Blind Boy says sometime in March.
OK, let's, let's jump in here. Let's just do a little bit of
hello, where are we here? Oh, off the camera.
Here we go. There we go.
I was completely off the camera. I had to move myself over to get
in. Get in the camera here.
By the way, this is a very casual, very casual Space Flight
stream. So if you're into Space Flight,
if you're into Starship, just let me know in the chat, because
I know that's what I live for. I live for Space Flight.
Rocket life, Holly. Exactly.
That's what we're here for. Very casual.
Very, very casual. NC Davis, again, thanks for
that, too. Got you from Norway.
Yeah. Let me know where you guys are
from in chat, too, because it's nice to see the community and
know where everyone's coming from.
I'm from Georgia now. I was from Vermont and from
Starbase. I went from Starbase.
OK, so the last four years ish lot of moving, Lot of moving
Vermont to New York to Starbase, Texas for about a year and then
back to New York, back to Vermont and down.
Now I'm in Georgia. I'm about a couple hours away
from NASA now, which is really good.
Well, let's see where we're from.
Manchester, England. Nice, Phillip said.
Launch in two weeks. I'm a Brit living in Maine.
Oh, Maine. I love Maine.
Maine's so nice. Best of sweet.
Hello beautiful Berkshires. Yeah.
My life and day night rhythm is based and star based.
Yeah, I'm kind of that way too. I had, I had that going for me
for about a year and I kind of stuck with it because I was
down. Like I was always at Starbase,
like I was. I was constantly down there.
I was live streaming and whatever and doing all the the
content from down there. And then I'm still on that
mindset of like I got to get up in the morning, I got to drive
to Starbase and it's kind of cool.
We have this island out here called Tybee Island and it's
very similar to the drive to Starbase.
Really weird. Really weird.
The first time I drove out there, I was like, this is very
familiar. It reminds me also of going to
Kennedy Space Center. Very similar.
A lot of water, you know, it's right in the ocean, so very,
very similar. But I'm on Starbase time too.
I'm always tank watching. I'm always, yeah, there's always
a Starbase something Starship in my head.
So I'm happy that we're here together and we can do this.
Yeah. So Wessex Dragon says space.
Yes. Are we still streaming?
There we go. We got it.
Yep, we're good to go. So we have we have a couple
things we have to talk about today.
It's it's getting there. It's getting Get Juicy down at
Starbase and there will be some new information coming out in
the next shoot. I don't know.
I shouldn't say information Some some new Damn mine's my green
Looks so wonky here. Sorry, sorry.
This. As I was saying, it's a casual
stream, but my lights are really wonky too.
So just being real here with you guys.
Oh, that's bad light, bad lighting.
I got this new light over here, so I'm gonna turn it down
because it looks oh, looks pretty bright.
Blowing me out. Blowing me out.
There we go. OK, we got.
So let's let's do this for real. Let's do this for real.
We have some some information from Eddie Trevino.
Who's the judge first? Our base area.
So we have. Let's look at that real quick.
Here we go. There will be a Rd. closure,
possibly conducting transport, transport operations between
11:00 AM and 1:00 PM today. And in the alternative, between
7:00 PM and 9:00 PM. We know that the ship is back at
the OLM. The booster's back at the OLM.
Don't have to transport anything anymore.
What could it be? I don't know.
Let me know and chat. What do you think it's going to
be? It's possibly, you know, it
could be any. It could be anything.
It could be a booster.
It could be another ship. It could be moving something
down the road, could be moving something from a test facility
to the production facility or or anything, or a crane from the
launch site to, you know, out of the launch site.
Basically. I think that that might be it
because they used a crane to move the ship to the OLM from
Pad B. So there might be a crane moving
out of the way. So if that's the case, it should
be any time soon we should be seeing that.
And also maybe tonight 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM and this is Central
time, Texas time. So we could be seeing that
sometime today. Now also we have some other
interesting things happening at Starbase as we as we speak.
Also my Michael Maxey, thanks for the Super chat.
Appreciate you man. Let's see here how we how we do
this. We got.
I don't know why this isn't doing this.
He's alerts, man. Oh, there we go.
Oh, bro, that's a huge, huge starships.
Let's get you in there, dude. Let's get you in there.
Be some starships. Put you on top.
There we go. Thanks for that super chat.
Appreciate you, man. Live shows are always fun
because they're just chill. I'd love doing live shows.
They're so fun. They're way, I think they're way
less stressful than, like, creating a video, to be honest
with you like creating and like, editing a video.
I prefer this format so I can hang out with you guys.
Because we're all the same, you know?
We're all here for Starship. We're all here to talk about
stuff like this. Debs.
What's up? Stalker alert?
Hydrate. Oh, I got it right here.
Over 50 watching and over 13 likes.
Come on. Yeah.
Could we try to get up to 20 likes?
That'd be easy, right? Three more.
There we go. Let's get up to 20.
Super easy. And I got to get this out of my
head. These alerts got to go away
because you can't. I can't see anything.
There we go. OK, so we got the, we have the
road closure possibly, but let's go.
Let's kind of like move it back a little bit and but also move
it forward because Starship isn't just happening at
Starbase, because Artemis 3 is happening as we speak at NASA,
Marshall. And let me show you what I mean.
