StarShip, StarLiner, Chang'e 6 & Oh Dear Moon - Deep Space Updates June 8th

[@scpguy1381]

You can tell Scott is tired of saying “falcon 9 launched a bunch of starlinks”

[@אניבאמתיהודי]

SpaceX delivered on their promise to make space boring.

[@panda4247]

This. But at the same time, it is kinda awesome that the Falcon launches AND booster landings are so routine and "boring" now.

[@KoRntech]

We're tired of seeing them too.

[@parkershaw8529]

No worry, it will be done soon.

[@KoRntech]

​@@אניבאמתיהודיYa at tax payers expense, well US ones.

[@sulijoo]

17:08 There's almost a fractal quality to the craters on the moon. No matter how close to the surface you get there are still more craters. On and on.

[@galfisk]

I love that.

[@RCAvhstape]

Makes it difficult for astronauts to judge their altitude. It's one reason the Apollo landings were all made with the sun behind the ship, so that the pilots could see the shadow of the LM in front of them and use it to judge height and ground speed.

[@kirtknierim3687]

​@@RCAvhstapeyikes!

[@nickfosterxx]

And making scary sharp dust, look up the work of Phil Metzger...

[@mgalyean]

It's concave turtles all the way down

[@jazzdub4958]

RIP Bill Anders. An amazing trailblazer and legacy to the stars.

[@vicroc4]

I hope they can figure out what happened. Because that's a hell of a way to die. Poor guy. At least he went out doing something he loved.

[@edmundooliver7584]

@@vicroc4 what? loops

[@vicroc4]

@@edmundooliver7584 You seem to think you know all the circumstances of what happened. Explain it to me, then.

[@Beer_Dad1975]

@@vicroc4 I don't know - but at 91, you have to think, at nearly 91 years of age - did he decide that was the way he wanted to go? And if so, good for him!

[@edmundooliver7584]

@@vicroc4 he had a heart attack up side down.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

RIP Bill Anders, Apollo 8.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

​@aaronfranklbin324 >>> Huh??

[@ILikeAlotofThings-SLS]

He is not last of the apollo astronauts and can you just stop pretending that they never went to the moon? Wait that guy deleted his comment ... i guess he couldnt handel reason

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@aaronfranklin324 Twenty-four astronauts went to the Moon; three made the trip twice.

[@mrhalfbacon]

@aaronfranklin324 There is undeniable proof that the moon landings were real, if you still believe in the hoax that claimed it was fake you need help. 2. While most of the Apollo astronauts have sadly passed away, there are still several who went to the moon and are alive, namely: Jim Lovell(Apollo 8 and 13) Buzz Aldrin(Apollo 11) Fred Haise(Apollo 13) David Scott(Apollo 15) Charles Duke(Apollo 16) Harrison Schmitt(Apollo 17) So no, some Apollo astronauts are still alive, and for dear god, the Apollo mission was real. Use your brain. Nearly half a million people watched the Apollo 11 launch alone. There is no way to fake that many people. The Apollo mission was real, but your braincells probably aren’t. ;)

[@EricBishard]

Bucky your hair is in zero gravity

[@justincase2053]

I agree 100% that Hubble belongs in a museum and shouldn't be allowed to just burn up. Pushing it into a long term orbit is the least we can do.

[@Thefreakyfreek]

Tere is no police in space push that thing

[@thebluemighty]

Capture it in a starship and bring her home....

[@pmrich7035]

NSA won’t want that in any museum. Hubble is essentially an NSA spy satellite turned the other way. One (Hubble) looking out, multiple looking down at us.

[@alienblade2005]

​@@ThefreakyfreekThere are a lot of places in space to put it

[@jtjames79]

​@@alienblade2005 Wait that's what he was trying to say?! Space is out of space?! 😂

[@theafro]

Windows update in progress, please wait. (do not switch off or unplug your spacecraft)

[@AQDuck]

If anyone would use Windows for their spacecraft, it would be Boeing.

[@RCAvhstape]

Are you sure you don't want to upgrade to Windows 11? Really sure? Really really sure?

[@kesslerrb]

Probably running Windows7

[@drewrussell8531]

@@kesslerrb The last good one

[@Leon1Aust]

@@AQDuck You worked at Boeing?

[@TheCaptainFrite]

Thanks a lot, Scott, for being one of the only space youtubers to mention ALL launches happening, not just what happens in the western world. It's important to know how this industry evolves everywhere

[@candiman4243]

Honestly, watching this series has opened my eyes to just how routine unmanned satellite launches are. Maybe we are making progress, not just the flashy stuff

[@ILikeDoritos456]

Remember how riveted we were when falcon 9 was new? Starship launching will be that routine one day. SpaceX is relentless.

