🔴 FULL REPLAY: SpaceX Rolls Ship 30 to the Launch Site | Starbase

SpaceX rolling S30 to the Orbital Launch Site. The ship will be flying on the fifth flight of Starship!
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[@MrKellymcilrath]

Thanks for the awesome Live stream Chris B!!! &thank you everyone at NSF!!

[@WilboBaggins-dm7ub]

Ace, great fun

[@williamgrimberg2510]

Seems like they would have a rail system instead of using a road to transport these rockets to the towers . Could be a lot quicker.

[@toadsauce8091]

I thought the same.

[@Bqd23]

I missed the live stream Chris. Was working. But have to say amazing stream. Keep up the great work NSF Team. Sounds like Sawyer has a bit of a cold. Feel better soon Sawyer. Keep up the great work and thanks to Chris, Roger and Sawyer.

[@iamaduckquack]

NASA won't care publicly if Starship is delayed because their own rocket will be delayed but it'll save them face to blame SX and Starship.

[@porkchop41]

Appears to be doing the Moonwalk!!

[@flippert0]

Who would have though a couple of years ago that rolling a big steel can down the road is something that people watch?

[@IvanRodriguez-tl2zr]

Are they going to fly with 2 heat shield tiles missing again? They might need more data from that area.

[@davidlewis9068]

That was interesting

[@johndunn3285]

DOD also doesn’t have to get a license from the FAA either, if they are in charge of the launch safety.

[@HankScally]

Is there a possibility that SPX could launch flight 5 early following the plan for flight 4, then fly flight 6 in November following the new flight plan?

[@spdaylight5]

Is the tank farm ready to support a launch?

[@darelvanderhoof6176]

It flies down the road because idiots are driving. "Oops, we dumped it," is not going to save the road supervisors butt.

[@stuartsulewski5569]

What’s up with the Construction equipment by the curve?

[@davidlewis9068]

It's rolling

[@MichaelCarriger]

As production on the booster and starship ramps up, where do they intend to park all of these hundreds of vehicles?? Not like a Telsa lot will do.

[@lronbutters5688]

I have Ludacris song Roll Out in my head in the background

[@UncleArthur44]

Did I see a couple of tiles missing?

[@SuperHeavyBooster12]

Hi Arthur

[@davidbarnes5953]

When do you think SpaceX will nuke StareShip. I would think it would be one ways to reduce the requirement for refueling for a moon mission. This would have to be a ship that would never come back to earth, but would be good for the Moon or Mars.

[@JonG-y7h]

I like turtles!!!! Turtles in space!!!!

[@woofyw.2703]

Go seahawks !!

[@garylcamp]

I wish SpaceX would just bite the bullet and go back to the old license permit and LAUNCH NOW. That would give them lots of repeatability data, test the heat shields, save the launch mount from possible destruction, and much more. And the 2nd tower would possibly be compete as a catch-only tower and we are set to go again immediately (in December?).

[@toadsauce8091]

But they wouldn’t be doing anything new. I thought they should’ve been attempting deploying Starlink or at least have the rack that deploys them installed. Should’ve been there on the 3rd launch.

[@SarahJSwift]

I was under the impression that because they've changed the design of both booster and ship, they've had to update the licence. Which means they'd have to launch the previous design vehicle. Do they have any?

[@johndunn3285]

As you will notice by looking at the FAA site, Starliner has never had a license issued, because NASA is overseeing the launch safety during the starliner test launches. Once it becomes certified to carry crew, and Boeing is able to also sell starliner use to private ventures, then FAA would start issuing license. Just an example of launch license issuance clarification

[@johndunn3285]

NASA doesn’t have to get a license from FAA

[@raydemos1181]

it is not that easy to just fly this thing without considering the environmental impact of say a booster crash on the beach with a giant fuel spill in the water on the beach, it seems like a risky area to be doing a catch, SpaceX should have a containment area set up for a abort of the booster to crash land to contain all the spilled fuel and other containments, there are birds crabs and fish and turtles to consider their well being

[@MaunderMaximum]

You're talking like it's an oil spill. Fuel is liquid methane and oxygen which would immediately boil off into the atmosphere. Not biologically damaging.

[@BCR81]

@@MaunderMaximumyou can easily tell when people don’t really know what they’re talking about

[@ralph100pct]

Onehundreadpersent

[@stuartsulewski5569]

Ok, ? Answered minutes later…

[@dadcooks1347]

Imagine being in the FAA now, what are you going to do, look back in 10 years time when they set foot on mars for the first time and say to your kids, I tried to stop that.🤔

[@rokadamlje5365]

Great proper british accent!

[@NASASpaceflight]

York-shire. York-shire :)

[@SarahJSwift]

​@NASASpaceflight not very Yorkshire, IMHO. Not enough of the accent coming through. Try Huddersfield West Yorkshire. Go, Terriers!!

[@NASASpaceflight]

@@SarahJSwift Heh, yeah - I only have to go to Leeds 20 miles down the A64 and notice the difference. South Yorkshire even more!

[@allanrose3661]

Catching a booster is far less risky than launching it in the first place because the fuel mass is a fraction of what it was. But since the FAA has no common sense and is obtuse as hell we have to go thru another shit load of red tape.

[@iamaduckquack]

Calm down, you'll give yourself an injury.

[@randallhoover2410]

Wrong lol Minnesota Vikings are the team to root for in the NFL

[@Josh-ri7hy]

Rad

[@dansmith3vdhrj]

The use of political power is what Elon does.

[@OmarAguirre-q2m]

Are they going to have a launch soon?