This is very, very cool. This is one of those things that
we are where you're like, you're hoping something like this
happens, right? You're like, how do we get this
inside information? Well, you know what?
NASA gives it to you. They're just going to be like,
hey, we're going to give you the docking mechanism of Starship
and the Orion capsule. Look at this.
So they did a they did 30 experiments.
I I believe it was 30 experiments.
Let me check it out. But there's some there's some
photos. Oh, really close-ups.
Really close tight close-ups of this docking mechanism.
It looks like a modified, modified Dragon capsule.
You know, like the docking mechanism.
I mean, I've seen this. I saw this comment on.
I think it was either SpaceX subreddit or one of the
subreddits. One of the reddits for SpaceX.
But it said if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?
Like that makes sense. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
They already have a docking mechanism that works great, so
why would they want to really mess with it too much?
They just incorporate it with Starship, like, you know, people
go from a Dragon capsule into the ISS really easily.
They dock very well, very similar docking mechanisms.
So use that same technology that you've been growing over the
last ten years or so and adapt it to a Starship.
They don't give you many much information, but NASA and SpaceX
recently performed qualification testing for the docking system
that will help future Artemis crews move between spacecrafts
to carry out lunar landings. The tests conducted over 10
days, including more than 200 docking scenarios.
Sorry I said 30, but I think it's that you had to do 30
things 200 docking scenarios and NASA goes on a little bit more
in their on their news site here.
There's a lot of information here Part of NASA's Artemis
campaign will get people on the surface of the moon.
So here we go, this is, this is interesting and we knew this
before but they just reiterated this here.
Astronauts will ride the Orion spacecraft, so it's going to be
launching on the SLS from Earth to lunar orbit.
And then once the two spacecraft have docked, so the Starship
enters lunar orbit as well, docks with the Orion.
And then the people inside Orion go from Orion through the
docking mechanism that we just saw, this this docking
mechanism. And then they enter the
Starship, they move to the Lander, This the Starship human
landing system, the HLS that will bring them down to the
surface. So they're gonna go from the
Orion into the HLS, fly down to the surface of the moon in a
crap that's 150 feet tall. That's wild.
Like that's that alone. Like somebody flying in 150 foot
tall rocket and landing on the moon's surface is wild.
That's wild. After a surface activities are
complete, Starship will return the astronauts to Orion waiting
in lunar orbit. And then they go on to say
during later missions, astronauts will transfer from
Orion to Starship via the Gateway Lunar Space Station.
So Artemis 3, they're in Orion, they dock with Starship, they go
to the Moon. Anything after that?
Later missions, possibly even Artemis 4.
They might not have the lunar station quite ready yet, so they
might do this again for Artemis 4, but they're going to have a
Gateway Lunar station for later Artemis missions based on
Spacex's prior flight proven Dragon 2 docking system used on
missions to the ISS. The Starship Docking system can
be configured to connect the Lander to Orion or to the
gateway, so everything's compatible.
Docking system tests for Starship HLS we're conducting at
NASA's Johnson Space Center over 10 days using a system that
simulates contact dynamics between 2 spacecraft in orbit
testing, including more than 200 docking scenarios.
So docking scenarios could be, This might be a little bit of a
sketchy, weird way to do a docking scenario.
But let's see, we got some iced coffee here, right?
Let's just say this is, this is Orion, and then this is
Starship. Oh, this is going to be super
dangerous. There's a straw.
Super dangerous. So we got Orion, we got
Starship. It says, they say they dock like
this, right? Say if they're going to dock
like this, they're probably not going to dock like this.
Let's say if they dock like this, just say these are the
docking mechanism. 200 different ways.
They could go straight on, they could go at a little bit of an
angle like this, so they can mate a little bit off, off
kilter. Anyway, you want to put up 200
different docking scenarios, whether it's speed, velocity,
range, whatever, you know, whatever it is, they did 200
different docking scenarios between these two docking
simulators. So the real world result using
full scale hardware will validate computer models of the
moon Landers docking system. So they they want, they did it
first with computers. They made sure that everything
should work and they figured out, hey it's probably going to
work, let's make these things for real.
So they made the actual docking mechanisms, which is great, but
now you know 200 docking scenario, that's really bright,
200 docking scenarios later. And they are looks like they're
good to go with these things. Dynamic testing that the
Starship system can perform a soft capture while an active
docking role. And then when two spacecraft
dock, one vehicle is a chaser and the other one's a target,
someone's coming, flying at it. It's sort of like International
Space Station is the target, right?
So it's flying around the Earth, incredible amounts of speed.
And then the chaser, like the craft that's going towards the
International Space Station, has to catch up to it, and it's the
chaser, it's chasing it along the path to form, perform a soft
capture. The soft capture system of the
active docking system is extended, while the passive
system on the other spacecraft remains retracted, latches and
other mechanisms. So it's very, very similar to
the International Space Station Docking System.
Connective along the two spacecraft to dock since being
selected on the moon Lander to return humans to the surface and
the moon since Apollo. SpaceX has completed, oh, we go
more than 830 HLS specific milestones by defining and
testing hardware needed for power generation,
communications, guidance and navigation, propulsion, life
life support and space environments protection.
So 30 milestones, a lot of different things.