[@cowpotpi3]

HAHAHAHAHAH. No it won’t. It’s a joke.

[@nightowl9519]

​@@cowpotpi3 I am coming back to mock you in 5 years

[@Ninjastahr]

I'm sure it'll be awesome for a very long time, it's a very big rocket!

[@endolfdaise5168]

​@@cowpotpi3

[@FireCrack]

I expect it to take quite a bit longer to get there though, Starship has revealed massive engineering challenges so far, and I believe there to be even more unknowns in the future. With the F9 it was only a few short years but if I were a betting man I'd say the window from success to routine for starship may be closer to a decade.

[@pauljcampbell2997]

Hi Scott. I know you probably won't read this, but I just wanted to thank you for all your videos. I'm recovering from mental health issues such as depression and PTSD, and they really help keep me connected to the amazing things that are going on in the outside world. Again, a heartfelt thanks mate!

[@ADHJkvsNgsMBbTQe]

Wishing you well. It’s not easy but hang in there. You don’t have to go it alone.

[@EMichaelBall]

I’ve noticed that Magnesium Glycinate centered my mind in a really pleasant way. While I didn’t have your mental health troubles that you do, it may help you.

[@andrewparker318]

On the bright side, the cancelation of dear moon means we won’t have to listen to Steve Aoki promoting NFTs in lunar orbit

[@MonkeyJedi99]

The best passengers for an experimental space trip around the moon would be flat-Earthers. Mission works? They come back with proof they were wrong (though they may deny it to keep the money coming in). Mission fails? We're down a few flat-Earthers.

[@ghost307]

@@MonkeyJedi99 Hah. They'd just claim that some halucogenic gas was piped into the fake spaceship that never left the ground. We'd have expended a vehicle and spent a lot of money, and still have the same number of flat Earthers.

[@found6393]

@@ghost307 Nah, it's much easier if the so-called 'windows' are really TV screens.

[@LJCyrus1]

Give it time, it'll happen. Maybe not that specific person, but once space travel becomes more common place, it will.

[@Mr.Anders0n_]

@@MonkeyJedi99 you've just converted me! The Earth is flat! Where do I sign up??

[@pseudo_goose]

What we really need for Hubble is a space museum _in space!_ Put a bunch of retired hardware all in the same orbit together.

[@dbf1dware]

That's a pretty clever idea. I like that. And this is only somewhat sarcastic, but now your task is to become incredibly wealthy and fund that project. Go Space Museum!

[@RCAvhstape]

@@dbf1dware And now your task is to become incredibly wealthy so you can visit it.

[@Chad_Thundercock]

A fun idea, but not viable long term. Putting a bunch of space junk together risks something unforseen disrupting the mass and sending tons of debris in every direction. It's a known hazard, called Kessler Syndrome.

[@NicolaiAwesome]

And how do you propose to move Hubble - never mind a bunch of satellites on completely different orbits, near or empty of propellant (that probably didn’t have enough DV ability to move to said parking orbit from where they are anyway) - to this “museum orbit”? Build a space crane?

[@lavenderlilacproductions]

Build an O'Neill Cylinder around it. The Smithsonian can run it.

[@cherriberri8373]

"He wont get to fly starship, but as compensation, i promised that while hes in the bay area ill drive him around in my minivan. We are going to nasa though!" Has to be my favorite line in the video 21:16

[@JamesPerkins]

Scott is a mensch.

[@chiluco2000]

Haha! Kicking him while he's down!

[@lorrinbarth1969]

Hopefully Tim has the language to describe a ride in your minivan.

[@NeoMorphUK]

Poor old Tim… promised the biggest wish list item of your life and then have it cancelled like this. Gut shot.

[@penguin44ca]

Why didn't he get to go?

[@variouscheeses]

Ah, when the Deep Space Update cracks the half-hour mark. 😅

[@scottmanley]

I cut stuff out too!!!!

[@Mr.Anders0n_]

@@scottmanley you do what you have to do to reach orbit. Fly safe 🫡

[@WojciechHandke]

@@scottmanley I hope that the extended cut of this episode exists where you go on a tangent about Bobbie Draper, instead of just showing the article mentioning The Expanse in the background 😃

[@seldoon_nemar]

I still love how Tim's community is basically trying to find any way to send him to space, even though he seems a little nonplussed at the idea. He's got the most "I really wouln't sign up for any of this, but dammit if the community wants me in space, i'll suit up for them!" attitude, and its amazing

[@AG-ig8uf]

So he will continue chilling for Musk

[@lekhakaananta5864]

@@AG-ig8uf Still begging for crumbs from the billionaires lmao.

