SpaceX launched its fifth test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday and made a dramatic first catch of the rocket’s more than 20-story tall booster. It comes as SpaceX makes a big push to send people to the moon and Mars in the coming years. NBC News’ Steve Patterson has the latest, and what it means for the future of space travel.
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DO YOU RESPECT ELON MUSK?
I respect him as a visionary engineer. As a person, a human being … he’s a tool.
@@jrlaudiowe need him in government, we could save so much in taxes.
1000%. Now he needs to get his rear in the government too.
1000%. Now we need him in important positions too.
“Thank you Grace, I think you’re wrong”
— Ferris Bhuler’s Day Off
Trump or bust
Remember that Elon Musk supports Trump and this is another reason for you to vote for him this November.
The current NASA administrator is a democrat, and NASA keeps giving SpaceX contracts.
SpaceX will get contracts no matter who’s in the white house.
No
@@hifex_4275 Yes
Also remember Elon Musk is an immigrant.
@@hifex_4275 Yes! Categorically yes!
Again … media misses the moment. Not once did they show the actual catch. They cut each shot before the booster was caught. They had to cut away to the fire and flames, not the actual moment of success. Why do they even bother? Just the sensational stuff, not the meat of the story. Geez. ABC did the same thing, what is wrong with media these days? They refuse to cover stories completely, only the sensational aspects. Yet they wonder why people are not watching anymore. Youtubers did a better job … hobbyists. “Pro-media” outlets … they have become clueless. Cronkite was right when he left CBS, he said news media has lost its way.
Kudos to the Space X team.
And especially to Elon Musk, the one that shall not be named by this channel 🤣
@@Leonhart_93 The shame is on NBC, for becoming and remaining an unpatriotic, DEI- smitten organization, which hates anything associated with Republicans/Musk/Trump, with a primordial ferocity.
SpaceX.. the 8th wonder of the world
Elon is the lead engineer .. you’re brainwashed by cnn
Cope
Musks only involvement in this was money, he didn’t contribute to the idea or how to make it work, he just pays much smarter people to figure it out, and if you think that it was Elon, then you are delusional!😂
You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about
Space colonization to the moon and mars let’s Go USA USA. Just like building the railroad to the wild wild west
Except it’s not just Americans building this. It’s people from all over the world.
@@jorge10928 Yeah, but American wealth is the catalyst!
the bad news is that the booster cannot be reused unless the structure is repaired
it was a test to see if it was possible. Just like the original Falcon rockets before they are being reused like today.
Somebody doesn’t understand science nor progress…
It will be like the falcon boosters.
The tower is fine, from that angle it looks like it was hit but wasn’t.
One step to another step
Congratulations to Elon Musk and SpaceX! This is a huge step forward for humankind. We all need to forget the warmongering and look to an amazing future on the moon and beyond.
We have yet to discover this complex planet before it’s destroyed. What’s the fascination with inhabiting the moon?
@@ninod1502 Pretty small-minded to think exploring our planet and exploring space are mutually exclusive events. This is why I’m a biologist (aka explore/compile data on our planet) and leave the space travel to the aerospace engineers/scientists. Also, the moon would be an excellent place for a DNA storage facility, sort of like a Svalbard seed vault but on the moon.
Musk is one of the biggest warmongers though lol
Get Elon Musk out of it. He does 0.0000000001% of the work and get most of the credit for it. Take away his 13,000+ employees and he wouldn’t even be able to figure out how to unlock the doors to starbase.
@@ninod1502
1. Improves the chances of survive of humanity.
2. In the moon specifically, offers a better place for science and experimental studies because of low gravity, space stations are even better tho.
Stop just repeating that question and try search and think for yourself.
Thats what happens when the government stays out of development.
Yeah, if only the government had stayed out of it we might have made it to the moon 🤦🏻? We need a private company like Boeing to handle all of our space flights to make sure they are all as successful as the starliner 🤦🏻🤦🏻? Seriously, these bot comments aren’t even trying anymore.
WOW – just like JFK TELLING US THAT we’d be in space in 10 yrs
They just can’t bring themselves to say…Elon Musk! The owner of Space X.
Who cares who owns the company when the workers are the ones doing all this work. Any 5 year old can blurt out that they want to catch a rocket with chopsticks, it’s up to EVERYONE else at the company to make it happen and even calculate if it’s feasible.
@@ryanthompson3737 Who cares? Without him there would be no SpaceX in the first place, none at all.
