Starship | SN15 | High-Altitude Flight Test

On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, Starship serial number 15 (SN15) successfully completed SpaceX’s fifth high-altitude flight test of a Starship prototype from Starbase in Texas.
Similar to previous high-altitude flight tests of Starship, SN15 was powered through ascent by three Raptor engines, each shutting down in sequence prior to the vehicle reaching apogee - approximately 10 km in altitude. SN15 performed a propellant transition to the internal header tanks, which hold landing propellant, before reorienting itself for reentry and a controlled aerodynamic descent.
The Starship prototype descended under active aerodynamic control, accomplished by independent movement of two forward and two aft flaps on the vehicle. All four flaps were actuated by an onboard flight computer to control Starship’s attitude during flight and enabled precise landing at the intended location. SN15’s Raptor engines reignited as the vehicle performed the landing flip maneuver immediately before touching down for a nominal landing on the pad.
These test flights of Starship are all about improving our understanding and development of a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo on long-duration interplanetary flights, and help humanity return to the Moon, and travel to Mars and beyond.
Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on SN15’s successful flight and landing!

[@LashanR]

Launched a 50m high, building sized object 10km into the sky, belly flopped it back down to the ground, last second flip and ignite landing. Landed. Didn't explode. Absolutely unreal

[@alanmacification]

And one engine failed so it had to correct by using two engines all the way down . Nice catch!

[@antoniogodinho3360]

@@alanmacification it lands on 2engines not 3...check other launches

[@tobylii]

@@alanmacification it used a two engine landing burn on purpose. The third engine didn't fail

[@in-powered3392]

Maybe... Cuz it is

[@alexsanders7182]

@@in-powered3392 no reason to believe it isn't real

[@user-hp4vg3ek2y]

There is literally nothing cooler on this planet than the fact that we can not only do this, but we can just log into youtube and watch it. no big deal. Absolutely amazing.

[@fastica]

I remember watching the last space shuttle launches on live streaming.

[@christinalaw3375]

Starship has really stubby legs, hehuhehu.

[@tgmtf5963]

I love the fact that youtube was confounded by musk himslef

[@PureBlood777]

You know it’s amazing is flying to the moon in the 60s landing on the moon and coming back earth but in 2021 we’re barely learning how to land on earth lol

[@billieellish3285]

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[@aspireflight3288]

Im not crying, it's just rapid unscheduled eye lubrication.

[@bokamannu]

This comment is underrated.

[@pilotprogaming8202]

Spacex be like

[@Sam.m6]

RUEL. 🤔

[@40watt53]

nice

[@Eclipse-mk3hm]

Wait, ive seen this one before...

[@AlienVibesss]

It's been two and a half months. I remember screaming "YES!" and smacking my desk when it landed. Looking back at this now, I'm smiling and tearing up. This is just so amazing.

[@Bartzii]

since this flight, we learned a lot about cranes... miss the old times

[@mr.mustacheman7748]

"That's one small step for a grain silo, one giant leap for mankind."

[@victorr.cortes514]

Jajajaja 😆 A Grain Silo with flaps. At least they won't starve on Mars

[@bernardsarpong9820]

Lol

[@jblob5764]

This needs more likes 😂

[@christiancolossus5165]

LOL....nice

[@tae5216]

From SN5 to SN15, the amount of progress they have made is extraordinary.

[@RafiLerman]

You can hear the excitement in John’s voice. Congrats SpaceX and all those involved

[@usa-acountryoffreedomandju841]

SpaceX rule! Go Dogecoin! Starship good! It was cool! Elon Musk you will be the most successful and richest man on the planet and fly to Mars and the Moon on Startship! It was great flying and landing SN15! Keep on don't give up! :) Jeff Who? :D

[@karlkarlsson9126]

@@roblox_myth1016 Starship? :)

[@francislapointe8316]

Where is bezos

[@lambcordeirobrazilzenhoooc9870]

@for youMor like for Starchip for Guys Work very Hard on Starchip 15 ... We Fans FRIEND Fron Brazil , Starchip keep Fly Up and We in Brazil stay Togther on ABOUT many successful For Sapace X Together Mr. Elon Musk... We in Brazil keep on about everything Work hard from Starchip...15

[@friendlymushroom344]

John: “Starship heading back to the landurd zone”. 😂

[@ArizonaJewell]

The fact that we went from the Falcon 1 to this is just astounding. Less than 2 decades and SpaceX has went from a tiny little startup to a giant in the aerospace industry, paving the way for reusable rockets, and restoring US capability to launch humans to the ISS. Looking back at the failed Falcon 1 launches in the mid 2000s, no one would’ve guessed that this would be where SpaceX would be in 15 years. Super excited to see orbital starship tests!

[@drutalero2962]

The fact that NASA trusts them for human spaceflight over Boeing is a testament to the quality of the company. I love it.

[@ArizonaJewell]

@@drutalero2962 Yeah tell me about it man! I’m also pretty sure SpaceX would be a cheaper launch provider than Boeing’s system, considering SpaceX is launching crew on reusable boosters. And honestly I also never in a million years would’ve expected them to pick SpaceX’s proposal for the lunar lander. I’m damn happy they did though!

[@drutalero2962]

@@ArizonaJewell hell yeah! SpaceX to the moon!

[@ArizonaJewell]

@@drutalero2962 DAMN RIGHT! Gotta say, when I got a notification for a comment I left on a space video I was pretty worried it was gonna be a moon hoaxer or something hahaha, you're one of the chillest people I've ever met in the youtube comments. I'm super excited for the orbital starship test flight. The fact that in the near future, the most powerful rocket ever built, surpassing even the Saturn V and the soviet N1, will launch for the first time is proof we're living in the future.