[@countryman032]

​@@AG-ig8uf He covers SpaceX and pretty much only mentions Elon if he gives a Starship update. You can hate Elon to your heart's desire but that doesn't stop SpaceX from doing cool things in space.

[@richardloewen7177]

STM... Shanghai Tim to Mars!!!

[@lekhakaananta5864]

​@@countryman032 SpaceX's achievements can be as cool as hell yet I can't help but get 2nd hand embarrassment from people sucking up to billionaires to try to get a ride to space. I mean all else being equal I'd prefer to have an alternate reality with we have fantastic youtube channels covering space tech without the part where they try to beg from a Japanese billionaire and then an American one if that fails. Always thought Dear Moon was cringe. If the engineers continue to do an amazing job then the cost of space travel will come down and you won't have to beg billionaires for it. Elon's dream of Mars colonization depends on prices dropping that much at least.

[@nickfosterxx]

Loving the Sunita Williams celebratory Big Hair action, deserves it's own meme. Nine missions and probably the first samosas in space. Nearly 51 hours EVA. What a lifetime.

[@cehussey]

Thank you for not having a cheesy CG soundtrack backing your commentary.

[@benjaminhanke79]

Thank you for not putting an "AI enhanced" picture of your face in the thumbnail.

[@SuperFish40]

"Less than 24 hours later, the launch we've all been waiting for...series 1, again!"

[@trimeta]

Ceres 1, although that sounds the same when spoken aloud.

[@grandicellichannel]

The space flight event of the year for sure...

[@Ava-uq5dh]

Made me crack up

[@detritus23]

General Anders may have said that they should have sent poets around the Moon to better describe the experience. But, NASA sent a perfectly fine photographer, who, in his own words "went to the Moon and ended up discovering the Earth."

[@Awrethien]

To me, that quote also sounds like they sent a perfectly fine poet as well.

[@colinbarnard6512]

Bill Anders' death is sad. But, for an astro to go out whilst doing what he loves, and at age 90, it's how I'd like to go when my time comes. With my boots on. Thanks, Scott!

[@CraigCholar]

I'd rather go peacefully in my sleep, instead of experiencing those final seconds of terror, knowing you're going to die and your beloved airplane will be reduced to shreds, and having your loved ones experience the trauma of knowing that your body is also torn apart. No thanks.

[@numbersix8919]

Thank you until the end of time Bill Anders for all your good work.

[@andrewp734]

on a red eye from San diego Saw the track of star link satellites coming across IOWA this morning cool to see them so close together

[@extraordinarilybasic3250]

Thanks!

[@RustyorBroken]

Fingers crossed that Nyx names their first capsule Stevie.

[@nyet_maker7948]

Please yes! Or steamy? To honor southpark 😂

[@jeffk412]

Great coverage as always, appreciate that you do it with a minimum of "hype". I mean that you show excitement but it is organic and feels genuine, while also presenting the real problems that come with doing a really hard thing. Cheers!

[@Asterra2]

Thank you so much for being the first to concretely point out that Maezawa lost more than half his fortune in six years _and_ probably doesn't consider a space trip to be personally novel anymore now that he's spent a fortune on a trip for himself. Nobody has to pretend anymore what the real reasons for the cancellation are. In two or three years, I expect you'll be reporting on Tim Dodd getting invited to join one of Polaris's moon trips.

[@WWIflyingace62]

Love your videos more than anything, Scott. I send them to my parents to explain what goes on in the world of rocketry, you're much more articulate than I am, though probably no less excited!

[@meantweetsandcheepgas946]

You can see for a second there the fin is still functional even after a quarter of it was vapourised from the hinge out. That's pretty impressive!

[@benjaminhanke79]

But it's not a good design. I would go back to a lifting body and fully rely on thruster because that works.

[@robertclark1734]

Sunita “Sunny” Williams is the coolest astronaut, ever! Her nickname perfectly captures her natural personality.

[@ChatGPT1111]

Her chin hit the shutdown switch last attempt 😂😂😂

[@revvyhevvy]

​@@ChatGPT1111OMG! Glad you said that, so I didn't have to!!! It can't be 'natural' like that, can it??

[@manjsher3094]

No

[@Noughmad]

Other astronauts are visiting the space station, but she looks like she just came home.

[@bbartky]

💯It was so great to see how happy she was when she got on board the ISS. Considering how long she had to wait after all the delays I hope NASA gives her a plum assignment like an Artemis flight before she retires.

[@Daniel_cheems]

Bless you Scott Manley! You have the best flight analysis!