@Leonhart_93 …And without the employees there would also be no spacex… the only difference is that there’ll always be a billionaire that has enough money to start a new company… the same can’t be said for hiring a whole bunch of new high skilled employees that can pick up where those employees left off.
@@ryanthompson3737 Duh!
Cant believe nbc is showing this.
Lol i know right..
When you become too good to ignore. Still they didn’t mention Elon Musk once.
Agreed. It’s actually quite surprising, despite the fact that this IS an undeniably important and equally stunning feat that those who are hating, their kind, could NEVER pull off.
Elon even effectively supplanted NASA, yet the usual never producers, the only ever ruiners and takers, hate the man.
it’s just too big of a news to ignore
People; EM didn’t do $hit other than lip service. Be thankful for the team of engineers and scientists behind all these projects. Stop idolizing an egomaniac. 🤦🏽
There’s more moving parts in a rocket company than in a rocket if you can believe it. Credit is owed where it’s due, Elon is a part of that team.
Jealousy. You’d rather see Humanity fail then see someone succeed. You are gross.
@@puppy6646 — you are obviously not very good at reading comprehension/analysis. Try again. 🤦🏽
@@mehnameehjeff6325 — yes, his lip service, which is costing US tax payers and arm and a leg. He got federal funding and is able to pay the SpaceX team what they deserve, that’s all.
All the EM groupies keep forgetting that he didn’t even come up with Tesla.
Idolizing an egomaniac already brought a disastrous president to the US. Stop idolizing egomaniac narcists. 🤦🏽
And who exactly created the company from the ground up with this vision in mind? Certainly not the state 🤣
台灣可向中國水庫發射髒彈 可先殺死中國幾千萬人口
Tim! LOL
haha I know
Lol
Well… India done that before 😂😂
Shut up kuch bhi kab ki hamne??
?
They haven’t
Congratulations SpaceX 🤩🤩
Star ship is so awesome.
And you managed not to mention Elon once which will please your political masters immensely.
He doesn’t need to be mentioned, the company SpaceX was mentioned, it’s enough.
@@apex9806 SpaceX is Elon Musk and Elon Musk is SpaceX.
@AntonMilev No, spacex is it’s thousands and thousands of employees all being under the direction of the president, Gwynne Shotwell. Shotwell is also the COO which means her literal job is to deal with the day to day activities of the company. Stop glazing musk when his ONLY job as a CEO is to give a direction for the company to go while EVERYONE ELSE does the work to make it happen. I mean… this is no more evident than the fact that some of his employees work 12 hour shifts, but somehow Elon musk can run 3 companies at the same time… how can he work 36 hours per day and still have time to rally for Trump and spew nonsense on Twitter? Oh right… because he doesn’t really work unless he has to sign a document.
So Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc etc can replace Elon and still achieve what SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, X, etc etc has achieved? :/ i don’t think so.
@@ryanthompson3737 “The pen is mightier than the sword” The decicions made by Musk ultimately carries more burden than any under his company.
Elon Musk is not from this world
Is it a deleted scene from the movie Don’t Look Up?
Who tf cares? This sh is absolutely unimportant for 99.99% of Humanity.
Fix Earth problems NOW!
Unimportant???
Lol, the smartphone you writing on to everyday conveniences from technological advances spawned from engineering and science accomplishments like this.
@@QuangNguyen-ng5zh Ah yes, let’s spend billions of Taxpayer dollars on Space X so that it (maybe) pays off decades later in the form of some random discovery (that may or may not happen) instead of spending it on things we ACTUALLY NEED RIGHT NOW.
This is all going to be used for Military purposes and you know it.
No wonder you are voting left.
SpaceX was able to successfully push “Create” on an A.I. video website. Wooooo! Heck ding dang yeah!
Source?
You’re not the brightest
Trolls and morons are dealt with the same way. Ignore/block them.
Same news channel thats wants Elon locked up in prison for the crime of free speech
The heavies of crimes these days 🤣
Nbc is showing this 😂
It was very late too. All mainstream took very long to report this
@@TheRajmoneycnn still hasn’t lol
@Neutronism7 yea i kept checking.. they havnt its been over a day. However, CNN in brazil did. Not in US.
So, Mike Massimino is a real astronaut. 👍
He was in The Big Bang Theory mocking Howard. I thought he’s an actor…
In the meantime, Wall Street analysts doubt whether the Cybercabs will succeed.