[@L4INDIA]

Tmkc

[@KadenPlaysRBLX]

Show starts 0:00 T-1min 5:30 ignition 6:30 engine relight 12:12 landing 12:25 landing confirm 12:40 show ends 15:38

[@derptweaker945]

Bump

[@PutsOnSneakers]

@@derptweaker945 Bump and grind - R.kelly '93

[@canadaeh996]

Just think now, 20 years from now people will come view this video and see the first Successful landing and think this is where it all began

[@Fister_of_Muppets]

Technically it began a couple years ago with a flying water tank and one Raptor that destroyed itself whilst landing, but yeah, very cool to see an entire water Tower do flips and land nice and easy.

[@tyelork]

@@Fister_of_Muppets a water silo with very sophisticated plumbing lol

[@gabrielverilaskja9316]

and then what began? Going to Mars? This is BS! We are too primitive to spread to the universe. Before there is no human 2.0. we sit here and evolve. These primitive chemical rocets will not save us ... we are mentally underdeveloped for that step.

[@sixpompano8660]

Don't forget SN10. It was technically the first to land in this config but met an untimely demise

[@chrisobber5604]

@@gabrielverilaskja9316 Dunning Krueger a bit? Don't worry. People like you won't go there anyways.

[@MopBop_]

"The Starship has landed!" - Best line ever

[@PsycosisIncarnated]

You can hear his excitement 🤠

[@amrnaguib807]

Definitivamente se intensificarán las calamidades de la guerra del Coronavirus y la guerra climática. 👇🏻👇🏻 El-Imam Al-Mahdi Nasser Mohammed El-Yamani 21- Ramadan - 1442 DH 03/05/2021 12:35 p.m. (Según el horario oficial de la Meca). __________ 👇🏻👇🏻 www.mahdialumma.org/showthread.php?p=348403

[@alecwells9170]

More like, "The Starship has landed?!?!"

[@overloadgaming1532]

Even though it just straight out of Roblox it fits well with the other starships that exploded that's a lot of damage

[@xalvarez07]

Ugh can you imagine 2025 or 2030 when they say that about the moon and Mars

[@omidrastin3745]

I don't understand why people are so thoughtless about starship. Bro this is history being made.

[@triple466]

Because all they care about is eating burgers and watching tv

[@sameerahmed5078]

@@triple466 Nah! They care more about imaginary sky daddy 😒.

[@triple466]

@@sameerahmed5078 Zues?

[@sameerahmed5078]

@@triple466 can be any god.

[@FreshHotTar]

Well unfortunately, the general population probably isn't smart enough to even know what's going on

[@999Evandro]

What a beast! I still find it hard to believe that a rocket of this size is capable of vertically landing with so much cargo! It looks coming strait from fiction books!

[@StrykerFox]

My generation grew up with the space shuttle. Our next generation will be growing up with this.

[@SP-nd8ii]

Do you think blue origin can defeat space x?

[@nameless1656]

I still will be growing up with the space shuttle. I loved it more than starship.

[@petrkosvica7372]

And I hope the next generation will be able to grow up on Mars.

[@inwerp]

Flyng sausages and dogecoin

[@DailyDoseofSpace.]

I was born in 2006 so did I grow up with the space shuttle?

[@georgeterrill7279]

This legitimately looks like something out of Star Wars. Absolutely mind blowing stuff. Congratulations to everyone involved.

[@topdog5252]

It’s like a fucking movie but it’s real. Totally unreal. So inspiring and great for the world

[@Falcon-zq6lh]

Don’t say blowing when speaking to starship. You know that’s a trigger word.

[@robbyturbo109]

I think the special effects are better in star wars.

[@jenniferreyes2865]

@@robbyturbo109 People saw it with their own eyes idiot

[@heliumfilaments4368]

@@jenniferreyes2865 he’s probably joking, hopefully lol

[@elikakim9603]

Civilization Level Up - New Tech Tree Unlocked!!

[@thekaiserwannabe6586]

Great game my friend

[@user-tq6fx7tl7e]

Cell to singularity...!!

[@Krzeszny95]

We have flying reusable rockets but don't have world peace and instead have world poverty. Quite a bit of time until our civilization really levels up.

[@alexzachary9099]

@@Krzeszny95 that's to be expected, corruption will always be a problem no matter what we do, besides this is still a magnificent invention.

[@Chujoi0]

@@Krzeszny95 we're rushing tech victory

[@SilverSpoon_]

the sprinkler: ""LOOK IM HELPING!"

[@BMF6889]