[@joeboyung1302]

I watched your kibble space program videos back in the day. Really happy to see you're still posting videos.

[@mikerichards6065]

We need to get Scott made into a knight of the realm - Sir Scott Manley sounds like a character from 'Ivanhoe'.

[@ericnewton5720]

Change his first name to “Very” and you get the perfect Sir name.

[@runningray]

At the 1 hour and 5 minute mark, one can clearly see the engines relight for landing as they light up the flap even though the the display for the Starship engines never lights up. However, my question is what is lighting up the flap before the 1 hour 4 minute mark? There was no engines then right? Also whatever it was went out, because there was a period of total darkness (which was what I was expecting the whole time) before the engines did light up. So what was the source of light at 1 hour 4 minutes?

[@HankHillspimphand]

glowing melting metal hitting the air causing it to flare up? creating light?

[@waywardscythe3358]

Yeah I think it was melting rocket providing that light

[@Ninjastahr]

Something was definitely melting and/or on fire

[@mennol3885]

Only parts that it didn't need were melting, saving electricity on lighting.

[@eddjordan2399]

fires in the flaps

[@Deltarious]

I watched almost the whole streams of Butch & Suni leaving, saying goodbyes, getting into Starliner, launching then getting out of Starliner, being welcomed and then later giving a tour and while they are both true professionals I was really getting the sense that they did not much like the vehicle and were a bit frustrated with it. They're clearly both very grateful at the opportunity to fly and the experience and people they worked with, but the vehicle seems to be another matter

[@magnusnielsen4409]

Love these videos Scott. Really these are the some of the best videos in the business. And they are made with care

[@frankgulla2335]

Thank you, Scott, for that great summary of space activity. And you, too, sir, please fly safe.

[@wadewilson524]

That lackluster Starliner coverage reminds how much SpaceX has spoiled us with their awesome coverage…

[@yummysatay]

SpaceX gave us the tonic to realize the likes of Boeing/Blue Origin/etc have been bilking NASA and the public. NASA is the naked emperor.

[@Papershields001]

That Chang-e 6 docking mechanism so reminded me of KSP with the ships docking and bouncing around. Very cool

[@FredPlanatia]

29:50 interpretative dance, lol. Thanks Scott. That got some laugh tears from me 🤣

[@peterholzer4481]

I would watch that dance ;-)

[@surferdude4487]

10:00 That Starship slowed all the way to terminal velocity before the flip and engines fireing up. That's as good as it gets.

[@kennethc2466]

No, it's the physics of a falling object under 10,000ft. You sound like you've never heard of a parachute.

[@surferdude4487]

@@kennethc2466 I hope that you understand that a parachute for something that big is not practical; therefore slowing to terminal velocity before firing up the rocket engines is as good as it gets, which is well below super-sonic speed. That was and still is my point.

[@UnitSe7en]

@@surferdude4487 "Slows to terminal velocity" I don't think you understand the definition of terminal velocity.

[@UnitSe7en]

@@kennethc2466 Starship doesn't have a parachute my dude.

[@surferdude4487]

@@UnitSe7en Terminal velocity is the speed at which the force of gravity is balanced by the friction force of passing through the air. FYI, objects entering the atmosphere at orbital velocity are moving many times their terminal velocity. That is the reason that using the atmosphere to slow down works. I think that maybe you don't understand how reentry works.

[@TheTikiMan]

The capture system for the Chinese assent stage is fascinating.

[@flamencoprof]

It looks like big hugs. 🙂

[@44R0Ndin]

(said about Hubble) "That thing belongs in a museum!" Unfortunately, the 4 things that we have built that are theoretically capable of PUTTING it in a museum (or at least safely back on Earth).... is also currently in a museum (the space shuttles).

[@Fogmeister]

In a few years Starship will be able to pick it up and bring it back in one piece.

[@rh906]

@@Fogmeister You might be a little optimistic with that timeframe. They are certainly way faster then the fossils at ULA, but that is still way to optimistic for a capability.

[@letsburn00]

When they did the final fix, they attached a plate to it all allow a robotic event. A dragon probably could be made that can attach, hook in and do a boost. Or possibly they simply build a clamp on satellite that has both a bunch of reaction wheels and an ion drive.

[@maxpower19711]

@@rh906dude, starhopper was only 5 years ago. Starship literally didn’t exist only “a few years ago”. They’ll be able to grab Hubble in 2 years max at this race

[@jati]

That’s why he also said to put it into a higher, more stable orbit to park it there until we can get it back down.

[@raytribble8075]

I guess my thoughts would be to build a propulsion gyro control module that would autonomously attach to Hubble and replace the existing gyro’s and also allow higher orbit capability

China's moon mission is impressive. Respect!