They've done a lot of different things.
Power generation communications, whether that's internal
communications or communications with from the spacecraft to the
Earth, so that what are the spacecraft, what are the
milestones? Could be Starship communicating
with ground satellites or it could be communicating with
Starlink, you know, things like that.
So yeah, so we're not exactly sure what those 30 milestones
are, but they did a lot of them. So, yeah, so that is a really
interesting thing that's happening right now with with
Starship. I'm, I'm really excited about
this. But I mean, look at this, look
at these mechanics, so beautiful, so much wiring, so
much engineering here. Totally wild, totally wild.
Let's see what's going on in chat here.
Let's take a second here. Let's take a second here.
What do you guys think? I think that's really it.
It shows that they're really pushing for this Artemis 3
mission. They're working alongside.
Like they're they're doing everything at Starbase to launch
the thing, right. They're doing everything they
can to launch as many starships as possible.
But also over at NASA. They're working with NASA for
Artemis 3. That's wild.
Odysseus is napping, but still working.
Same with Jax's Slim. Yeah, I saw that, Michael.
We're going to talk about that a little bit later.
That's trying to make this universal standard.
I hope so. I hope they make a universal
standard for docking. They have a, you know, like a
pretty good standard for docking right now.
But a universal standard would be incredible because every
nation could use it, every spacecraft could use it, and
then they could move forward and keep building upon the, you
know, the the legacy hardware that's been around for so long.
Holly says I'm forever grateful for all your advice and
encouragement along the way. Oh, yeah, of course, Holly.
Of course I'm happy you're you're doing your thing.
I'm so I'm the supporter of anybody that loves spaceflight.
Anybody that loves spaceflight. It isn't a jerk, you know, Like,
be nice, love spaceflight. I'm your friend.
Like, that's it. That's all I want.
So, like, I'm happy. I'm.
I'm just grateful that you're out there doing your thing.
Gateway is going to be the business.
Yeah. To the surface.
And then it falls over. Oh devs, No, but it is exciting
stuff. Brian Reynolds says hello from
Delaware. Yeah, Delaware, nice.
Dragon XL? Not quite yet, I think.
I think that's kind of on hold right now.
Michael Maxey says SpaceX showed a picture of the document for
HLS to Orion yet. Isn't it wild?
It's such a wild mechanism and it's such a big thing.
You don't realize how big these things are.
But Starship is a, it's 30 feet around.
Like, that's the size of a house.
I'm looking at my house right now and I'm like, this room is
like 10 or 12 or whatever. And that one's like 10 or 12.
And then we have like a little yard on the side.
So like my house, what, you know, it's about the size of my
house. And you're going to be inside of
that, going down to the surface of the moon.
That's wild. But it's also 100 feet tall, 150
feet tall. So what is this?
What kind of timeline are we living right now?
So NC Davis says, I think the ISS docking parts have a male
female part. These are mirror images that can
be both active and password. Dragon can't dock with a dragon
today. This fixes that.
Oh, oh, that's interesting. NC Davis, I did not read that
for ISS docking. Dragon must get to altitude
ahead of ISS. Yeah, they have to.
They have. They're chasing it the whole
time. And they have to, they have to
go faster than the ISS. They have to catch up to it.
Wild. It's it's such a wild thing to
think about something that's going as fast as the ISS.
Let's see how fast it I know it's incredibly fast, like 25
bazillion miles an hour, 17,400 mph, the ISS, 28,000 kilometers
per hour. And you have to catch up to
that. You have a spacecraft that has
to catch up to that. So that's a wild thing to begin
with. 17,400 mph, you have to catch up to it.
You have to catch up to the target.
So it's not the same as orbiting the moon.
They're gonna be docking in lunar orbit.
It's not gonna be the same thing, but it's similar.
They have to catch up, You know, they have to.
There's a, there's a docker, you know, like there's a a a ship
that they're going to be docking with and there's going to be,
what did they say here? What?
The soft capture chaser and the target, that's what they use,
the terms chaser and a target. So the target would be Orion, I
guess, right. And then Starship has to catch
up to Orion. Is that how this works?
Yeah, because they're gonna launch the the people.
Wait a second. Don't say that Starship could
perform a soft capture while in while A2 spacecraft dock.
One vehicle is the active chaser role while the other is in a
target role. It doesn't say which one's which
this time, though. OK, so I'll have to do a little
bit more research and figure that out.
Which one's gonna be the chaser and which one's gonna be the
target. Interesting.
Though I believe NASA open sources it.
Oh, they open sourced the docking mechanism.
That's that's very cool. It shows that space is hard with
faulty connection and it's over. Yeah, I I mean it's true.
You know if you have 1000 things right, Say say you have 1000
things in your spacecraft. If one of those thousand things
go wrong, everything goes wrong. You have to have 1000 things go
right in order for everything to go right, for like 1 big thing
to go right. But if one thing goes wrong, the
whole thing, you know, the whole mission could be scrubbed.
So it is. It's an incredible feat of
engineering what they're doing already.
But I I can't wait for the future.
And here's a screenshot of from Le Padre of the ship that's.
Going to be raised up hopefully, hopefully later today.