Well done Space X. Incredible achievements in so many areas in such a short time. I'm 75 now. When I was born in Jan 1946, the Air Force was just a bunch of WW II aircraft with a few prototypes of emerging gets. But the progress of that time was breathtaking. In early 1950's my father (a B-17 pilot in WW II) was assigned to Sedalia AFB, MO. The base had been closed after WW II and so it was not in good condition. There wasn't any base housing so we rented a dilapidated farm house just off the main gate (which looked more like an outhouse than a main gate). There were only old WW II barracks that were abandoned and only heated with coal. The base only had old B-25 medium bombers. The only entertainment on the base was a barrack that was used as a movie theater. The theater was a sheet used for a screen, metal folding chairs, a 16 mm projector that only showed WW II gun camera movies with no sound. We had to bring our own popcorn. It was bleak when we first arrived. But then massive construction began. The old wooden barracks were torn down and new buildings and housing were being constructed. I clearly remember the day that the old WW II B-25's departed and the new B-47's arrived. Everyone at the base was lined up on the flight line to watch the old be replaced by the new. When I first saw the B-47, it was like an alien spaceship landing. We had never seen anything that advanced and beautiful. Few people know that the early B-47s didn't have any defensive weapons because it was faster that any fighter at the time. It could literally outrun any enemy threat. That changed later when a radar controlled tail gun was added. My dad flew the B-47 and he told me it flew more like a fighter than a bomber. Anyway later Sedalia AFB was renamed Whiteman AFB and it is not the home of the B-2 steal bomber. Like I said, I'm 75 now, but I remember when it was Sedalia AFB with old B-25's and the only entertainment was watching old WW II gun camera films on a bed sheet with no sound in old wooden barracks on a bed sheet heated with coal. And now it is the premier base for the most advanced stealth aircraft on the face of the earth. I'm glad I have had to opportunity to see the miracle changes in technologies.

[@dylanm.3692]

@@gaydonaldtrump What...?

[@isthattrue]

Thanks for sharing your story with us! Only people like you can tell us about that part of history from a personal perspective.

[@j.jasonwentworth723]

@@isthattrue Agreed (my father served in World War II)--knowing what came before what we have now makes us appreciate what we have--and what we will have in the future, to look forward to now.

[@lifealliancegroup]

That was deeply inspiring sir, it's like I could feel what you were feeling as you wrote this reminiscing about those wonderful days, before my time, it is always rewarding to hear our elders tell us the stories of great wonders and beautiful innocent days gone by. GOD BLESS YOU and THANK YOU FOR SHARING !

[@nguyenthu12]

I trust that you would be witnessing human launching (or even landing) on Mars during your life time. Stay healthy as my best wish to you.

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

The way we all felt until the smoke cleared and there’s SN15 safe and sound. Freaking epic!

[@kimweaver3323]

I guess they never noticed that their rocket was on fire. Oh well.

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

As they said, "it ain't over till it's over" or "when the fat lady sings."

[@RCHeliJet]

Fantastic Work all from Spacex Team, thumb up. Like that Vector-Thrust Turbines :))

[@lcfflc3887]

what turbine? you mean rockets, airplanes have turbines.

[@lcfflc3887]

@dolita windo yes so many engineers, its amazing. LOL

[@Heap_InnovatorsRBLX]

You mean engine?

[@Enoux7]

raptor engines: *burns n provides lift* Auto CC: *MUSIC INTENSIFIES*

[@Azmythometre]

Music to my ears

[@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621]

Technology is getting advanced

[@mr22ph95]

6:19 T-minus 10 8:36 1st engine cut off 10:06 2nd Engine cutoff 10:27 3rd Engine Cutoff 12:10 Flip Manuever 12:17 Landing 12:30 Touch down!!! 12:40 Starship 15 is VISIBLE LANDED!!!

[@asimnabil7565]

Thanks alot ❤️

[@ShadyRonin]

God’s work

[@Dwainpipe21]

@@ShadyRonin A god had nothing to do with it , take your outdated mystical nonsense and go bash your tambourine else where.

[@fa.adeddd]

if you want go ahead and add the start of the flip maneuver

[@fa.adeddd]

thanks

[@amanhaman8568]

"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it"

[@piotrd.4850]

You know, nobody ever said it can not be done. People who actually know about this stuff just mentioned something obvious: that it won't be done as quickly, easily and cheaply and thoroughly as everybody thinks. Already list of delays, overruns and skips is mounting on SpaceX: F9H cross feed, Dragon powered landing, first flight to ISS and this debacle of blowing pressure tanks and pretending this is rocket engineering. Apparently, people who built Shuttle, Voyagers, Vikings, Energya and Buran didn't know anything about development.

[@neeljavia2965]

@@piotrd.4850 Ok hater. You people are even worse than those who directly say that it's impossible. At least they are honest with themselves. You guys just lie. Rocket engineering is difficult and takes time. But saying spacex is a debacle and not doing rocket engineering is bs. Would love to laugh on your face when it reaches Mars just like we all laughed on you haters when they landed their boosters vertically, or went to iss that too in 18 years.

[@NBAasDOGG]

@@neeljavia2965 Those are actually facts! No body ever said that something could not be done. It’s usually a financial problem on pretty much every scientific topic/project.

[@CorkScrewer]

@Piotr D. So you're saying people have different standards, some people expect things to happen in 2 weeks and the people actually doing it, lets it take the time it needs? You brilliant mind you

[@neeljavia2965]

@@NBAasDOGG Some have said that it cannot be done for years. Like new york times saying aeroplanes would take 50 years more to be made and than 1 week later the 1st successful flight is taken.

*It is truly incredible to witness these works in human history live. İnsanlık tarihinde bu eserlere canlı olarak tanık olmak gerçekten inanılmaz.*

[@Peter94686]

2021 and they are not able to provide continous camera recordings from different angles.... *Facepalm*

[@austeyen5628]

@@Peter94686 who cares? itll all be showing the same thing

[@Rashad-az]

OOOOOOOOOOOOO kral da buralarda

[@gulnurakdemir7865]

@@Rashad-az ayn

[@h1gh_end134]

@@Peter94686 then ur blind

[@_xxClaudiaxx_]

Here after the second starship flight test! Honestly its incredible how far spacex and the crew have come. Onward to mars!!