[@nikomarmanis7705]

I’m a medical student, so I only have very little time every day for youtube, but I never miss your Deep Space Updates. You’ve been making wicked great content for years now, and you always try to maintain your hard-won status as an expert in all things space. Fuckin good on you, man. Keep up the fantastic work! I look forward to seeing the next DSU!

[@Hebesphenomegacorona]

Naming an engine after Bobbie Draper is brilliant, hope we see the Drummer engine at some point

[@Ava-uq5dh]

Fuck yeah, Drummer's the best

[@daveschneider4723]

I was hoping it was named after Charles Stark Draper, but the guidance system is more relevant to that name-sake.

[@isakoqv]

14:00 That's incredible. Does anyone have a clip of this? Why didn't Scott show it?

[@user-fr3hy9uh6y]

I was surprised that Starliner had no live video capability. I remember watching asternuts live from Apollo, and that was over 50 years ago. Suni even brought her little Zero-G indicator without any way to send the image back.

[@ChatGPT1111]

Suni's chin caused the shutdown. On the plus side, her chin is going to give us our next eclipse 😂😂😂

[@Asterra2]

I was surprised too, at first. But then I realized how on-brand that is for the entire Boeing operation. As were those 1-frame-per-second telemetry visuals that looked like they came from a Windows 2K app.

[@andygoldensixties4201]

Personally, I'm really impressed by the Change' 6 mission: lander (with sampler and rover), ascender, orbiter, returner (not to mention the relais communication satellites), with a perfect (so far) partially automatic performance for the most challenging of these operations. A very good test for the same mission on Mars?

[@_RobertS]

Whoah, that's a lot of stuff being sent up! I'm only a casual viewer of this channel and didn't know it was THAT much going on. Insane.

[@AJHyland63]

At 21:15 there is a silhouette depiction of the Dear Moon astronauts and their professions. Which one depicts Tim Dodds?

[@mgibilterra]

As an Rocketdyne employee, there is someone in Melbourne Florida currently frothing at the mouth that you didn’t say “Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris company”

[@dennydravis8758]

Got any nicknames that'll make them froth more? I love making execs look like rabid lil chipmunks

[@Wurtoz9643]

@@dennydravis8758RD

[@simonecappe5570]

Hello Scott!! Always great to see your videos! I work for Thales Alenia Space in Italy and I am a mission analysis engineer on the Cargo Return Service project for ESA. My job is to calculate the trajectories of the vehicle from separation from the Launcher, up to docking, undocking, entry, descent and landing. I would like to share more but I can't for obvious reasons 😅. I'd like to thank you, your channel was a big inspiration for me, and has definitely been part of why I decided to pursue a career in the field of aerospace engineering! I love my job, and I want to keep up the name of Italy in the aerospace field. Many people don't really know the contribution that out country gave to space exploration. Thank you again, and keep up with the great content!

[@donjones4719]

How long do you think the post -flight review/reengineer/rebuild will take for Starliner? The helium plumbing tech itself apparently needs to be reviewed & replaced, not just one flange. And IIRC the thruster problem they had was a recurrence of the same problem the 2nd uncrewed flight had - which means that review and fix failed and have to be redone more deeply. That sounds like pulling out a lot of the guts of Starliner to get to all the fixes.

[@johnnemeth6913]

Are Starliner capsules reusable? If not, then it doesn't matter.

[@rednammoc]

@@johnnemeth6913 They are certainly meant to be reusable. Whether that'll actually work out is another matter...

[@donjones4719]

@@johnnemeth6913 They're meant to be reusable. Either way, the next Starliner that's waiting to fly was built with the same helium plumbing and components and the same thrusters from the same company (Aerojet Rocketdyne). The way NASA works, they'll want the root problems investigated and fixed.

[@xiphosura413]

7:21 got a good giggle out of me, Scott does love pulling one over on us every so often!

[@patmald]

Waiting 4 years for my mom’s last motors she casted was dreadful. We were trying to watch it launch in person but after so many delays we couldnt risk wasting that much money flying to Florida from CA everytime. But to have her last SRBs she mixed and casted to be her first manned flight was awesome.

[@lighty_11]

7:19 that tickled me. Well played Scott, well played.

[@kevinw7319]

@Scott Manley , what's going on with these valves on the Boeing Dreamliner? Any chance of a short explainer video?

[@EMichaelBall]

Here’s a short explanation: Reentry Excitement guaranteed.

[@philipkudrna5643]

7:31 „one day later, the launch we‘ve all been waiting for: Series One!“😂 Hilarious!