This was without a doubt one of the greatest things I’ve seen all year. SpaceX, Elon, you’ve done it again. 🔥👏🏻👏🏻
NASA sucks !!!
It’s Tim! 🙂
1 minute air time for a historic space flight that brings mankind one step closer to becoming a multi-planet civilization.
If Elon would abandon Trump…he’d get a ton of airtime…but feminist Democrats are such spoilers, that even if it were the first brain transplant they’d ignore it…BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICS!!
Make Space Great Again. Elon Musk
Kudos to Everyday Astranaut
CNN hasn’t reported this.. lol.
What’s wrong with them
They dont report on Elon’s companies achievements since he supports Trump. This is one of the biggest engineering achievement of the 21th century and they ignore it for political reasons. They are evil.
… They did report it. It’s literally on their main page right now
They all hate Elon. This achievement is massive and should be blasted all over the headlines. It’s sad when the news media black ball a massive achievement because of their bias.
There’s a big catch alright.😊
Blue Origin had devised or used a similar landing technology for its “reusable” rocket. Instead of using cranes or “robotic arms” to hold a returning rocket back into place, Blue Origin had a circular landing pad (launchpad) where the launch vehicle’s boosters vertically [and autonomously] landed where the spacecraft took off. The rocket systems likely use sensors, possibly with AI assistance, that guide them to land in designated landing spots.
And SpaceX has been doing that for half a decade already, delivering stuff to orbit and ISS.
Also Blue Origin has yet to succeed anything SpaceX hasn’t done at least 3 years before, so I don’t know why you try to use them to discredit SpaceX lol
Blue Origin has yet to deliver any payload into space let alone put something into orbit. All talk no action from Blue Origin thus far.
couldnt it have just soft landed anywhere with a parachute ? just like re-entry capsules?
No, that would be impossible and against the intent
They want to be able to rapidly reuse it. The plan is to simply refuel it and fly again, possibly hours later, just like an airplane. If it used parachutes to land in the ocean, they’d have to pluck it out of the ocean, tote it back to shore. Also saltwater is highly corrosive.
So again, maybe the short way to answer the question is that we don’t want rockets parachute into the ocean any more than we want passenger airlines to do so.
Hope that helps.
🤎🙌🐾👌
Might of just been the video playing in reverse
Seriously? Have you even looked at the video closely?
I think your brain is playing in reverse 🤣
😂
Elon has 1000s of engineers working 16-18hr days, it’s OK they didn’t mention Elon people, now get off your knees and quit giving him sloppys 😂 I promise you’ll be ok
He’s the reason spacex exists, maybe think about that
@@turkishhusla don’t get me wrong I’m a fan of their work, but the way people are on elons nuts like he’s a god just cracks me up
Yes, all employees under him, at the company he single handedly created.
@@Leonhart_93 he didn’t singlehandedly create it, he only owns 42% of it, the others who fronted the remainder of its cost to get it going also helped create it too 🤭
@@Leonhart_93 btw he didn’t start Tesla either or PayPal if you think he did . One of them was practically hijacked from the original owner, go learn which one 😆
And the naysayers keep on going about the bots being tele-operated.
So cool🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks to Elon Musk… Must really hurt all the fascists at MSNBC to report thos while their daddy Warmongerming Boeing can’t even fly people bavk from space.
This is worthless
Ah!!! Kamala voter spotted!!!
@@josephgriffin2388 You have some MUSK on your chin.
This was Elon Musk’s vision! NOT NASA, NOT MANKIND! Give credit to the right person.
Respectfully, it was very likely the idea of several unknown engineers at SpaceX.
with all due disrespect, elon couldn’t assemble a lego duplo kit if his life depended on it.
Elon single handedly made SpaceX, he clearly deserves credit.
@@newrev9er You have no idea what your talking about. Musk’s idea of making the rocket out of stainless steel was not accepted by the engineers at SpaceX, but today it turned out to be correct. The same goes for Mechazilla – it was Musk’s idea, and all his engineers were against it. The problem is that leftists in the US cannot accept the fact that such a talented man abandoned the Democratic Party and became a Republican. And that’s why we see such incompetent comments from people like you talking about some anonymous engineers at SpaceX
@@newrev9er Do some research. This was all Elon Musk. What ever a person does they will need a team to bring it into reality but it was his idea.
It is a the technical prowess, ok.
Then what ?
Please don’t tell you work for NASA no more.
Meanwhile Boeing (ran by bean counters) is stuck in space
No… spacex rescued them recently.