I'm hoping it goes today, but the weather is getting a little
bit wonky down there. So if they're going to put it
up, I don't know if they're going to wait or not because
there's some, there's some like kind of wonky weather going on,
high winds and some rain. And usually when that stuff
happens, like the high winds happen, it's probably not a good
idea to stack a ship on top of a booster.
They've done it before and it's been fine, but for the most
part, it's probably safer to not have a ship on top of a booster
with high winds and, you know, a lot of rain and stuff.
So keep it on the ground for now.
Maybe. Maybe it's going to, maybe
they're going to wait like a a day or two until this storm
passes. But it's just really foggy and
wet there today. And yeah, so hopefully,
hopefully the storm passes soon and they can stack this up.
They might even stack it up today.
We don't know. But it looks like it's right
there. It's going to happen like as
soon as possible, a little stack and then who knows when will the
launch be, When will IFT 3 be? Not 100% sure.
We're we're hoping sometime in March, sometime in March.
So I'm hoping first couple weeks of March, which would be great,
but I'm expecting Starship to be ready to do the final testing
within about a week from now. They'll have all the tests ready
and then Flight Termination System and also the FEA will
allow them to fly, they'll give them a flight license.
And then I mean it's it's March tomorrow, it's leap day, happy
leap day everybody. Yeah.
So it could be within the next week or two do we see a flight
of Starship? I would really love to get
there. I would really, really love to
get there. Unfortunately, I cannot take
that much time to go to this launch without a plan ahead of
time. So I have to wait till I have
T4. So I'm going to start that
campaign as soon as possible, the FT4 campaign and get, I'll
get there, I'll get to IFT 4, yeah, that would be cool.
So but I'll be I'll be here to stream IFT 3 so stay here
subscribe hit the like button etcetera so we can be together
and watch this sweet launch together.
I would you know I I really love everyday astronauts coverage.
I think he has the best coverage mainly because he's there doing
it you know he he's there doing it in the studio while they're
prepping for the launch and they have all the cameras.
I think he has the best angles as well.
I think his production quality is like way above everybody
else. So NASA Space Flight has great
coverage as well. Le Padre has great coverage as
well. But I I would say that I was
going to say angry astronaut, the angry astronaut.
I love. I love the angry astronaut.
He's so funny, dude. He's like the bad guy in
wrestling, you know, he's like the bad guy, the heel in
wrestling. He's so funny.
He's a good guy. Like in real life, you know,
when when he's talking like smack about rocket companies,
it's hilarious. But he's right most of the time,
right? Like he has, he has a lot of
good points, but also like him on screen is him like turned up
to 11, you know, So he's a good guy.
Like, I've talked to him in real life and just hang out like we
hung out. We did a show together and he's
just like a chill dude, Robert says.
I believe Starship has to perform a landing before
demonstration. Do they have to take off again?
I think the requirement was to not take off.
I'm going to look into that though, because I you do have a
good point. The requirement wasn't to take
off, but IA 100% sure SpaceX will take off.
They'll just do it anyway, you know, They have to prove it to
themselves. They have to prove it to
everybody that they can actually do that because like they they
should like that should be the requirement, right, to get to
the lunar surface and take off again to get back to lunar
orbit. It would be silly if they didn't
have that requirement because they can't just like get to the
lunar surface and then oh, maybe we are stuck down here.
What's going to happen then? That's a wild thing to think
about. There are contingency plans for
that. But yeah, I'm not, I'm not sure
the spec of that off the top of my head.
Also, thank you for the 40 likes.
We have 72 people here. If we can get 10 of you to hit
the like button, that would be great.
Just so we can get it up to around 50, that would be
amazing. Also, I want to bring something
to your attention is that if you love Space Flight and if you
love Starship and SpaceX in NASA, an easy way to get
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And if you make a comment or if you chat, you know, be active
and chat like that's that's a really fun thing to do too.
I love to talk with you guys about on a Starship and like
just be active and chat. I think it'd be really fun to
talk to anybody with an opinion. Make your opinion known, make
your voice heard. Helps me out a little bit like
it does. It's not going to like make me
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Completely. Honest with you here.
I've talked to YouTube reps about this and you know, they
they said those things actually happen and those things work.
So yeah, I I do it all the time. I subscribe to like random Space
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You know, I'll, I'll start getting more recommendations in
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Do that and help out the channel a little bit.
You know, we're growing towards 100,000, we're at 91.
We're almost at 92 thousand, 91,883 right now.
So if we could get seven more people, we'd be at 91,890.
If we get 17, we'd be at 91,900. So we have 71 people here.
We can get 17 of you to subscribe to the channel.
I know it's a big ask, I know it's a big ask, but if we get 17
people to sub, that'd be great. Get us, get us that much closer.
91,900 would be a really good milestone for Leap Day.
It's a very cool and relaxing. Way to spend a few hours here.
Yeah, I agree. Naked, I agree it's.
And the cool thing about our community is that we're very
positive community. It's it's like a tight knit, fun
community, very relaxed, very laid back.
You know, if you want all the hard science and hard data about
this stuff, there are other channels out there, but I just
like to have a good conversation with you guys, so it's it's
very, very fun, very positive, Gardner says.
It's very positive. Alongside the rest of the bad
news, usually get in the feed. So happy to be able to talk
about my favorite topic, spaceflight.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
Oh, Debs, you caught that. OK, SNP, what is the 3/12/24?
