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SpaceX Makes History | MARS


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·Nov 11, 2024

T minus 20 seconds. Stage two tanks pressing for flight. Flight computer has control of the vehicle.

Do we see anything on the sensors that's a problem?

  • Anything right now?
  • Nothing.

Well, I'll say go for launch. T minus 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

[cheering]

It's going, baby. Come on, baby. Let's go.

[inaudible]. Check it out. Speed bumped by two kilometers per second [inaudible]. Shortly after main engine cutoff, we're going to separate the stages and begin the second stage ignition.

Come on!

[cheering]

The first stage is returning to land as the second stage powers the [inaudible] satellites to low-Earth orbit. The [inaudible] have successfully deployed. The first stage will soon begin its series of three burns to head back towards Cape Canaveral.

Where's the--

OK, this is bad.

[cheering]

That is that first stage coming back down. History in the making, guys. It's standing up. It sounded like an explosion.

Yeah, man!

Oh my god. Look at this. Look it, it's just sitting there. Look at that!

What!

Holy smokes, man!

It's kind of amazing that this window of opportunity is open for life to go beyond Earth. And we just don't know how long that window is going to be open.

But the thing that gets me most fired up is that creating a self-sustaining civilization on Mars, it would be the greatest adventure ever, ever in human history.

It would be so exciting to wake up in the morning and think that that's what's happening.

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