Comment below is correct- Elon got them
Boink is being smitten by shameful DEI. Risking people’s lives!
@@HurdleHelpsnot yet, the rescue crew is up there and boeing is still trying to get a starliner to save them, so boeing is keeping them up there for a few more months
USA, USA, USA. Awesome job, Space X!
Fake news.
Not like I watched it in person or something.
Pretty freaking amazing!
Sure glad Elon Musk is on our Team!
Finally someone who we have,who makes sci fi ,real 😊🎉 love Elon musk x❤
Science fiction, truly, comes to real life ❤
We want more Elon Musk like of peoples in this plant to make more usefull things like this ❤
Why does it always look fake?
Because it’s cool. I watched it in person.
Because, whether you admit it or not, you sound like a Kamala voter who is secretly angry that Elon is supporting Trump.
NBC don’t even mention ELON MUSK….THIS IS MUSK DOING THIS !
He did make the idea, and he did create the company, but you should be thanking the engineers and the scientists who literally made it possible.
Engineers did that. NOt ELON MUSK. He is not a scientist, nor an engineer, nor an inventor. He’s a guy who convinced banks to trust email addresses as ID.
Then why can’t boeing do that they have the scientist and engineers 🤔 🙄 ( I’m not us citizen so i don’t care your politics or your politician answer my question only)
@@rajithasheran.k6532 it takes money. Musk has that. I’ll give him credit for taking a big gamble.
@@rajithasheran.k6532 musk poached a lot of their engineers with more money.
Yeah well, they didn’t create the company itself that allowed them to do this.
@@Leonhart_93 I just think engineers never get the credit they deserve. i am one.
No dei involved
Perfect & about time 😮
Whoa no smearing I’m surprised
that is the most shocking thing. Media hates free speech so much I am surprised they didn’t say the rocket was wearing blackface
Shocking they even talked about their 2nd biggest political foe. Ofc bad orange man bad number uno 😂😂
How is this not bigger news!
It is! But the state news are all bought, I am amazed they even showed this footage. But they avoided Elon’s name 🤣
@@Leonhart_93 it’s so childish. Hope it changes one day.
@@mannydrives It’s not only childish, but also criminal. If it was after them they would rather eliminate true progress than giving credit to the other side.
Because Elon Musk owns Space X, and this is NBC
They don’t like Elon and his politics
Elon! Say his name, I know you are very politically biased, but you can’t worm your way out of this one!
They don’t say the NASA ceo’s name every time they do something.
@@SaltyGT Who cares about some random guy employed by the government. I care about the guy that took it upon himself to spearhead the deployment of the future.
precisely.. they had to report this news as this is just too big to ignore.
@@Leonhart_93 lol, the fact that you think Musk is some genius engineer that created all of this just shows your level of gullibility and lack of education. The fact that you think Musk isn’t an employee for the government is pretty funny because, he is, and without the massive amounts of money and resources the government gives him, he wouldn’t have any of this. Fan boys like yourself are a dime a dozen and it shows how dumb people are getting. Maybe try getting an education would be more beneficial to you instead of just fanboying over businessmen.
@@Member00101 I do think that. He invests his money in things that he thinks will lead to human prosperity. The other billionaires just sit comfortably on their wealth. Musk is a genius, and I couldn’t even comprehend all these things he said he was going to do a few years ago.
And he is not employed by the government because the left hates him, hilariously enough. Well, they just shot themselves in the foot.
I if they can park a rocket on a dime you should be able to park your car between the lines people 😂
you have a very valid point, they parked the equivalent of a 20 story building with accuracy down to the inch, its not hard to park a car.
Jesus. Cnn telling the truth for once
What about blue origin?
Amazing. Makes helicopter flight (10,000 parts flying in close formation) seem like child’s play.
Meh
Meh????
Why Not use Elon Musk name in this??? Oh that’s right it’s because he Endorsed the man who will save this country and that’s TRUMP! Elon Trump Vance Tulsi RFK Jr 2024- The White House Space X 🎉
Its because all he did really was envision the rocket, they don’t mention the NASA ceo every time they do something cool.
Private sector doing wonders.
Guess you missed the part about NASA.
@@jpablo700 NASA is not a private company if you look it up. I m talking about ‘Private’ companies.
@@imranm7628 glad we can agree NASA isn’t a private company. Revisit 0:58 and understand a little more how NASA enables, supports with expertise, data, engineers, etc and funds a lot of SpaceX. This isn’t just Elon Musk or the private sector doing it alone.