[@romigithepope]

Me: Radiation Exploder? Why would they name their satellite that… oh…

[@scottmanley]

Because light is electromagnetic radiation. Your eyes see radiation.

[@cherriberri8373]

​@@scottmanleyit just sounds violent at first haha

[@AzureImperium7701X]

Radiation ≠ Ionizing Radiation. Hard to remember as they are used interchangeably at times.

[@wizzyno1566]

​@@scottmanley"exploder" "explorer"...

[@rh906]

@@AzureImperium7701X Why scaring the average idiot is so easy.

[@KVP424]

Galactic Energy had been seriously ramping up their launch rate it seems. I feel like they essentially took the entire market of small lift solid fuel rocket in China, that is not related to the state space program or state commercial spinoff.

[@smavtmb2196]

Starship flight test 4 was incredible. Yes its likley more than one flap was damaged. Which makes it's soft water landing more incredible. However with a raptor engine eating itself/on fire during the water landing. I can't help but wonder if that engine fire would have caused an explosion had it been a real catch attempt. Rather than landing in water/putting out the fire. Also SpaceX really should add water protection on top of the OLM for catching. As for Starliner. I'm very happy for Suni and Butch. The scrubs must have been so frustrating for them.

[@rdbchase]

Incredible!

[@spencergeorge4941]

Hi Scott, I'm a pilot up in Washington State and fly the San Juans frequently. It's worth mentioning that much of the area is covered by (or very near) the Whidbey NAS class C, with both the PAE and BLI class D airspaces nearby. The area is not remote and ADSB is available throughout the area. A real shame to see Bill Anders go. I had no idea he was so local.

[@scottmanley]

The coverage of his plane is poor because it used a 978MHz UAT transmitter rather than the more common 1090MHz ES implementation.

[@spencergeorge4941]

@@scottmanley Ahh I spoke to soon!

[@stevej7139]

I'm still worried about Starliner being able come back down successfully, not sure I would want to put my life on the line for that thing a second time.

[@cowpotpi3]

Uhhhh Starship? That thing only melts

[@Kentuckyhunter58]

@@cowpotpi3that was kinda the whole point of launching it. Do people not understand that this is how spacex test its rockets? NASA tries to perfect a rocket and then launch it. Spacex builds a rocket and then launches to see what happens. Spacex is able to innovate on and perfect their rockets usually much faster than NASA this way. These starship rockets are test rockets.

[@mfakhrisyamsudin2214]

​​@@cowpotpi3atleast it landed. Starliner with a helium leaks could make reentry angle very dangerous which could be another columbian disaster.

[@robotsix6268]

SpaceX failures are necessary. Boeing failures are catastrophic.

[@richb2229]

@@Kentuckyhunter58yes people like this understand what SpaceX does but they are trolling.

[@VicariousAdventurer]

Manley says "Explorer" almost like "Exploder"

[@SomeoneFromBeijing]

Starliner's performance really didn’t make Boeing look very good, especially when their plane business is under strict scrutiny. I was really worried when I saw the news about the leak.

[@Leon1Aust]

Starship melted and you say nothing of that?

[@minigpracing3068]

Oh, Starship was not wonderful either, but it is still a prototype and not a human rated vehicle yet. They need to go back and do a clean sheet redesign on those flap tiles around those flaps.

[@SomeoneFromBeijing]

@@Leon1Aust There weren’t two astronauts on Starship, were there?

[@mikebmcl]

This donut I had was disappointing. "Why don't you talk about what you had for lunch the next day??"... 🤨

[@snorman1911]

The leak, and then the RCS thruster issue.

[@TheFLOW1978]

A retro reflector on the far side?

[@attichatchsound-bobkowal5328]

Some minor corrections regarding starliner: The " backup" maneuver before docking is a scheduled part of protocol to ensure that capability. Also, while Butch did SOME maneuvering, the final phases of docking was automated.

[@Kenneth_James]

Anders going out like that seems kinda poetic. Lived to old age, made history and went out doing something he loved. 'Every man dies; but not every man really lives.' Seems he really lived.

[@BogeyTheBear]

26:42 Sounds like it's high time we start building a vacuum optical telescope on the far side of the moon. The stuff we got is literally on it last legs.

[@ghost307]

Why on the far side?

[@Appletank8]

The far side isn't being distracted by the Earth in the way.

[@Bitchslapper316]

It still has a few years, operating on one gyro they think it can last to 2030. JWST is more powerful in most ways and is doing just fine. The Nancy Grace Roman telescope is set to be up there by 2027 and that one is a direct replacement for Hubble. It's a greatly upgraded Hubble with a coronagraph. It's named after the woman who designed the Hubble. There is also a massive ground based one coming online next year and the habitable worlds observatory in development.

