NSF Live: Starship status update from Boca Chica, Texas

On this week's show, we will be answering your questions about the latest news in spaceflight.

[timothyward]

i missed the live stream today, but thank you guys and gal, Mary you are amazing. thank you for getting on the mic today.

[devlinwalters]

Cheers Mary and the large number of people dedicated to our NSF channel.You help us all become more knowledgeable

[rlk]

I really appreciate the comments on the whole process. I used to watch the Apollo flight take off when I was much younger.

[mikeupton]

Mary plus all the SpaceX scribes and videographers needs to have a documentry about THEM.
You all are not just recorders and reporters of the birth of true sustained spacefaring. But you are all part of the history. You are actually part of the story and I hope your all recognised in the reasonable future for your contribution to keeping this amazing chapter in the public view. Well done!

[jessicakirsh]

Mary - you make my world 🌎 go round! Thanks for representing women in the space community!

[jason.stevens]

Yooo we got to hear what Mary sounds like!!

[skm]

Can’t wait till we get a full orbital flight :)

[Andy-op]

Mary you do an awesome up the great work gal

[DBumbleB]

By putting heat shield tiles on the top side of the belly flop, they can see how just the ascent phase affected the tiles. Then when you recover a vehicle, you can compare the sides and see if you have an adhesion problem from just going up or from also coming down.

[AnotherGlenn]

Great video. Mary. TY TY Big hugs. I'll take you out on the town, once I get security clearance. . great stuff. Always amazed. These videos keep getting better.

[topsecret]

Funny as hell to see that the flap folds so slowly these guys don’t even notice it. Such a hilarious troll. They were doing that before the camera change.

[davidroberts]

Hi 🙋‍♂️ guys and Mary yes 👍 it’s nice 👍 to hear Mary’s voice great 👍 video guys and Mary 🚀❤️🇬🇧👍David

[randomphil]

I was looking forward to the proper NSF News show this week due to having the green run from SLS etc. I wanted you guys to chat about after it had happened. Not sure why you decided to do an only Starship show when nothing much has changed.

[johnbecker]

I can see a benefit to doing a destructive inspection, to acquire if any stress damage that is not readily visible.

[almcgeary]

Thank you Mary for all your hard work.
Much appreciated.
From Canada.

[davidhall]

How the hell can this be live if it was streamed a week ago!?!?

[glennrmarks]

Heatshield tiles on the wrong side of flaps - maybe someone just made a mistake and at this point in the testing, it doesn't really matter?

[absolutelynotLily]

At the beginning of the stream was the first time I ever heard Mary!

[rayturner]

They need a accumulators at the engines inlets plumbing.
Maybe could put in the down stand pipe to lower dome.
They could calculate using Bernoullis principles. Could be as simple as a plumbing modification. No pumps.

[johnvdlaar]

@Nasaspaceflight The "Tankzilla" crane should be configurable up to 600 meter and 600 ton. Shouldn't it be capable of stacking Starship on to the booster on the OLP?