Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎

Nature lover, entrepreneur, space and life enthusiast. A jack of all trades is a master of none, but still always better than a master of one. Founder, StarBnB.

[Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎 @rvander3526]

How cool is this! And the nod to the Norman Rockwell original!

[Stellar Vision @Xstellarvision]

Wendy the Welder

Original oil painting by Bryan Larsen 40 × 52 inches Private Commission for Stellar Vision

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Your Starship Flight travel video could look like this 🚀

[Wes @wmorrill3]

@trentsizemore Thanks for the feedback - shared this with some of the engineering team who worked hard on these small changes.

Our work is not done once the product ships, we are constantly listening to feedback and trying to make improvements both in hardware and software.

[Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎 @rvander3526]

@Erdayastronaut Agree with another comment. Honorable mention for reviving the program after a dismal few launches.

[Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎 @rvander3526]

@Griz LETS GOO

[Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎 @rvander3526]

@joeyigw :(

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[Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎 @rvander3526]

@JakubAdamo @cybertruck @TeslaFSDDoc No you can rotate the mounting plate

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I've been reflecting on the Starship program the last week and one thing has become obvious to me. SpaceX is enjoying the freedom to try and fail in a way they couldn't with Falcon 9.

Doing anything "experimental" on the Falcon 9 was risky because it was SpaceX's only source of income, it was their lifeline, their work horse. Making any tweaks to the Falcon 9 to try and land a booster back in the day was a delicate balance. Don't push the envelope too hard because it could lead to a failure of the primary mission (which did happen twice).

When SpaceX first landed a booster almost 10 years ago, they were fairly slow to refly and those first non "block 5" boosters were only capable of a couple of re-flights. This gave pause to some in the industry / community fearing all this reusability hype wasn't going to pan out.

But SpaceX learned from every landing attempt to develop their Block 5 Falcon 9 which has now gone on to have a single booster fly 30 missions. Absolutely unheard of.

Now imagine if SpaceX could've had the freedom to not worry about flying customer payloads to get data during Falcon 9's reusability campaign. Imagine if they could've tested engine out procedures or push booster reentry profiles, or try hot staging, or what have you.

This is the phase that SpaceX is in now during the Starship program. I know we hear the talking point of "today's payload is data" and it could seem like a gimmick or excuse even, but that's a freedom almost no rocket program has had before. To know you can just try things out, fly real life hardware, without bankrupting the company, is the ultimate development platform.

To be able to push engine out capabilities, remove heat shield tiles on purpose, test reentry profiles, have failures, have set backs, discover flaws, learn operations.

When people say things like "Starship hasn't even reached orbit yet" are completely missing the point. They're not just trying to reach orbit, they're trying to do something that's never been done, build a rapidly reusable rocket. A rocket that can land and refly. This has never been done before and honestly it's silly to think you COULD do something like this without trying some extreme things. That's what we're seeing today, and that's extremely exciting to me.

I can't wait to see version 3 of Starship fly because they've learned so many lessons already and they have a factory capable of making rockets at scale, and we just get to sit back and watch the cook. It's an exciting time to be alive.

[Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎 @rvander3526]

@Erdayastronaut @joerogan @joeroganhq @joerogan let both sides be heard. Get Tim on your show!!

[StarBnB @StarBnB_io]

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[Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎 @rvander3526]

@StarbaseBrewing So excited for these results.

[Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎 @rvander3526]

@TheRocketFuture @thejackbeyer @StarbaseBrewing Came here to ask the same thing lol. Must go

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[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I completely understand. When one of the biggest voices in the Spaceflight community is constantly politicizing things, all he’s really doing is dividing people. The same thing would happen is say Tim Cook or RJ Scaringe or any other CEO made their entire social presence about politics instead of their products, people who don’t agree will be turned off. That’s definitely not why I ever followed Elon, and as someone who’s here for Spaceflight, it very much distracts from what I care about. And that appears to translate to excitement about Spaceflight / specifically starship in general. I miss when I got on here to gleam details about Raptor of Starship and instead it feels like an uncle’s Facebook feed.

[Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎 @rvander3526]

@cybrtrkguy Cool. What app is that showing you the phantom drain?

[Ryan V 🚀🚘☀️🌎 @rvander3526]

@wmorrill3 @itskyleconner Not a fan personally, seems gimicky, and shouldn’t be default/unchangeable. But if it makes people happy to enable it, all power to them.