[@ghost307]

@@Appletank8 Good point.

[@michaelnewell9662]

making and operating an optical telescope anywhere on the moon will be difficult due to the lunar dust. it sticks to everything like styrofoam beads do. it's also incredibly sharp and abrasive since there's no wind or water to weather & round those sharp edges (bad news for mirrors & lenses). nasty stuff that is one of the biggest challenges to extended stays on the moon. the Apollo 17 spacesuits were nearly wrecks after only 22 hour on the surface

[@zandvoort8616]

Scott, do you enjoy living in the US/California? Don’t you miss things like public transport, public’s squares and stuff?

[@EmyrDerfel]

Scotland's mainland extends from 55°N to 58.5°N, which is about the same as the Northern half of British Columbia. He probably doesn't miss the short daylight hours in winter, or the drizzle and midges.

[@Alxium]

For Hubble, it would be an incredible mission if they could send up two Starships, or a Starship and crew dragon. Have astronauts spend some time deconstructing parts of Hubble so it would fit in the Starship cargo bay and then bring it back. Send two Starships up, one crew, one cargo. Dock them together and then have them rendezvous with Hubble. Cargo ship has a special arm that can grab Hubble just to hang onto it. Pull it down towards the cargo bay and have astronauts work to remove sensitive parts such as the mirror, solar arrays, and other things. Bring those back on the crewed ship and bring the rest of the telescope back on the cargo ship. Honestly, it would be a GREAT training mission for deep-space ops.

[@JimWhitaker]

Simpler, cheaper and better in every way to design a new "Hubble" and get it up there.

[@littlebeardedman2189]

I just wanted to say, you were my childhood man. The first videos I watched on KZbin as a kid were your videos about KSP. I'm now going into my 3rd year of college!

[@Chad_Thundercock]

Let's never forget that a man once landed a probe on a comet, and for his efforts all he got was hell over an anime shirt.

[@woodcraftable]

Fantastic Scott. Appreciate your dedication to the information given out. Hard work. Thank you

[@jordanhenshaw]

SpaceX posted a buoy cam video of the booster landing on Twitter and Elon said in Ellie's interview that the ship landed 6km off target geographically, so the ship in the area probably was too far away to catch the landing, but it may have caught part of plasma reentry/meteor looking thingy.

[@ricchamen6304]

Thanks Scott for A Great Show. Entertaining as usual.Informative.

[@coolmadmike]

"Liberty and Freedom and Launches for all!" goes so hard. I think we should update the Pledge of Allegiance 😆

[@patrickf.4440]

I worked at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, for a few years. They have the Apollo 8 command module on display. Almost every day I would go by and look inside and be amazed at how incredibly cramped it is in that ship. Then I worked for 27 years at the Adler Planetarium where they eventually acquired Gemini 12, flown by Lovell (one of Ander's crewmates on Apollo 8) and Aldrin. That was an even more cramped spacecraft. I have to steady myself for an MRI; I could never ever be an astronaut, no matter how much I might have wished to have been. I admire and envy their capabilities!

[@wamdn]

And everything is hard metal in those capsules. It’s not a car or truck interior.

[@modernindustrialhobbit]

They should use superheavy/starship in Transformers as “Shockwave”

[@ThompPL1]

28:17 . . . Why would Polaris mission NOT have the EVA capabilities to replace burned-out gyros ??! . . . Aren't they just hand-sized sensor packages ? Also, there is a contamination shield door on the front that can be CLOSED during servicing !!

[@davelister796]

When you hear the results of the Mars sample return mission proposals, please report them to us through interpretive dance.

[@nikolatasev4948]

14:18 Four different human-rated spacecraft docked to the two different space stations on orbit at the same time!! After so many decades of little progress, we're getting there. Waiting for the day we can say the same thing for Moon/Mars!

[@kernelsmith]

It's fun watching the automatic closed captioning trying to figure out what a Scotsmen is saying when pronouncing Chinese rocket & satellite names

[@swissbiggy]

It is good to see that China does want to share samples with the US in name of science. That is a small victory for us all ❣

[@mcooper7542]

Thank you, I love getting updates from you!

[@knickebien1966]

5:56 Will there ever be a Sir Scott Manley?

[@bbartky]

I think he’s a US citizen now. If so, then the answer is no since knighthoods are reserved for Commonwealth citizens.

[@mikeshaunnessey9303]

I live near Kennedy and yes, launches have become almost like cruise ships heading out of port. Not quite, cruise ships go out two or three times a week. Launches seem like 2 or 3 a month.