That's my guess for the launch of Starship.
It's my Easter egg. 3/12/24 January, January, February,
March 3rd month 12th day 2024. That's my Easter egg to that's
my guess when we're going to be launching the Starship.
Good catch. And next time I'm at launch,
I'll let you know. Oh, that'd be that's cool man.
I'm so IFT 4 is definitely a thing that I'm working towards.
I was going to go to Crew 8, That's not going to happen.
I have some other commitments I have to do.
So Crew 8 is out of the question for me right now.
The next crew launch, Crew nine. I'll go to that and I want to do
all the IFTS from here on out. IFT 4, IFT 5, IFT 6, IFT 7.
I'm planning on all of them, so if you want to help.
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I think it's for three to $5 a month and you're going to help.
Not only like you know you can help me get to these these
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able to take the journey with me too.
Live blogging, like vlogging along the way, you know things
like that. So you can help.
You can help out. That's the way I raise money for
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fun. I don't make a ton of money from
it, but it's it's really fun. You get these straight.
Yeah. Debs, you found it.
Booking the time for four. Yeah.
So The thing is, I have to like doing all these launches is
incredibly expensive to go see a launch unless you're going to go
dirt cheap on this stuff. And I'm like, I don't want to go
dirt cheap because I want to wake up in the morning and not
feel like junk the day of the launch, you know, or the day
after the launch. So I mean there are very
inexpensive hotels and motels in in Brownsville.
So we have to you have to take that in consideration.
So when you're gonna go for a flight?
When you go, go see a flight. There's hotels.
There's travel. You know, if you're gonna, if
you're gonna drive there, it's going to be a while before you
get there. So it's might be 20 hours or
something to drive there. Pretty long drive.
Do that in a couple days, do that two days, maybe 10 hour
days and then when you get there you need a hotel for a couple
days because you never know if IFT you know if the launch is
going to actually happen the day that it's scheduled to happen.
So it's going to take a bunch of.
Yeah. Yeah, it's going to take a take
a little bit of Cha Ching, right.
So like if you if you they say it's going to happen on a
Thursday, it might happen on a Monday.
So you got to book your hotel from Thursday to Tuesday
probably and that's they jacked up the rates because it's surge
pricing of course. So a little motel that's 50
bucks goes up to 100 bucks just for that flight or something on
the island where you have a deck that you can watch the launch
from, you know, surge pricing, it's usually 120 bucks or
something. And now it's at $300.00 per day,
you know, something, something like that.
So the bad thing is that happens, right?
So you have to plan ahead. It's going to cost 1000 bucks to
go there. Yeah.
And it's, you know, when I lived in Brownsville, it's great.
I was hoping that for the, the Booster 4 ship 20 would launch.
Didn't happen when I was there. So it was it would have been
cheaper for me. I mean, it was cheaper for me.
Not cheaper, I wouldn't say. Cheaper.
It was more economically feasible for me to live in
Brownsville, get the coverage of Starship that I could for the
year that I was there, and hope that a flight was going to
happen and the flight never happened.
So yeah, so I'm going to, I'm campaigning for IFT 4 here.
We're going to be doing that soon.
By the way, is the feed, is the feed clean for you guys or does
it glitch or anything? Because I'm like watching the
feed here on my side and it looks a little glitchy.
I'm not sure. Got a camper?
Yeah, I was. Actually thinking about renting
like some sort of van or camper that I could sleep in, you know,
there's there's plenty of options out there.
Oh, it happened. To you.
Oh no, Gardner. That's not good.
Went there for a week, ended up there two weeks.
Oh, nice. Did you Have you seen an IFT
launch or a Starship launch? I haven't seen 1 yet.
I've I've been my life has been so hectic over the last like 2
years that I haven't had a chance to go to launch.
Yeah, so. Yeah, the the flight of IMT 3
sometime. Just when ads pop up.
OK, cool. Yeah, and I have no control over
that count. That's all YouTube doing the
ads. I don't press a button to do ads
or anything, so yeah, OK, cool. Yeah, I think it's just me.
Then I think it's just me on my side that it just looks weird,
looks glitchy on my side. Thank you for that input.
Appreciate that. So yeah, but if you're going to
a flight, if you're going to a Starship flight, plan ahead, you
know? So one of the the.
Advice that I can give you if you're going to Starbase itself,
bring a ton of water, like, like.
And I hate to do this because it's not like the best thing to
do, get a jug of water, you know, like a gallon of water.
But also get, like, water bottles, like a big 24 pack of
water bottles. Not the best thing to do.
Usually fill up something like this and take it with you.
But if you're going to be there for hours, bring water with you,
'cause you're going to need it. It's really hot at Starbase, you
know, It's really, really hot at Starbase.
So don't dehydrate. Bring snacks with you too,
because there's no way to get food down there.
There's no way to get water or food or a toilet.
Like, there's no bathroom at Starbase.
There's no public facilities. You have to drive 20 minutes
back to Brownsville to go to the restroom.
So just keep that in mind when you actually go on your trip to
Starbase. It's it's a wild place down
there. It's for free for all side of
the road you park in the side of the road, it's cool.