[@TheMMAHawk]

just came back after the third launch, exciting times

[@_xxClaudiaxx_]

@@TheMMAHawk exciting times indeed! The future is looking bright

[@christiandanielmunoz5511]

Sn8, sn9, sn10 and sn11 are proud of their brother Sn15. They can now rest in peace

[@Leitwolf22]

You mean rest in pieces..

[@cynth0984]

they can now rest in pieces

[@sherwengalleza8627]

@@Leitwolf22 LOL! 😆😆

[@nguyenthu12]

Actually their sister.

[@TravisRichey]

@@nguyenthu12 Their non-gendered mechanical sibling...

[@thelegendwarior]

It wasn't on may the fourth, but they got the revenge of the fifth: starship strikes back

[@lazarus2691]

Nice.

[@pedrobatista370]

Another happy landing

[@jmcenanly1]

It was the 60th anniversary of the Freedom 7 flight.

[@vygandaspudzmys1086]

Tho it landed close to the edge of platform. Some more feets and it would go down

[@Arae_1]

Damn

[@aidancarwash]

RIP SN15 you will be missed 2020-2023

[@atom1236]

"Starship cant land" Starship:

[@omaru315]

Hold my raptor engine

[@vincentvoncarnap2473]

@@omaru315 thats like saying: "you cant run" hold my leg

[@sjhei203]

Who said it cant land?

[@atom1236]

@@sjhei203 turn out blue origin did after spacex won moon lander contact for starship.

[@h1gh_end134]

@@atom1236 we dont talk about that bozo here

[@emirhanyagcioglu6980]

That landing was so much smoother than most of the airliner landings

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

Except for the persistent fire.

[@MrChalmers99]

@Vap Pri how is the reply to the comment 1 minute before the comment was posted XD

[@no-hr3cv]

SN9 landed like Ryanair

[@adriantheo7654]

@@MrChalmers99 bot

[@ValensBellator]

@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 bah, what’s a little fire? That’s just there to protect the passengers from having to smell that methane as they walk out 😂

[@kapybara8079]

The fact that we can all just watch this for free from the comfort of our homes is quite remarkable

[@ihavetype2depression665]

I have type 2 depression

[@Memessssss]

Memes

[@3arl362]

How high are you?

[@jonjon3829]

happy with yesterdays dry bread crumbs?

[@TheEvilmooseofdoom]

@@jonjon3829 What are you talking about?

[@kmlooo]

It’s crazy to think that in a few years there will be actual people in that

[@caseymoore4759]

It’ll be less then a few years I bet lol

[@eddsonshetunyenga9761]

The word crazy is being unnecessarily abused these days.

[@2earache]

@@eddsonshetunyenga9761……well, it’s either ‘used’ or ‘abused’! Either way, that’s crazy great!

[@sergiorenis1284]

6:29 Ignition 8:37 E3 shutdown 10:02 E2 shutdown 10:27 E1 shutdown 12:09 Flip 12:21 landing 12:30 Touchdown

[@thunderkus290]

It surprises me how little coverage the work space x is doing gets. We get wall to wall coverage of how shit everything is in the news, but these are the people truly making our future a little brighter everyday.

[@LiamDilley]

Testing a rocket is one thing, but the biggest thing for me is the turn over they are doing between tests. With something to this scale and ambition the turn around between tests is amazing.

[@americanpatriot6240]

If Trump had liked this it would be front page news

[@Lorem_the_Ipsum]

@@americanpatriot6240 everything that liar is doing gets media coverage, good thing he's banned from social media so he can't keep splitting the us with his lies.

[@thiesenf]

NASASpaceFlight to the resque...

[@artisticyeti22]

@@Lorem_the_Ipsum lol yup

[@richardarcilla]

This will be on every “NEVER QUIT!” compilation till the end of time. Thanks Elon.

[@graham6229]

How about we do just quit ? Until this pandemic is under control eh ?

[@spotlizard0374]

@@graham6229 What are they supposed to do? Not like rocket engineers can do much to fight COVID lol.

[@richardarcilla]

@@graham6229 Never quit applies to all situations.

[@NepNepYT]

I would watch one if starship was in one

[@MikaelMurstam]

@@graham6229 unrelated. This doesn't affect the pandemic

[@clevergirl4457]

Over 2 years after its historic flight and landing, SpaceX decided to scrap this. RIP SN15.

[@prankkster]

I came here to rewatch it on that occasion

[@maDM72]

This is amazing milestone! CONGRATULATIONS!

[@goodvibes7984]

There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up. Congrats SpaceX !

[@joseph_arrow]

@Vap Pri * slap *

[@alrestauro]

Well said!

[@usa-acountryoffreedomandju841]

SpaceX rule! Go Dogecoin! Starship good! It was cool! Elon Musk you will be the most successful and richest man on the planet and fly to Mars and the Moon on Startship! It was great flying and landing SN15! Keep on don't give up! :) Jeff Who? :D

[@user-ix2ut2rk8h]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5i8kqhnidesbLs

[@joseph_arrow]

@@user-ix2ut2rk8h * slaps you until you call me uncle * >: (

[@FuzzWoof]

I think I woke my neighbours up here in the UK by shouting "WOOOOOOO!" when it landed intact. Absolutely beautiful, knew you could do it, congrats SpaceX team!

[@OortCloud]

1 year ago. Although we have not seen any other Starship flights since, it is great to see how progress is ramping up for the orbital launch

[@resplay13]

happy birthday sn15!

[@dawidda]

Finnaly! Congratulations SpaceX! What a day for humanity, Mars here we come!

[@colors6692]

What rocket will be used by NASA's Mars missions?