[@travcollier]

Anders was 90. I don't think I'd call his death tragic. Surprising how he went out though.... I honestly wonder if it was somewhat intentional. Not intentionally crashing, but intentionally taking extreme risks knowing full well that it might kill you and being Ok with that.

[@user-ju6gb5yb5q]

I think at that age I would want to go out with a bang rather than lie in a bed for the rest of my life

[@FlapJacks7]

Maybe maybe. RiP

[@alanblasczyk1779]

Thank you Scott for all the updates.

[@andrewparker318]

Hey Scott, recently got into a debate on Reddit as to whether the colors from the plasma are produced from black body radiation or atomic emission. I was under the impression it was black body radiation but everyone else says I'm wrong, and that the colors changed from red to pink to yellow because of the changing composition in different layers of the atmosphere. Would love to hear your input on this. I assumed it turned pink because parts of the plasma were becoming blue hot, which was then mixing with the still cooler reddish outer plasma. Eventually the plasma got so hot that even the red layers turned yellow and white

[@rednammoc]

Black body radiation is a broad spectra of light, whereas the colours seen look much more like various combinations of narrow-band light that I'd associate with valence electrons being excited and emitting photons at specific wavelengths. I didn't see a smooth progression from dull red > red > orange > yellow > white > blue-white in any of the footage.

[@andrewparker318]

@@rednammocwhat confused me is that Scott has said on multiple occasions that the colors from reentry plasma come from black body radiation, but everyone on Reddit said what you said

[@rednammoc]

@@andrewparker318 I wonder if it's both. Early emissions are black body (but it doesn't get hot enough to go beyond red/orange), later colours seen are atomic emissions? It's hard to tell what colours are real, and what are artefacts from camera sensors limitations (i.e. saturation limits on certain channels) or settings.

[@ThePrisoner881]

@ScottManley any chance SpaceX can recover any substantial portions of the booster and starship from IFT-4? I imagine it would yield incredibly useful data if they could physically examine the condition of both after landing/re-entry.

[@greggoog7559]

Nobody ever seems to point out that Falcon 9 essentially has a 100.0% success rate, despite being the first reusable launch system... kinda crazy!

[@stargazer7644]

That's because none of that is true. FFS put down the SpaceX cool-aid. Falcon 9 came 35 years after the first reusable rocket and spacecraft. You might have heard of it. The SRB and the Space Shuttle. Falcon 9 has flown over 350 times with 2 failures (which is pretty good, but certainly not 100.0%). But it has only successfully landed 98.7% of the time for the latest version. Its percentage is far worse than that if you go back to the beginning. Learn some history.

[@Ben-wl3el]

I saw 2 of these rocket launches with my own eyes at KSC, it was sooo mindblowing! I can only recommend to everyone to watch once in your life a rocket start in person!

[@MichaelLaneMonkeywrench]

Dear Moon always felt like a PR stunt so not a shocker, really.

[@Strike_Raid]

6:39 That's the most extreme ice shedding event I've ever seen.

[@Xlr8UrL1f3]

They need to install more cameras on Starship.

[@Aengus42]

At 29:50 Scott's (sitting down, he is knocking on a bit) interpretive dance to describe companies submitting Mars sample return missions through the medium of interpretive dance was a wonder to behold! (Some have described it as "Akin to the Team America super secret distress signal" but I'm not at liberty to confirm or deny if that is so.)

[@rayspencer7255]

Boeing must get frustrated by Space X. Boeing finally gets a rocket into space , and rather than getting applause, it's "Can it land by itself and then be reused ?"

[@TheMoneypresident]

Last two flights were autonomous 😂

[@Nathan-vt1jz]

Boeing has been on the struggle bus for awhile.

[@thedatatreader]

Sadly, Boeing had plenty of opportunities and continually missed deadlines. If I were them, I would be more mad at myself for failing to capitalize on the huge advantage I had and relieved that the mission was successful. (in spite of the bad publicity and nonessential issues with the spacecraft)

[@endolfdaise5168]

we the taxpayers aren't funding Starship... but we have been throwing lots of $$$$$$ at a piece of 💩 that uses systems from older rocket programs and Boeing still can't meet deadlines... how's that DEI crap working out fer ya?

[@Skywarr405]

@@thedatatreader The aviation and space industry is full of nuance, but this is an opinion I can get behind; Boeing's been sloppy recently but credit where credit is due.

[@agoatmannameddesire8856]

Whoa I hadn't seen that buoy footage of the booster landing before!

[@jamesmnguyen]

As much as I wanted to see dearMoon to be successful, I had a gut feeling it was way too ambitious.

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

I was never meant to happen, I feel. It was just Elonbabble.