[4K] Watch SpaceX Catch A Starship Rocket From Space!!! #IFT5

[TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE] This is the fifth fully integrated full stack test flight of Starship and the mighty Super Heavy booster, the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly. It produces over twice as much thrust as the Saturn V that took humans to the moon.

The goal of the test is to get further along than IFT-4 in June, 2024. If all goes well, Starship will re-enter in the Indian Ocean about 65 minutes after it lifts off from Starbase, TX, on a suborbital trajectory. And perhaps more exciting, this will be the first time SpaceX will be attempting to catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower!

00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:30 - Q&A
01:35:40 - Prop Load
01:54:10 - SpaceX Stream Starts
02:24:23 - Liftoff!
02:27:00 - Stage Sep
02:30:30 - Entry / Landing
02:33:30 - Starship Orbital Insertion
02:35:00 - Q&A
03:10:20 - Replay & Reentry
03:30:00 - Starship Landing
03:34:40 - Replays & Q&A

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[carldietz]

I'm 67 and watched the Gemini flights, the Apolo moon flights, the space shuttle flights, and now the glorious SpaceX Falcon heavy booster recovery system and watched them catch the Starship booster, fantastic, bravo, well done!

[basb]

Boeing: “Spaceflights are hard”
SpaceX: “Hold my Booster”

[jamietodd]

They caught a _building_ with _another building!!!_

[primusro]

I think this is the biggest human achievement in the last 15-20 years. A skyscraper size booster fallen at 4k+ km/h through the skies and got smoothly capture by a crane. If you show this to someone from 20 years go, they would say it's a sci-fi movie. Amazing!!

[thomasbarrack]

That landing was incredible. I was literally sitting here slack-jawed just thinking about this moment in the scale of history.

[bayannirivera]

This was AMAZING. Me and the MIT Rocket Team were screaming in excitement as the Mechazilla arms caught the booster. It's so awesome that we get to live in this era!

[GibsonSGJKL]

My Roomba doesn't return to its dock that smoothly.

[hedleyfurio]

I am so chuffed to be alive at 67 and witness this awesome engineering . This is what can be done if humans apply themselves and work together for a common goal - Flipping Awesome by any measure - Thanks to all involved

[BackSquareOne]

Congrats to all the hard working folks at SpaceX. You have, once again, moved humanity forward.

[Helix]

Mr Miyagi upon Mechazilla-san catching the fly with the chopsticks: "Beginner's luck!"

[joebonomono]

This is the future I was promised 50 years ago.... Thank you SpaceX for delivering. Thanks Tim and Crew for coverage, thanks space fans for great comments, I'm so happy you all are involved and as thrilled as I am.

[thedarkside]

This is the kind of historical events I don't mind living through.

2:24:24 - T-10/Lift off,
2:25:36 - Max-Q,
2:27:04 - Beco//Hot staging,
2:29:18 - Hot staging separation,
2:30:27 - Raptors on fire,
2:30:58 - Booster landing burn,
2:31:13 - Catch up,
3:10:17//3:13:40//3:21:54 - Starship reentry,
3:23:42 - "GC, lock the doors",
3:30:03 - Starship landing burn/flip maneuver.

Thanks.

[douglasplachy]

Haven’t been this thrilled since I watched the Saturn V Apollo launches in grade school. Absolutely stunning what can be achieved by engineering. History has been made today. Thanks for your feed.

[VeronicaZDunbar]

I saw the Saturn V rockets take off on a black and white TV back then. Now I see the booster being caught by the chopsticks and Starship coming back in all this in colour via the internet. Great to experience all this.

[danielsaraolu]

I think this is the biggest human achievement to date EVER, the most important step so far towards making humans a multiplanetary spieces .

[Yogasefski]

When SHB came into frame I was convinced that it would collide with the tower. The fact everything worked perfectly is unbelievable. Congratulations to the team at SpaceX!

[schrodingerscat]

I watched the catch happen and still can hardly believe it, looked like something from an old scifi movie. I really thought it would be a near miss but it went absolutely perfectly and seemed to be really polished procedure considering it was a first attempt. SpaceX engineers just reaffirmed how far they are ahead of the competition, absolutely outstanding work, history has been made there today.

[johnkennedy]

I am a 58 year old man and space nut and watching this and your reaction ABSOLUTELY BLEW ME AWAY. I am tearing up at witnessing this!!!
These people at SpaceX are AMAZING

[PuckLokin]

Me looking to watch a recent rocket launch::
Bloomberg, no
CNN, no
Fox, hell no
MSNBC, no, where is it...
Ahh, Everyday Astronaut, there we are; quality reporting from a source I can trust 😊

[S-D]

Me: Trying to learn how to eat sushi with chopsticks
SpaceX: Catches 300 ton spaceship with chopsticks