[@iamarokotmanson]

Mars is 20 years away

[@user-iz9ey5jd5y]

This is because in this age of modern cameras, the big space companies have failed to show a video in a good way. Hitler's era was much better than this.

[@dawidda]

@@iamarokotmanson You're boss from ULA called, he wants you to come in early tomorrow.

[@AquaAdventuresTTV]

@Vap Pri Why are you spamming this garbage everywhere?

[@skullwhy4447]

What a time to be alive to witness a historical moment

[@tw15t3dup5]

Sci fi.

[@John73.]

Beware off ower future

[@chylaux4871]

Yep

[@darrenstettner5381]

If the mobs of racist morons rioting don’t ruin everything, the future is gonna be awesome. Hail Skynet!

[@jimjones5419]

Way off

[@innocentmutant4471]

This is the first step of what is going to be the most historic space flight mission ever.

[@joe55514]

When you’re late to the bottle flip challenge, but still impress because you went the extra mile.

[@Zerzuze]

Lol

[@mysoulleft2742]

Tbh i want to say that

[@DTeK]

They did it !! Congratulations Elon Musk and SpaceX :)

[@henriquegoncalves7491]

3 xd

[@ColonizeMARS-hb7qy]

100+ likes in less then 2 minutes nice

[@AndroTechGR]

In 30 years we'll travel to Mars y'all...keep some cash

[@HMM9817]

Let’s go!

[@AndyRitting]

Spoiler alert

[@stefanolacchin4963]

When I heard the words "expansion into the solar system" I smiled and shivered. This is what hope feels like.

[@hoola_amigos]

Timestamp?

[@hoola_amigos]

15:25

[@stefanolacchin4963]

@@hoola_amigos thanks

[@kelvinwainainakimaru1262]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5a8loKFhs5lpsk

[@wilfdarr]

China just launched the first module for their own space station: I'm feeling more firefly than star trek.

[@UniverseInTenMinutes]

RIP SN15 2021-2023

[@Max2coolmayur]

Shoutout to the camera guy for holding on to that thing 👏🏻

[@chickenchokercharlie3161]

This is hard not to feel proud, even though I am not American, but a human being who sees this as an achievement for mankind... Congratulations to the SpaceX team for their ingenuity and persistence and vision...

[@kiwidevil9693]

This is not an American achievement. This is a humankind achievement.

[@noneyobiznez2692]

Yes many ppl involved were not born here in the states👍

[@noneyobiznez2692]

The states just provided the freedom for ppl to achieve it😁 well...and some redistribution of funds😬

[@j.jasonwentworth723]

@@kiwidevil9693 It *was* an American achievement, but it need not be (nor do we Americans [most of us, anyway] want it to be) an *exclusively* American achievement. SpaceX builds (mostly) reusable launch vehicles, cargo capsules, crew capsules, and fully-reusable spaceships (Starship and its soon-to-fly reusable booster), but more than this flight hardware will be needed to get to and settle Mars (and settle the Moon, too). Chicken Choker Charlie, *you* could start a company--it need not be a large one, and it would grow over time--to produce the life support, safety, and/or other equipment the Moon and Mars settlers will need, including pre-packaged food and food-growing apparatus (hydroponic or aeroponic agriculture units, etc.).

[@pedrobreyner7204]

@@j.jasonwentworth723 I like that thought but there are some problems: 1 money 2 Spacex make their one rockets, engines and capsules, why not the mars colony?

[@TamashaBera]

Historic moment for all humans! great work by the Spacex team!

[@snipestorm4555]

@Jonny Gertmunger uhh excuse me what are you talking about?

[@eugenet453]

It's not the first Spaceship launch where I see this exact comment

[@Arae_1]

Indeed

[@Arae_1]

@@eugenet453 so?

[@felixshetty7930]

Fortnite tamashaBera

[@AK_Vortex]

My God, what a beautiful sight! Well done Starship (Space X) and nicely handled launch crews.

[@Aelijus]

Love that VLC text showing the udp stream of the video feed :)

[@jonbutcher5907]

I watched this live in the UK with my 6 year old son and can safely say that Space X are inspiring minds and helping create the engineers, designers and forward thinkers of the future by releasing live moments of history like this for all to see. Thank you.

[@hemlock42069]

2 people hit the like button on your comment the the same time i did. Nothing special tho just wanted to share 😂

[@nikkit887]

Cried. My dream to have barely any oxygen in my body and pass away going into Space. The last thing I would want to see with my own eyes after hugging my babies

[@vixify09]

@@nikkit887 Im confused??

[@nikkit887]

@@vixify09 Apart from wow receiving a response. In the atmosphere strapped to a rocket would be the last thing I wish to see with my own eyes and then pass away and disintegrate. No cremation no burial just one with Space

[@vixify09]

@@nikkit887 Oh

[@jmanh7203]

This is the day that Elon and his team did the bottle flip trick successfully with a building sized rocket. Well Played.

[@janenkirote7071]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5a8loKFhs5lpsk

[@kelvinwainainakimaru1262]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5a8loKFhs5lpsk

[@vexorion6577]

above me are link spammers

[@jamie_michelson]

@@vexorion6577 Indeed

[@vexorion6577]

above me is a guy who agrees that above my first comment are link spammers

[@nathanerdelles8974]

How about a "Recap" video like you did for SN10? Include footage offloaded from onboard cameras that we couldn't see due to downlink instability? Would be amazing to see, this accomplishment deserves to be appreciated from every conceivable perspective!

[@HarrisonAdAstra]

Fourteen days after the sn10 livestream they uploaded the recap.

