SpaceX Starship SN10 soars, lands for first time!

Credit: SpaceX

[kshepard]

I'm 72. Growing up, my generation always thought this type of spacecraft landing was about as likely as time travel. To experience both the pre-computer, pre-jet airplane age and the explosion of the fantastic aviation, computer, and AI breakthroughs has left me feeling like a lucky observer.

[vhonhernandez]

People at SpaceX "Please land, don't explode"

SN10: Yesn't

[BLKBRDD]

6:12 has to be one of the best videography shots I’ve ever seen

[perkins]

When it maneuver 45° for Touchdown it look like CGI it's incredible

[HowToSpacic]

“Yay it didn’t blow up”

SN10 after being safely on the ground for 10 minutes: "my work here is done, my brothers are waiting"

[catmandenny]

These new style rockets make those old 1950s movies look a lot more credible.

[SoirEkim]

I don’t know about anyone else so I’m speaking purely for myself. My adrenaline Spiked hard when StarShip did that landing engine relight maneuver. The pure excitement was exhilarating at best and I bet my feelings of joy are nothing compared to those working on this project. I have high hopes for them all. Thank you for your efforts, SpaceX team!

[raphaelbarry]

Stunning! If I hadn't have seen it on YT I would snicker and scoff but the camera angles are stellar and irrefutable. Bravo space X.

[mustangsandwich]

As an old aircraft design engineer I am blown away by this. What a tremendous advancement by the SN10 team of engineers! Amazing...

[Byteable]

6:12 - the shot on this angle looks like straight out of a video game.

[quintdegourd]

The filming of this is just a big achievement as the launch itself. Incredible precise focussing and aperture management.

[dansgroi]

I like the elements of a shuttle on reentry. It makes alot of sense. With better control. For the ship itself. The landings, still trip me out. The precision to do that. Is something to be 100 percent admired and appreciated.

[grvisuals]

SN 10: lands successfully 
SpaceX: “Mission success, we changed the world... later”
*explodes*

[TheNefastor]

I love that it looks exactly like a spaceship a kid would draw. Pointy end up, flamey end down, shiny, with big fins.

[markdavid]

Incredible achievement! I'm blown away by the sheer engineering advances of Space X. What an amazing demonstration of rocketry, navigation, computer controlled trajectory and engine thrust vectoring.

[divinusfilius]

It really looks like a bad prop from 1950 black and white scifi movie lol, amazing!!! So strange how it seems to stand still, because of how smoothly the camera is tracking its ascend.

[TheNefastor]

SN10 the over-achiever : it managed to land AND explode, providing even more engineering data than a mere successful landing.

[PaysWin]

How smart are the folks are that designed this rocket, and programmed its software? Hats off to the Team.

[glenzisko]

That was incredible to watch never thought I’d see rockets like that in my lifetime 👍

[LeeOLumbroso]

This is incredibly impressive, masterful, beautifully filmed and edited, “that” close to perfection, and brings me enthusiasm and joy, congratulations to all who made it possible !

As a kid growing up in Paris, we were encouraged by a teacher in 7th grade to turn on to “the ongoing Space Conquest”, it was 1963, in the early years, the first organized program Mercury was in progress. I filled 5 or 6 fat notebooks over 8 years with press clippings, photos, notes and compiled lists of my own!

I followed and “processed” Russian’missions as well, and the slower French progresses and of other secondary nations in these endeavours. I developped a lot of admiration for the NASA, my all-time favorites being the impressive Saturn V launcher, filmed up close slowly unfolding its checkered livery along the launch tower in an amazing deployment of roaring power of unseen proportions…. :)

And the whole Apollo program, a masterpiece with a so nifty and intricate flight plan of SM, Apollo and *the LEM* — Wo and behold — that I had carefully drawn and documented!

“Having said that”, and not one bit less empassionned at; 70 by “all that jazz” and stars in the eyes (+ 40 y. embedded in SF-land!)…

…I can now enjoy amazement of a new order of magnitude thanks to all those prowesses accomplished by SpaceX!

That titanesque engine burn sequence playing deftly with 1, 2 or 3 active modules is something else! So’s the flip, the cushioned flat fall, the flip back vertical and 5 kph soft landing on one engine.

Almost incredible that SpaceX has such efficient creativity in engineering and rate of operational success, significantly beyond great NASA’s rate of relevant projects and less sustained pace of advances, out of nimblenes in comparison, I’d say + a proven true dedication to excellence! 👌🏻 👏🏻 🌎 🚀