You park wherever you can. Nobody, you know, you can park
where Hwy. 4 is, a public parking area off the side, can't
park in the road, but anything off the road you can park over
there. So just take it, you know, take
advantage of that when you're down there and just go chill
out, go hang out, be nice to people, you know, that's the
best place, the best way to do it.
And get out of the way of SpaceX.
That's another thing you gotta do.
Get out of the way of SpaceX because they're there to do
work. The workers there say hi and
like, hey guys, what's up? I got to know a bunch of them
when I was there. Very cool people, very nice
people, hard working people. They're out there in the heat
all day. You know, give a thumbs up,
whatever, you know, wave to them, sit, you know, just
normal. They're just normal people doing
work. Yeah, So it's it's it's going to
be a fun IFT 4 for me, Wessex says.
I love your channel because you're always answering people's
questions, unlike some of the other channels.
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think questions should
be answered. If you donate.
Only, like, I think that's weird.
I think, like, I I understand they're doing a business.
Like, they're. I mean, I could do that and make
more money, but, like, why would I?
That's not the kind of person I am.
I like, I love money. Trust me, Trust me.
I'd love to get. I'd love to be able to afford
things. But.
I'm here for for Space Flight, you know, I'm here for to create
a positive atmosphere and a cool community for people to enjoy
Space Flight in. So that's, you know, that's why
I I like you guys too. Like I like our community and we
have 63 likes. Speaking of likes, yeah, I like
our community because we're like everyone that comes here is
pretty cool. Every once in a while I get a
wild person, You know, get a get a troll.
But if you do, you just ban them.
Whatever. Not a big deal.
So yeah, that's. That's one of the things that I
like about, like how I wanted to make this community really
positive. I didn't want it to be like
every other community out there. I didn't want any negativity.
I wanted people to enjoy Space Flight.
Talk about Starship. You know, I'm a huge SpaceX fan,
huge SpaceX fan. I've been doing this channel for
like 4 years. Slow and steady is the growth
rate, which is fine with me. I'm cool with that.
Do what I love to have over 100,000 subscribers, That'd be
cool. It's just a number though, you
know, We have 91,883 right now. If we can get seven more Subs,
91,890, that would be cool. That would be a nice way to end
the stream today. If we don't get it, that's cool.
But I would love for people to enjoy Starship.
That's it. That's it.
That's all I want. Speaking of that, we have one
last thing to talk about today, and it's not Starship related.
It's intuitive machines, but it's kind of Starship related
because Artemis missions are sort of Starship, right?
Odysseus continues to operate on the lunar surface.
That was the Lander. The IM one Lander landed on the
moon, flipped over on its side, and approximately 1100 CST.
Flight controllers intend to downlink additional data and
command OD into a configuration that he may phone home if and
when he wakes up when the sun rises again.
So ODI is going to sleep for now.
And we will see. Odysseus on the other side of
the lunar night, hopefully. I hope we do.
I really hope we do. It's.
It's an inspiring. Mission.
Some people think it's a failure.
And to those people. I think.
You're completely wrong. You're absolutely wrong, because
you know who makes up those rules.
Not you. You know who makes up those
rules. NASA and Intuitive machines make
up the rules, so if you want to make up your own rules, that's
your own game. Intuitive Machines says this is
a huge success. They landed on the moon.
Not 100% perfect, but their science missions were
successful. They have a bunch of data that
they can sift through now, so if they want to call it a success,
that's their right to call it a success.
But I'm going to tell you, if you think this thing, if
Intuitive Machines Lander is a failure, you may want to think
again because it is not a failure they've done.
They've gathered so much data, and this is the first time that
anything is landed on the moon from a commercial spaceflight
company. Ever, Ever.
That's huge. That alone is 100% success for
the mission. Did they do it perfectly?
No. No, they didn't.
Were there people on board? No.
Did they have to do it perfect? No, they didn't.
They never expected it. To go 100%, you know that when
you when you do a mission like this, there's a certain
approximate percentage that may go wrong and they factor that in
like hey, you know, maybe 60% is going to work.
We would love 100% to work, but it might not work.
So let's just, you know, let's hope for the best, let's work as
hard as we can. And their time constraints were
crazy couple. They had to do this in a couple
of years, like four years or something, four or five years.
So building a lunar Lander in like 4 or five years for a
private company that's never done it before and it made it to
the moon and it landed, that's a huge success.
That's a huge, huge success. So I think if if you wanna throw
stones at glass houses, just look inside of yourself.
Why are you so mean? Just be happy that I am 1 landed
on the moon, man, right? Like, just be happy.
Just be happy that they did it. And also this data is going to
be. It's super important for the
Artemis missions coming up. So Artemis 2, Artemis 3, Artemis
4, Artemis 5. When people land on the moon
again, this is going to be one of those Landers that gives them
so much data that they can sift through and they can learn from.
It'll protect the people that land on the moon.
So anyone that says I am, I am one is a failure.
I don't think you're right. I think you're completely wrong.
So that's, that's my opinion on this.
I am one complete success. I am one.
Those who say I am one. Odysseus is a failure.
Don't remember or we're not alive to know the failures NASA
had getting Apollo to the moon. Hundreds of failures for NASA.
Yeah, you know, people. You know, people died.
During the Apollo program. Right, Apollo 1.