@@jpablo700 There is one thing that’s painful for NASA: a single such launch costs them around 2 billions, while it costs SpaceX around 90 millions. That’s a 20x inefficiency cost differential…
NASA doing blunders 😅
A victory for Elon and other African American-owned businesses everywhere
Elon’s 12-year-old idea of catching a rocket booster mid-air with chopsticks? It sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi movie where physics takes a day off! Imagine pitching that in a boardroom—”So, we’re going to grab this 22-ton rocket out of the sky, like you’re picking up sushi.” Yet here we are, watching him turn wild ideas into reality. The man’s not just a living Einstein; he’s a modern-day mad scientist, blending genius with just enough crazy to make it work. If rockets were chess pieces, Elon would already be calling checkmate…from Mars!
Blue Origin boosters land without any type of capturing device.
So does spacex. Who do you think invented the tec?
This should be the biggest news in the past 60 years but they don’t like Elon!
Took them a day to finally decide to cover this, too big to ignore😂
NBC Musk haters in meltdown mode 😂
I’m not a fan of him personally, but this is flipping amazing.
Elon Must’s vision will take mankind into next step to the better future.
NBC in full mourning mode.😅
Meanwhile NASA still living in the 1990s
I don’t see CNN reporting this.
Bro lets get rid of nasa
Pshh… Defund NASA
How did they not just give us the uncut clip? News is trash jeez
I wonder why MSM isn’t blasting this all over. Looks like they no longer adore Elon musk. I wonder why?
I am from south east Asia. We all know leftoid zombies hates him. A win for musk is a win for maga/conservative crowd. If you watch black or brown commentator/jurno talk about musk. U might realize how racist they are towards him. When they try to paint him as a villain they always call him cis white man. When he achieve something special suddenly his race or creed doesn’t matter..
@@asruluveira “Leftoid zombies” is a great name. They are to call themselves the “progressive” side, but they are the complete opposite of that.
can blue origin throw in the towel already?
Elon!!
Yeeeeeeeessss!!!!!! Amazing!!!
100% fake .Look at the cell phone that the watchers have holding above head . You won’t see any rocket smoke or anything in their screens while they are recording the launch and landing. It’s all fake
Ok, say that to those that were there in person 🤣
How far will you go to discredit the true progress when it’s by someone you don’t like?
CGI is awesome now days
If you want spacex to progress more, vote Trump.
Elon had to move out from democrat infested Comifornia. And FAA hurdles him as much as possible.
There are a lot to achieve for Elon & SpaceX. Vote MAGA
Truth
I really loved the quote from the visionary African-American entrepreneur who reached this milestone in space travel and brought glory to the USA. Oh yeah, there’s no quote because no one is allowed to disagree with the ruling class or they will be un-personed. You’re not journalists. You’re acting more like petty children.
Would have been a bigger news if Space X was government owned
“It must be real because it looks so fake”
What a joke all these people falling for gimmicks and useless endeavors. What’s the point this is nothing more than a show for ignorant masses. Does anyone really know what the importance of this is other than keeping trash from falling in the ocean or floating around in space. Think about it these boosters that are caught or land back on earth are not reused. They go back to the ship and are completely rebuilt and not even with existing components. Everything is replaced. So again I ask what’s the point other than to try and get attention from the ignorant masses out there that will fall for this crap. By the way there is nothing revolutionary or innovative about anything he does. It’s all just a spoiled little man trying ti get attention. I want to see one of those booster land or be caught and reused the next day. Not gonna happen. All this guy does is take others inventions and try to make them his own with some rebranding that isn’t even original. His flamethrower nothing more than a roofing torch from Home Depot. All these self driving cars and shuttles. I had those growing up they were called city buses and taxis. They only cost a couple bucks at that. Why would I pay more to put my life in danger from these autonomous vehicles. Internet we already have it. He couldn’t even create his own social media forum he had to buy an established one and then ruin it. Why because no one would give him the attention he wants if he started his own which isn’t that hard by the way. Let me know when he actually does something worth a dime.
They’ve literally reused some of the booster modules over 300 times – are you on crack?
Boeing gets awarded twice as much money than Space-X for doing nothing.
Congrats Elon and team!! You are American treasures propelling us into new innovative technologies instead of constantly telling people they are oppressed.
did they use young Sheldon notebook?
Go SpaceXTrump2024
Let’s go.