Falcon 9: SpaceX's Reusable Rocket

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[BrandonWelchAMA]

Now that you have done Falcon-9, you should follow it up with an episode about SpaceX's Starship!!!

[Real]

92 out of 103 is still ASTONISHING.
It also still doesn't get old to watch it land. The dual landing from Falcon Heavy is one the most incredible scenes I've seen in my 30 something years of life. Each time I see it, I cant help but smile.

[ZOB]

Landing one of these bad boys on an autonomous floating landing pad in the middle of the ocean is the most badass version of the bottle flip game possible.

[Evan_Case]

Keep on the aerospace kick! It's so fascinating.

[robhowarth]

I am 74 and was around and in junior school when the first Sputnik was launched. I remember clearly the day John Kennedy was shot. I remember Uri Gagarin and I remember all those people that continued to explore space. I remember the Vietnam war, with its shocking wastage of human life and resources, I remember the Profumo Affair and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the sinking and loss of the USS Thresher. I remember seeing the Nautilus gliding beneath the north pole and so much else I remember.
But more than anything, I will remember the exploits of Elon Musk for single-handedly realising the dawn of practical space flight. Virtually going bankrupt in the process, but still persisting doggedly, and defying the critics.time and time again !
Seldom before in history has one person devoted their life and fortune for the ultimate benefit of the human race..
In the centuries that lie ahead, when many of us will be living on far - flung planets, the name of Elon Musk will be synonomous with space travel.
I will never forget the boyish looking man with the infectious grin, jumping in joy every time he takes another step forward .
Unaffected, compassionate towards people and often searching for words during interviews.
The world will remember the person who freed them from the chains of earth and in so doing, created a real future for everyone on this planet.
I have the most incredible amount of respect and admiration for Elon Musk ! Tomorrow the stars !
Thanks

[johntheux]

I'm eager to see a video on starship now!

[lorelbelli]

I think that "a shortfall of gravitas" deserves a side project video of it own

[michaelb]

The first time I heard about SpaceX and their plans, I chuckled and said they were crazy. Now I am amazed by each flight. It never grows old.

[ignitionfrn]

1:10 - Chapter 1 - Humble beginnings
1:55 - Chapter 2 - Money
3:05 - Mid roll ads
4:30 - Chapter 3 - The 1st reusable rocket
6:30 - Chapter 4 - Overall design
8:15 - Chapter 5 - Mission history
10:35 - Chapter 6 - Future plans

[HansHenrikVestergaard]

The explosion shown at 8:31 is not of a Falcon 9, but the Falcon 9 Reusable Development Vehicle (F9R). The failed launch of the Falcon 9 was the CRS-7 mission.

[alexanderkenway]

Not the first rocket to do VTVL but the first, and currently only, *orbital* class rocket to do so. That's a very huge distinction

[lvphhsl]

OMG been waiting so long for this. Do Starship when it's operational and flying payloads. Starbase is certainly a Megaproject :)

[ingenuity]

6:48 are you sure 549 tons translates to 50, 000 kgs? 1 metric ton is 1000 kgs, making it 50 not 549 tons and considering that the Saturn V is properly labelled as 3 million kgs for its 3.1k tons, I'm pretty sure this is a typo

[Kyle-qdsy]

You can just feel the pain on Simon’s face when he mentions anything Star Wars related

[lovehatecomments]

As thoroughly researched your work is Simon, I have to say I was thinking you might make a small error or two given all the tiny details with SpaceX's space-flight projects. But like textbook, you nailed every single bit of info here. Great quick video summarizing SpaceX and their Falcon series development + future plans. Thanks for covering this!

I have been following all of their R&D + testing & launches quite closely for years. Fascinating stuff. I hope you will soon do a video about their Starship+Heavy Booster powered by their new Raptor engines(currently under testing). Along with videos of their giant Orbital Launch Platform in Boca Chica, Texas with the crazy Mechazilla chopsticks. A test flight to orbit is expected soon. It will be the largest and most powerful rocket in many aspects, ever made and flown by man. Just the Starship SN prototype test flights are worthy of a separate video.

[mho...]

Seeing the 2 Boosters Landing together for the first time, was one of the most beautiful things in the last decades!

[Bdude]

I'd love to see a video about the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah. It's the largest open pit mine in the world, they've been digging there for over 100 years. It's truly astonishingly big to see in person

[jdgindustries]

How about a video on the Vehicle Assembly Building... It's allowed Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, all Shuttle Missions, and now the forth-coming Space Launch System to happen.

Edit: I won't cover up my mistakes by editing them out of existence... Yes, I was wrong, the VAB wasn't completed until the middle of the Apollo project. While the VAB may not have provided physical assistance to the first two programs, it did help justify them, as (especially Gemini) were stepping stones towards the moon landings. However, without the resources that the VAB provided, Apollo would have been decades longer to accomplish, if at all possible.

[topsecret]

0:46 you completely messed this up. SpaceX did not launch the most amount of payloads for a rocket family on January 24, 2021, nor launched at 143 launches on that date either. On that date, it launched, by far, the most amount of satellites on a single launch, which was 143 satellites.

[amaccama]

The numbers involved are pretty effing impressive which ever way you look at it.