SpaceX Starship SN8 Flight: The Mini Documentary

On launch day, as part of the @EverydayAstronaut livestream team, we used a joystick-controlled telescope and a series of high-speed cameras (including one of the most epic anamorphic shots ever) to record the moment of liftoff and track the rocket through its unbelievable belly-flop maneuver and landing attempt. So grateful to Tim, Gene and Rachel for an amazing adventure witnessing, documenting, and sharing this historic event. Everything has changed.

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Special thanks to Scott @Astronomy_Live and OPT telescopes for making one of these epic camera views possible! Also thanks to the team at Zcam. We love your high-speed cams.

Licensed music:
The main song (during the launch sequence) is “Gravitated” by Edgar Hopp.
The lighter/more ambient songs are “Cloudbursts" and "Morning Breaks" by David Celeste.

#Starship #SN8 #SpaceX

[AllisterCaine]

SpaceX managed to make a distorted wreck of stainless steel one of the most inspiring things i've ever seen.

[miltonmiller]

I am not even surprised that the coverage done by enthusiastic youtubers is so much better (technically and artistically) than what the media is doing.

[Whataboutit]

This has to be the most impressive documentary about SpaceX and Starship I have seen so far. Thank you for doing this! You deserve some kind of golden statue for this.

[AstronautDream]

"Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever." - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

[MarcusHouse]

Really inspiring. Thank you for making this!

[tefteulf]

I was 19 years old, traveling in my car to my military service, stationed in the north of Sweden, when I heard those famous words "one step..." sounding from the car radio. Now I'm 70, sitting with my computer at home, and watching in real time the SN8 rocket to the sky! It fills me with hope these difficult times!

[smallstars]

Rest In Pieces SN8, Raptor 42 and your two brothers, and bring on more bellyflops! The fact that SN8 bullseyed the landing pad with such an unprecedented skydiver maneuver promises successful landings coming soon!!!

[clark]

10:00 This shot of Elon walking through the wreckage of SN8 is going to be one of those pictures I remember for the rest of my life.

[JayDeanInCA]

Beutifully done... really captures the event. It is wonderful that these historic times are being so well documented

[hugoclarkin]

Water towers could always fly, it just took SpaceX to make it happen.

[thomasroberts]

Beautiful, just beautiful
Almost brought a tear to my eye
Damn I’m such a nerd

[reneeshtr]

This is a purely emotional and inspirational video. I am 33 and I promise that I WILL be there all the way from INDIA with my little daughter to witness the first launch of humans/cargo to MARS. Thank you, Elon.

[TheHeavenman]

"when something takes your breath away, you pretty much chase it " these are facts !

[remuz]

I'm a middle aged eastern european.. Who grew up in the Saljut and Mir age and were loving it... And watching this compilation, i can still dream. Thanks. I'll probably cry, when the first Starship reaches stable orbit :)

[m_my]

This took my breath away. Mankind is beginning to finally see glimpses of what’s over the horizon.

[dscalculia]

From other side of the world, its really nice to see other thing around on space x ground, not hard core zoom in parts. See it from more human eyes fills the bigger picture.

[balazsszabo]

Every time when a saw "her" falling down, fighting against all the odds and dying in the end I cry. Thats why I know a machine also can be a hero! And if its possible her name is SN8 for sure!
R.I.P our belowed one, you made history and planted the fire into many of our childs soul!

[spiffybilly]

This is incredible! SN8’s flight is something that I will never forget for as long as I live. I’m also studying to get a degree in aerospace engineering in hopes of being among the first humans on Mars. So seeing SN8 liftoff from the pad and execute 95% of her flight perfectly, knowing the final version of this rocket could one day take us to Mars, was so spectacular and brought tears to my eyes. This video beautifully captured what we were feeling that day. Well done, and thank you Cosmic Perspective and to everyone involved. 🚀

[RichardFrost]

I come back to this video to remember how far SpaceX has come - its Feb 2024 as we wait for Starship's full 3rd flight !! What an incredibly inspiring video!

[tonyholm]

When the falcon heavy boosters landed, i felt like this is the future, the future is happening now and i get to see it happen, it was a whirlwind of emotions, got tears in my eyes for the first time in 20 years except when my kids were born.

Now the future came to me again, I'm a vivid space/rocket fan and I feel pretty calm during most launches
Crew dragon etc, but when starship took off i felt butterflies and close to euphoria, the butterflies soon turned into a stone in my stomach, not knowing the flight profile or anything really, the engines shut down one by one and finally the last one turned off, seeing those RCS thrusters pushing the nose down and the "wings" turning around, i felt so excited and it was truly falling in style, no drama, just hanging there in the blue skye, then it passed the cloud layer and i instantly felt that the sensation of how fast starship was actually going, and clouds weren't that high that day.
Excitement turned into worry and anticipation, just waiting to see it do something to avoid crashing into the ground, and what felt like the last second the first and second engine started to produce flames and gimballed to a degree I've never seen and just flipped that 15 story high grain silo around like it was nothing, it was amazing.
But as we all know, green flames is bad,
engine rich exhaust and kaboom.
It was beautiful, second time I got tears in my eyes.
Elon and SpaceX is truly delivering what elon said, something to be happy and excited about.

Thank you.