Crew capsule. There's a launch rehearsal and
three people, Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chafee, died
in 1967 due to a fire inside of their capsule.
So you know, NASA, you know is is many things they've done
right. They've also had like that's a
massive failure. Yeah, Gemini.
Yeah. Remember Gemini?
High oxygen and pressure. Yeah.
When they see people on the moon again, Yeah.
I'm going to be to reawaken in a Yeah, it's going to be crazy,
Gardner. When they when people do step on
the moon again, I think more that we're going to get more
engineers, more scientists, we're going to get more people
that just kind of wake up. You know.
And realize how cool space is again.
Because right now, like Starship, it's ours.
You know, it's it's ours Right now we have a really small
community, no matter how many people watch, you know, bigger
streams like NASA Space Flight or, you know, whoever everyday
astronaut or whatever. Thousands of people watch those
dreams, 10s of thousands of people watch those streams, 10s
of thousands of people watch NASA streams of human launches.
But. And you gotta remember.
That like millions and millions and millions of people tuned in.
How many people watched the lunar landing?
Let's see. I think it was like the biggest
broadcast of all time or something.
Apollo lunar landing. TVTV stats that Let's see.
Let's Google that estimated 150 million Americans. 150 million
watched the Apollo landing. What this is like in plus the
replays. All that stuff. 150 million
people watched it live. Yeah, that's according to.
The National Aero Air and Space Museum, so they said, estimated
650 million people around the globe. 650 million people.
How many like Mr. Beast? OK, let's see how many, How
many? Let's see.
Mr. Beast. Beast.
There we go. Let's see what his top video is.
Mr. Beast. His top video?
Popular videos, 580 million for Mr. B, That's a lot.
I was going to, I was going to be like, yo, I bet it's like 100
million, but that's a lot. All right.
Maybe that isn't the best comparison because every one of
his videos, like all of his top videos have like hundreds of
millions, like 300 million views.
OK, that's not a very, that's not the best comparison.
But you know, 650 million people watching the lunar landing, it's
going to be very similar. I think it's going to be similar
to that. Yeah.
Well, TV was still black and
white screen only. Yeah, and you only had like 3
stations at that point, right? Yeah, it's crazy.
Just join the channel. Received.
Thank you. I wasn't sure if I had updated
you, but am recognized by the FAA to fly at 100,000 feet since
returning from Biosphere, where I did my Spacey pressurization
training and water egress. Oh dude Holly, That's cool.
That's very cool. I didn't know that 100,000 feet
that's up there dead. Put me in front of TV history.
Watch it. Yeah, that's.
Yeah, I'm gonna do that with my boy.
When Artemis goes again Artemis 2, I'll be like, dude, you gotta
watch this. 'Cause he's 3 now.
And when you know when Artemis 2 happens, it'll be like four or
five. So at that point I'll be like,
hey, check this out or I'll take him with me to the launch.
You know that's gonna. Be cool.
Oh, I got a kid now. I don't know if you guys know
this. Like a three-year old boy, Yeah,
if you've been following the channel.
For a long time I had some light, some massive life changes
within the last. Four months.
Three months. Yeah, I moved.
So little history here, girl. I used to date a long time ago.
We've always been, we've always talked, always connected.
But within the last, like 6 months, we decided to give it
another shot. And we're like, yeah, we've been
like, you know, we've been kind of in love for like the last in
this, like not Space Flight related, but we've been in love
for like the last 30 years. But we have like these different
paths in life. We can do it.
Can do it like the relationship thing.
And we're like, hey, we're both in good places.
Let's do this. So she has a kid.
And I'm like, whatever. I like kids.
They're cool. And then I was like, I live in
Vermont. She lives in Savannah, GA.
She has this really great job in Savannah, and I live in Vermont
and I do YouTube and podcasts for a living.
So I was like, whatever, I'll just go down there.
I got a studio. I can.
Just set it up anywhere. I don't care.
So here I am in Savannah, GA now.
Pretty crazy. I love it.
It's very cool and up close to NASA.
So like, that was another thing. Like, that's another selling
point. I was like, you're close to NASA
and. Like, cool.
Girl, cool kid. All right, let's do it.
So yeah, that was that was a wild, wild trip, though.
So now I got a little boy, and now I can I can teach him all
about spaceflight. He likes rockets.
He thinks they're cool. But I don't know if he was going
to like. The wildness.
I think he would like the wildness of the Artemis mission
because it's a lot of people. A million people will probably
show up for the Artemis launches.
Yeah, so. What's your podcast name?
It's called, I call it SpaceX Newspod.
It's like an actual podcast. It's similar to this.
And like these are like when I do these kind of shows, these
get uploaded to that too. I also have a show called the
Elon Musk Podcast, which I do news all about Elon's companies.
So that's another one. And I have another one that's
coming out soon about AI and technology and I haven't
launched that yet. I've done a soft launch, but I'm
not really happy with it. So I have to retool some stuff.
So yeah, I gotta, I gotta redo that.
But I'll let you guys know about that one too.
It's pretty cool and there's links in the.
Maybe in the description for the for the podcast, not sure, but
they're also in the. Also on the YouTube.
Page too. Yeah.
It's a science fest. Yeah, that's going to be crazy,
right? That's going to be awesome.