[@nathanerdelles8974]

@@HarrisonAdAstra here's hoping the tradition continues for 15, then. Was a little sad we didn't get any onboard footage after 11, if any even survived. Would have made for an interesting perspective, albeit for probably just a few key frames.

[@HarrisonAdAstra]

@@nathanerdelles8974 this is the first time they can recover the cameras

[@dsdy1205]

You probably know this already but it exists now!

[@schemagroup1]

When I watched this with my son I told him, if SN15 lands this is history and it did what a exciting moment it was!!.

[@FlameeeRv]

Congrats SpaceX team! That's a historical moment right here.

[@usa-acountryoffreedomandju841]

SpaceX rule! Go Dogecoin! Starship good! It was cool! Elon Musk you will be the most successful and richest man on the planet and fly to Mars and the Moon on Startship! It was great flying and landing SN15! Keep on don't give up! :) Jeff Who? :D

[@izabel_ch]

👏👏

[@62cripple]

Simply....AMAZING....✊congratulations from New Zealand 👏👏👏👏

[@ArieVisker]

Amazing how much the Launch and landing platforms have changed in the last 7 months. It's so impresive.

[@spaceXcentric]

Excellent work, SpaceX team. Already looking forward to SN16. Oh, and Raptors are best served well done anyway.

[@TheWorldMostCrispiestFry]

Truly amazing my man👏

[@bubblemonkey1209]

Communism

[@neoscylax]

@Hesab Hesab indeed Dogeism

[@maxhvlabs5555]

This raptors look totally different and much reliable! 😍

[@Cholinfly]

When an electric rocket boss!?

[@legominifig101]

History has been made It’s good to be alive great flight SpaceX

[@Diego-pf4hy]

@WATCH out true, that fire can cause starship to fail if they can’t fix it for safety concerns

[@TheWorldMostCrispiestFry]

@WATCH out elon musk: you know why im here😏

[@richardh4328]

@WATCH out There’s a lot more work to be done. They still have to build, hop and land BN2+, they have to get the launch integration tower built, they have to hop and land SN16-SN20(ish?) and they also have to make sure all the orbital requirements are met (TPS tiles, re-entry guidance/control, etc.) But this test result is extremely promising! The new Raptors also did an amazing job by all outward appearances.

[@joseph_arrow]

@Vap Pri * slap *

[@danitigre232]

Yeah! What a moment to be alive!

[@4WindsofChange]

Awesome view! Congratulations SpaceX crew! 💯

[@josephscreen9403]

Making history right here! Congratulations to everyone at space X for all their hard work, it seems to have paid off. :)

[@danielogega]

" When something is important enough you do it even if the odds are not in your favor" Imperator of Mars.

[@elonmusk4429]

Star ship is all about that

[@HazeGreyAndUnderway]

Hate the whole, "come to mars and be a corporate slave" vibe of this comment lol

[@danielogega]

@Ojas yeah. it's kinda cool tho

[@user-ix2ut2rk8h]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5i8kqhnidesbLs

[@Loading-lg6hs]

Great job SpaceX and anyone who contributed to this monumental moment in human history!

[@TheWorldMostCrispiestFry]

This will be the game changer😎

[@beeftec5862]

Hard to catch a live launch, please hold off your comments as youtube mobile app you cant ignore them

[@nebula2341]

Kind of unfortunate they didn’t do the rapid disassembly this time

[@fraznofire2508]

@@colors6692 and who are you?

[@awsumguy-bh9pz]

elon may be a crackhead but they did it. theres a chance i could walk on the moon before i die

[@shiguCS]

Things like these are what makes me excited to wake up every morning.

[@xtremejjp]

Mind blowing. I drove down there a couple of years ago, and it impresses me how quickly SpaceX has been able develop this program!

[@myballsitchsomethingfierce6319]

Look at the site now, lol.

[@xtremejjp]

@@myballsitchsomethingfierce6319 I know. My son and I drove down there this past summer. Freaking incredible.

[@dsdy1205]

1:15 Me intently listening to the ground control loop at max volume: Daddy Insprucker: GOOD AFTERNOON!

[@bruh.4992]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZy6c3yZYpl2hdU,

[@shreysharma726]

he is just the best ......my fav. spacex employee

[@jonathanlindgren409]

@@bruh.4992 disgusting

[@clevergirl4457]

@@bruh.4992 I don’t think it’s disgusting, but this is not the place to put a religious KZbin video link.

[@YorkshireD1]

@@bruh.4992 WTF is this shit

[@VOXFISH]

6:18 a 10-second countdown shortcut for busy people just like you and me

[@teresale1259]

Thanks!

[@PeacefulCountryLife]

You legend you! :D

[@dontcry1154]

Thanks 😊

[@baharaltun9401]

Thank you

[@SPORTCAR545]

thanks bro, but busy people don’t read comments to see yours 😉

[@igotthat5417]

Amazing - Great work guys

[@kk007pl]

Excellent work team SpaceX!

[@paulfreeman3868]

As a child growing up in the 60s and 70s this is absolutely incredible

[@wrwhiteal]

Notice that SpaceX’s fully reusable, affordable Starship replaces & obviates Nasa’s lunar landers, gateway, SLS & Orion... All NASA shameless, unaffordable, unsustainable pork boondoggles..remember that it’s OUR money, not NASA money that’s been wasted.. until finally Musk & Bezos said ‘F U Nasa, we’ll do it ourselves’.

