tho'. I HIGHLY recommend that book as a glimpse of how the future looked to forwards looking people back in the 1960s and '70s. I was a kid when my grandfather gave me that book in 1974 and it blew my mind. Now the space news you cover that's really happening blows my mind! Good job!

[joelsmith]

Appreciate you guys’ care in distinguishing between speculation and demonstrable facts. Thanks.

[StephenBoyd]

Star Hopper was 5 years ago!! Wow, how time has flown.

[christheswiss]

I look forward to the newest video from Marcus House EVERY week, until it magically pops up every Saturday. Thank you! 👏👏

[pahtar]

A mobile launch mount makes a great deal of sense. It allows SpaceX to remove it after each launch, inspect and repair damage at the tower, and replace it with another. They can then move the used mount to somewhere they can thoroughly inspect, repair, and test it before reuse. They could then have at least three mounts so there's always one ready to go even if one has to be taken out of service for major repairs. It also allows upgrades to be done without interrupting activities at the tower.

[derekwood]

Saturday isn't Saturday without an MH roundup. The problem with safety paperwork is if you trim anything and then there's a fatal accident, who takes the blame?... which is why no one has ANY incentive in trimming this bloat down to size. We also have a problem with regulations solutionising. When they do that it causes no end of problems because if you want to do anything in a new way it needs a ton of oversight. If regulations are written based on performance, then you "just" prove you do indeed have sufficient performance and you're good.. no need to go to great lengths to explain why you're not doing things the "approved" way. (been there done that... Solutionising is something an external body could directly search for and weed out. That really could make a difference.

[orrinkelso]

After working for the FAA for almost 24 years, it is hard for me to take the FAA side in this discussion. They are a huge bureaucracy that moves at a snails pace. And I wonder why they are involved in so much of Space X's business.Why isn't NASA the agency that handles these things?

[officialwildcardadventures]

It should take less time to do the paperwork to launch a rocket than it does to build the actual rocket. 😂

[brucebennett]

The key problem with the FAA funding coming from companies they oversee is that money flow controls things you need to be independent about...