Blastoff! SpaceX Starship launches to space on 3rd integrated test flight

Credit: SpaceX

[nathanmasi]

Am not ashamed to admit that watching spacex reach this milestone with starship brought a tear to my eye...

[rconger]

Am an old man.
Hearing those young people chant the count-down reminds me of when I was young during the Apollo program !

What a thrill!

[jupiterbjy]

No long boring fillers, just directly to countdown, just what I wanted!

[gwcrispi]

Everyone in the world wants to see that booster hit the ocean at 1100 KPH.

[chartphred]

I bet that splat from the booster hitting the ocean at speed would have been phenomenal, video footage of that alone would be gold

[bwnco]

I watch the shepherd launch when I was like 4 years old with my grandma and now to see this I get chills and tears every time I see this it blows me away❤❤❤

[davewarrender]

I'm old enough to remember watching the first shuttle launch and the appolo launch on an old reel to reel, seeing this footage was excellent.

[lsbrad]

It appears that Earth is indeed round. Sorry, flat earthers. 🤷‍♂️

[buliameenoladayo]

This crop of engineers at SpaceX should be immortalized in the Golden book of history . You guys are super earthlings. Mad respect to you.

[eurojackpotter]

The improvement was extreme. The flight was incredible. The re-entry footage is unbelievable.

[Maky-voqs]

Magnificent test flight, that plasma during re entry was amazing.

[LahrySibley]

I was there to watch it go up. I've seen all 3 of them launch. Just an incredible thing to take in. Love it.

[graysoceanworld]

This happened while I was in class . It was much better than test flights 1 and 2! I thought the ship did not survive the test flight until I saw that the ship was still going. I even watched the ship reenter the atmosphere and I was super excited!

[DailyInsiderTips]

Unbelievable. Great lessons to learn from this test. Nothing is impossible. Congrats SpaceX

[shawnbailey.parkie]

Simply amazing!! Great job Space X team!! What a big step forward from IFT-2!!

[scottstewart]

SpaceX flies and fails, fixes what fails, flies again, gets further along and fails, etc Lather, rinse, repeat until you get to the Moon and Mars. Refreshing and very effective.

[tombambauer]

That view seeing the ship flying away from the booster is epic.

[donsemo]

Thanks to Space X for renewing the public interest in space exploration. This is amazing to watch something like the Starship blast off, reach orbit and re-enter Earth atmosphere without a hitch.

[pencilmen]

Impressive progress.
It's possible that within 5-10 years we could get back to where we were in the 1960's

[ginagina]

Congratulations Starship.🎉 Happy Birthday SpaceX!!!🚀🎉