[@Vaderstamps]

@@wrwhiteal Nasa's reaction to the lose of the shuttle program was to provide competitive seed money for private launch providers. So we weren't just sitting around for the last decade paying Russia for rides to the ISS. Elon Musk would be the first to credit NASA with the survival of his company in 2004(?). Their last ditch success on their 4th launch won them a NASA contract. I do get what you're saying though. There has always been a lot of graft and corruption in the 'pay plus' contract system they used. Pay plus means the contractor gets paid a certain amount plus whatever they need for cost overruns. Guaranteed delays and overruns, basically.

[@wrwhiteal]

@@Vaderstamps the ‘cost plus’ arrangements were/are necessary because of NASA incompetence, meddling, interference, micro-management... just like any contractor working for an incompetent meddling idiot.. you have to protect yourself.. You seem to give NASA credit for wasting $500+ billion OF OUR MONEY on 50 years of dead end unsustainable manned space boondoggles... then paying SpaceX to do what NASA itself is incompetent/incapable of doing.. resupplying & crewing our own space station.. No, NASA is HOPELESS.. it needs to be downsized or eliminated.. get the dead wood centers/HQ out of the way..replaced with taxpayer funded x-prizes for American enterprises accomplishing US space goals like Lunar Colonies, Americans to Mars, trips to asteroids, etc..

[@BillMarion]

Haven't been able to keep up with Starship progress for a couple of weeks. When I went to my favorite news site, this major event wasn't even mentioned. I learned about it through KZbin. It makes no sense at all. This is huge. It's an amazing accomplishment. Congratulations SpaceX.

[@Guy-zf5of]

They usually post It after some hours or days and then entire news feed is filed with spacex news

[@Petidani0330]

Your excitement is based and nice, but let's be real: this particular test flight wasn't that big of a deal on its own. Don't get me wrong, every single flight is invaluable for SpaceX, but the next great milestone will be SN20, the first attempt of an orbital flight.

[@unmountablebootvolume]

It is most likely because it wasn't the first successful landing, but just the first one without an RUD minutes after landing, so they can analyze it this time. And while that may be a huge success for the scientists, it isn't all that interesting for the public.

[@BillMarion]

@@Petidani0330 You're probably right. It seems like there is such resentment towards Elon Musk. I realize "it's lonely at the top," but it seems so ridiculous. Regardless, we're all looking forward to the first orbital flight! Cheers!

[@jarnobredau]

@@Petidani0330 sn16 will probably go 50km or sth, bcs thats what sn15 was normally supposed to do

[@5h3rmn]

Still one of my favorite videos.

[@iandennis1]

Watching again just over a year later it still seems really amazing looking forward to the sub orbital test flight now.

[@AllPileup]

The fire is out, which means this is the first fully successful Starship test. Edit: Sorry, I mean successful without a kaboom, Rico.

[@eue6487]

WOOOOO

[@OortCloud]

Correct my friend! They did it!

[@TyDyck]

Thanks for the update on the fire!

[@Krawurxus]

The former tests were all fully successful. This is the first flight where landing the thing was actually the objective. It would've been a nice bonus during the earlier ones but wasn't actually expected or required.

[@aceofhearts8036]

Theyve all been successful, being that they are tests of the vehicle

[@ivankuljis1780]

_l was only ten years old when we watched in class on black and white Television, Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon!_ _That vision in 1969 made me cry!_ STARSHIP _Sn15 came close today to repeating History!_ _'Make it so!'_ Well done SpaceX

[@janenkirote7071]

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[@kelvinwainainakimaru1262]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5a8loKFhs5lpsk

[@jdsguam]

I was 14 at the time. Today is monumental!

[@ivankuljis1780]

@@jdsguam _Welcome Aboard Flight STARSHIP John_ _Yes agreed:MONUMENTAL DAY!_ _We WILL remember!_

[@comedyradijs1069]

Progress is incredible!

[@TURVY27]

"This city Houston, this state of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested, and wished to look behind them, for the eyes of the world now look into space" - John F Kennedy

[@MrJdsenior]

Yeah, they talked like that back then, it's called marketing yourself and gaining political points from constituents. What of it?

[@TURVY27]

@@MrJdsenior I was trying to say how much of an achievement this test flight was

[@chrislemfors6928]

I agree we need to get of this polluted rock.8-)8-)8-)8-)

[@lukeskywalkerstaable]

@@MrJdsenior oh piss off it's a good quote for God's sake

[@KatariaGujjar]

It was built by those who massacred the natives.

[@carrie4696]

Nothing has done more to get me through this whole covid nightmare than seeing this absolute beast come alive. Go SpaceX, go Starship, let's go to Mars!

[@billieellish3285]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJjbnGiMiZ2Cn6s

[@besto5486]

What's with all these links god BOTS

[@besto5486]

@EIon Musk ꪜ bruh stop immitating elon🤦‍♂️

[@liamm9614]

Same here ! Thank god for SpaceX

[@lukjed9117]

Congrats on another fakery!

[@mohammedshaik9647]

I stayed up all night to watch this and it definitely payed off. Congrats SpaceX you legends actually did it!

[@janenkirote7071]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5a8loKFhs5lpsk

[@kelvinwainainakimaru1262]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5a8loKFhs5lpsk

[@goji300altlol7]

above me are link spammers

[@sirahmad]

do you really stayed there all night?😮

[@bonyadiru7026]

Congrats!! Great achievement 👏!!!

