We made it. It’s hard to describe how much work, intensity, sweat (literal when walking down the ship ox tank or frustum), and passion went into S39 from my ship stage RE team and entire ship and booster teams and everyone else. It’s always this the amazes me on a successful launch like this, and this most of all: how I have the honor to witness and live alongside fellow humans and friends driven by their infinite desire, each one expressing it in the way that was given, either be a thermal fluids analyst, or a supply chain engineer, or a cook or a gnc engineer or a build engineer or a technician. Starships, and men, are meant to fly.
#BlueGhost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. Hope to have more shots to share soon! #BGM1
After flying to a peak altitude of ~90km, traveling more than 60 km downrange from Starbase, and completing its boostback burn and coast, Super Heavy ignited its landing burn less than 40 meters away from the preflight target.
The Raptor engines and booster guidance system precisely maneuvered the vehicle through the highest wind speeds yet for a Super Heavy landing burn.
Upgrades to the chopstick controls enabled them to start wider and move earlier for catch, expanding the envelope for booster landing burn trajectories.
The Sun is super active right now! ☀️ 💥 💥
The video below shows a series of flares that erupted over the past seven days… not counting another X-class flare that happened this morning!
NYC sending a text to residents to turn down the AC while leaving Times Square lit up is a great example of how the “individual responsibility to stop climate change” has been pushed to redirect our focus away from the corporations & failed government policy causing the most harm
Our image of evil Space Aliens derives not from imagined knowledge of how we think they will behave, but from actual knowledge of how we treat one another.