Spend George's about six hours. Drive to Huntsville, AL.
Yeah, six hours is not like super crazy.
It's like a, you know? It's a day trip.
You'd go there in one day and then you have to stay the night
and then do some Huntsville hunts, Huntsville AL stuff.
At NASA. That'd be fun.
That'd be really fun. But yeah, Starbase is about 20
hours from here. Plan on making a trip for IFT 4,
IFT 3. Not going to make it there.
Still getting my getting my bearings here.
I've only been here for about a month.
Still settling in. Finally got my studio set up.
I was on the kitchen table for the longest time and like the
studio was on the kitchen table for the longest time.
We didn't have any place to eat. Like I would eat at my computer
and everybody would like we'd eat around like my computer.
It was funny. Thoughts about IFT 3 success?
I think they've worked out some bugs from IFT 2 stage separation
I think is gonna be cleaner booster.
I don't think the booster. 'S gonna make it.
Just a hunch, no? Reasoning.
So I don't think Booster's gonna make it.
I think the ship's gonna do fine and the the experiments on the
ship are gonna do fine. They have a propellant transfer.
Experiment that they're. Going to be doing, and they're
also going to be doing a possible Starlink experiment on
the ship. So I think the ship's going to
be fine. I think they're going to be able
to do that. But I don't think the booster's.
Going to make it back, I think it's going to blow up again.
I think it's, I think it's going to be more successful than last
time. I just don't think it's going to
make it all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico in one piece.
I think IFT 4 and IFT 5 are going to be the turning points
for Booster and also the ship is going, I think they're gonna
start doing soft landings with Booster IFT 4 and IFT 5.
I think it's gonna be good then. But right now I I don't think
they I I think they I think they'll get to a good point.
But I don't think they're gonna be 100% successful landing both
the ship and the booster. I feel Booster 10 will make
Michael Maxey says feel. Booster 10 will make splash
down. Ship 28 May not survive reentry.
If it does it will splash down. Who do you think booster 10 will
make the splash down? I I I don't know.
I'm I'm hope. I hope they put the checks in
place to mitigate what happened last time.
I really do. Five and six for you.
Oh yeah, It seems like a seems like an interest.
Like we're right in the middle of like stuff's going to start
working anytime now. Like they might get lucky and
everything works. You know, like their engineering
is great, science is great, but they may just like a valve might
just, you know, valves are always, you know, in they're
always a thing, right? Things get clogged up.
So there's a possibility that happens and we lose a booster.
How many launches? This year and your guess, so
we're already in March, so that's three months in if they
even if they do a two-month turn around.
That would be. 7 altogether, if they do a 2:00-ish month turn
around, that'd be 7:00-ish six or seven, so I think they could.
Get 5 Yeah, I don't know. I it seems like you know 5:00 to
7:00 somewhere in that range. I think that's all they're going
to be able to do. I think it it's going to be
because as you know things happen.
This booster booster tent had to go back to the the Bay.
The ship had to get tested again.
Things happen, you know like if the maybe they're a couple weeks
behind. The FAA is also involved.
If SpaceX does this next test Florida State, the FAA will just
kind of like step back a little bit, be like, oh, that was
great, good job. Let's, you know, is there
anything that happens SpaceX and SpaceX will be like, yeah,
there's like this one or two, one or two things that we can
close out and then. They'll be able to fly.
Again, the FAA will approve them much faster, like every time,
because if they show that they can fly at a better cadence and
with, you know, more precision, I think they're gonna, I think
the FAA is gonna step up their game and just get them going,
you know, as soon as possible. Because the FAA, they released a
statement couple days ago that actually said that they are
ready. Like they're working with SpaceX
hand in hand, like ready to go. They want this thing to fly.
Like they're not holding SpaceX back.
They want everything to go. I'm trying to find out my tabs.
I don't think I have it, but they want them to go as fast as
possible. They wanted to launch as fast as
possible. So yeah, they have a, they have
a, you know, they have a vested interest in getting this thing
flying as soon as possible and as many times as possible.
So yeah, that's that's about it today, guys.
I appreciate you guys stopping by though.
I appreciate all the questions too.
So thanks. We have 69 likes, which is
really cool, but can we get 70? Let's see, can we also get Subs?
Let's see, 91,884. We got one sub in the last like
hour of me doing this, me talking my brains out.
So if somebody would be nice enough, hit the sub button.
Are they lifting it? Let me see, they're pretty
close. If they aren't lifting it right
now, it's in the in the waiting arms.
Of the. Of the chopsticks.
It's in the chopsticks now, but I don't see it lifting quite
yet. I'm looking at the streams right
now. I'm looking at NSF right now.
I don't see it lifting. Yeah, the the arms are way too
low on the ship for it to lift so soon enough, though soon
enough there might lift it today depending on the weather too.
The weather's always kind of sketchy down there, so in about
30 minutes. I mean there there's high.
Winds. It looks like some high winds
down there too, so. Yeah, but it's ready.
To ready to lift. It's pretty close.
So hopefully they'll get a lift today, maybe tomorrow.
So we like 70 views. Yeah, Very nice. 70 viewers.
Yep. Perfect.
All right. Thanks, guys.
I appreciate your time and I appreciate you spending your
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