[@tobiasols]

This brings a smile to my face every time

[@danylo2471]

Congrats SpaceX! That's a huge milestone for the whole space industry. Now we are waiting for orbital flight with first stage :)

[@usa-acountryoffreedomandju841]

SpaceX rule! Go Dogecoin! Starship good! It was cool! Elon Musk you will be the most successful and richest man on the planet and fly to Mars and the Moon on Startship! It was great flying and landing SN15! Keep on don't give up! :) Jeff Who? :D

[@PentaxAstro]

@@usa-acountryoffreedomandju841 Spam off.

[@OriginalUnknown2]

Absolutely unbelievable! Congratulations to the SpaceX teams!

[@joseph_arrow]

@Vap Pri * slap *

[@claudevieaul1465]

Absolutely excellent stuff, well done!!! Must be so frustrating - testing such an amazing machine, and your wireless breaks down... Same story here: whenever I want to capture an important event all of a sudden my smartphone picks that moment to download necessary 'updates'... 🤣

[@SjMk1.]

Love the way its burning the whole time its on the pad and he goes "Have a good day!" Everything is fine, lol

[@AdimarSimil]

SpaceX rocket landing is the most rocknroll shit I've ever seen, this dude just belly flopped a skyscraper down the atmosphere.

[@MrJohn0fficial]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWiQnKyPfsSWrKc 🔥🔥

[@zerotheliger]

you mean his engineers all elon did was fund the people working on this. praise the team and workers not the guy who profited off slave mining.

[@thatganglecreature2212]

​@@zerotheliger Elon is an engineer as well, and if it was just about other engineers then other companies would be doing similar things. But only SpaceX is sending astronauts to the ISS, doing consistent launches with reusable/landing rockets like Falcon 9, and innovating in a crazy manner like Starship. And I'll just ignore your "slave mining" idiocy.

[@gonzapato1006]

@@thatganglecreature2212 Elon definitely has a great ability to hire the right people, and I'm sure he designed a lot of things and helped solving problems etc, but we also need to praise the Starship team which is doing an awesome job.

[@thatganglecreature2212]

@@gonzapato1006 Well yeah, obviously - they all deserve praise. The "hater" mentality that Elon isn't a large factor in these achievements is just incorrect, though.

[@StarlancerAstro]

Thank you Space X for giving us all something to look forward to in this sometimes turmoil filled world.

[@Tron-Jockey]

Simone Biles couldn't have stuck a better landing. Congratulations Space-X and Elon Musk. Another giant leap for mankind

[@westernarmy]

China The best🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳😍😍😍

[@usa-acountryoffreedomandju841]

SpaceX rule! Go Dogecoin! Starship good! It was cool! Elon Musk you will be the most successful and richest man on the planet and fly to Mars and the Moon on Startship! It was great flying and landing SN15! Keep on don't give up! :) Jeff Who? :D

[@UnsaltedCashew38]

your belly may be full of turmoil, the world is fine.

[@billylukman5205]

@@westernarmy the best of spreading the virus

[@jawlockgaming231]

SN15 flight test time stamps if you want to get straight to the main events 6:20- 10 seconds left 6:29- ignition and liftoff 10:27- final engine cutoff 12:11- 2 engines re-light 12:29- engines cutoff as SN15 successfully lands 12:44- view of SN15 on its legs after the dust cleared 13:14- random poping 15:37- stream ends

[@cvic9842]

Look at how empty the launch site was only 4 MONTHS ago, and now we have a completed integration tower, launch mount, tank farm etc

[@Electric_Bagpipes]

For the museum plaque, put “The one that didn’t blow up.”

[@truthview7261]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6HGf5eVpNtrqrc 🙏❤

[@HiphopBDT]

Congratulations space x

[@janenkirote7071]

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[@kelvinwainainakimaru1262]

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[@theworldisastage7553]

😂😂😂😂

[@HumorlessEuropean]

Did it explode again

[@theworldisastage7553]

@@HumorlessEuropean CARTOON

[@mihairadupop2491]

grate job !!! I'm happy for this success

[@matthewprince6157]

It's September and this event still brings me to tears.

[@apollomoon8]

History has been made, and I'm super proud to of been here when it happened (Go SpaceX)!

[@danitigre232]

Yeah!

[@electricninjaz4842]

100%

[@usa-acountryoffreedomandju841]

SpaceX rule! Go Dogecoin! Starship good! It was cool! Elon Musk you will be the most successful and richest man on the planet and fly to Mars and the Moon on Startship! It was great flying and landing SN15! Keep on don't give up! :) Jeff Who? :D

[@UnforgivenIV]

I'm old enough to remember the Space Shuttle flights being a mere footnote on the evening news back in the 80's - fast forward to 2021, and you can get full coverage of testing, rocket launches, satellite deployments and crewed missions straight to your computer/phone/tv. This is the next chapter of space flight unfolding right in front of our eyes, and long may it continue. Space X, we salute you!

[@nanonxpc9677]

I think they are referring to the increased availability of footage by space x uploading to KZbin as well as the reality of mobile smartphones both things much improved vs the shuttle-era 70s

[@williamgreene4834]

We just needed to bypass the mainstream news medias to see what's really important to us. :)

[@AlienVibesss]

Almost two years later, the first full stack booster and ship have flown. It was amazing.

[@one-with-no-name]

Another beautiful flight and landing

[@citizenblue]

Congratulations, SpaceX!!! History is unfolding before our eyes! And John I., may you always be the voice for these historical moments!

[@lukjed9117]

Historical fakery

[@elonmusk4429]

So goooood Mars

[@ioandavies2292]

@@lukjed9117 smooth brain

[@mr.frogster4398]

@@lukjed9117 damn you must be real smart