When I see those boosters land on droneships, I find its so hard to get a scale of it. It always looks so small. But this footage for whatever reason really showed how massive this thing is. Felt like I was watching a building move
As soon as I heard the motor start and realized what was happening I was shocked. Turns out they can hear you scream in space, assuming your scream is expelling enough gas to reach orbital velocity lol.
Just after the first Electron launch, I posted a message congratulating them on a successful flight, and tweaked their noses for not being able to land their first stage. So - to the Electron team, you have redeemed yourselves. Well done. Well effing done! 🏆
@@jackkreacherr9339 Did you straight up forget early SpaceX after watching so many successful SpaceX launches. Both companies fail and iterate over each of their designs a lot.
@@chrissavage5966 Yeah, i'm surprised it can take that much lateral force, without taking even the slightest damage. I mean the structure has to survive at least another launch, after withstanding that brutal landing. And it still has to be absolutely lightweight. Hats off to the engineers at SpaceX!
@@chrissavage5966 Yeah same, you really don't get a sense that it's such an extreme AOA when you're just seeing the footage from the camera a'top of the boosters
I live in Perth Australia. In the 1960's I would look for Radio America on my parents SW radio in the hope of hearing the launch or any information about the latest NASA launch. Now I watch it live in colour and high definition. We live in amazing times. Well done Scott on your efforts, most appreciated in Perth Australia.
Is it soot? I thought the upper stage was hydrazine fuelled, so no carbon is involved. It might be thermal damage from the rocket exhaust. That stuff’s pretty spicy.
@@Parax77 You're correct about the 2nd stage, it uses RP-1/LOx just like the first stage. It even uses the same engine as the first stage, just with a nozzle optimized for vacuum operation. As for the third/kick stage, it uses some kind of custom "green" monopropellant that Rocket Lab developed. No idea what's in it, but I don't think it's hydrazine.
@@epicspacetroll1399 Yeah, Rocket Labs is very proud of that 'green' propellant, as well they should be. Hydrazine is nasty stuff which makes it quite expensive to handle. While not something you'd want to drink, their fuel apparently doesn't require any sort of hazmat stuff.
On that Sentinel-6 launch, right before the boostback burn, there was a shot of the booster from the camera on the second stage. The camera switches away as the boostback burn is igniting and boy was that unfortunate as we would have seen the booster yeet out of the frame. On the flip-side, this footage is getting better every launch and I'm just happy to be around to watch it all. Remember when we were all waiting for FH to launch for years, or when Boca Chica was just a random little piece of property that SpaceX bought that nobody thought much of, or when RocketLab was just another Small-sat company that had yet to launch anything of note. What a time to be alive.
I like how the second stage lighting @5:55 turns the pristine shiny carbon fibre and stainless steel surfaces inside the booster into dirty matte surfaces covered in carbon exhaust. It's a nice reminder that launching a rocket isn't just clean rooms and equations carefully calculated by rocket scientists, but also real-world engineering.
Holy crap, I hadn't seen that view of Falcon 9 doing it's entry and landing burn from the ground. That was crazy cool. Gives a much better representation of how it flies to avoid and target the landing zone.
Hello Mr. Manley. Thank you for preparing this video from so many different sources. It is a treat to watch, and extremely informative. Regards, Anthony. - from the UK.
"Gnome Alone If you are reading this achievement, Gabe Newell has successfully launched Gnome Chompski into space. If you did not also receive the achievement 'Manufacturing Ascent', Newell has abandoned his plans to shoot Noam Chomsky into space." - achievement from Half-Life: Alyx (and probably other H-L games)
I once miswrote "Noam Chompsky" in a linguistics course, in its online discussion section, and was wryly corrected by the prof ("that's _Chomsky_ "), before all. An eternal facepalm memory. Nobody in that field gets his name wrong.
@@-danR LOL - That's hilarious. I studied some of his work from a different, but related angle: his work in linguistics is used widely in Computer Science for describing grammars (e.g. of programming languages.) I suspect this is where the Half Life team knew him from (and/or his political work.)
Thank you Scott, Nice to see some quality footage of the SpaceX flights because NASA made a proper mess of things. And the detailed walk through of the Electron launch was cool.
Well with an ever shrinking budget, I’m sure NASA’s priorities for showing footage is not at the top. We should be thrilled that we’re getting some in the first place, because we deserve what we get!
I am shortly headed to Brownsville for probably the coolest temp job ever, and that footage of the F9 was elucidating and inspiring! Thanks for compiling this.
Wow, seeing that F9 booster genuinely flying through the atmosphere was incredibly stunning! Thanks to whoever did the tracking shot, that must've been quite hard!
Best coverage of both rockets ,that stage seperation was epic and the falcon 9 return was the very best ever shown ,this is why we love Rocket so much .
man... both the Rocketlab booster separation and SpaceX booster decent into Vandenberg are just so amazingly spectacular. 10 years ago I'd never would have thought we'd get this kind of stuff even in my children's lifetime. Amazing, thanks for putting this together.
The achievements are a nice little touch that makes me smile. As far as the audio and video improvements go- I’m sure there is a lot to be gained by having improved media collection during launch flight and landing. Very cool
I'll let you finish but first more favorites are 7:23 clouds and fog rolling down the sides, the separation at 5:53 & 4:14 and and legs at 10:23 , exhaust at 11:08
A tiny detail on the Electron rocket stage separation video - If you go frame by frame (use the ',' and '.' keys on youtube), just as the stage separation mechanism engages, you can see the entire first stage flex from the force.
7:00 minutes wow! And I missed it.... Well thank you Scott! Normally I catch vids of this direct on my tv recorded and stuff or live on my phone or something like that but I missed this and I'm so glad you showed it because I never would have seen it and that was easily one of the coolest booster separations I've seen.
_"I couldn't even be down there because of, you know, family commitments up here. And it turned out that was totally the wrong call because the visibility was stunning."_ 🤣
Could have watched by telescope, he has the equipment at home, might need custom telescope tracking software fed with the launch profile converted to a 3D path.
Whhoaaa! Stage separation *with* audio 😲 awesome 👍I love the way you can see the engine firing just off centre and spiraling slightly as it corrects itself while moving away.. Great footage and really enjoyed this video. Great stuff 👍
And I remember when it was a big deal we got to see some grainy slow-frame-rate footage of John Glenn in a Mercury capsule. (Think it was him, or some other Mercury flight.)
@@ashokiimc I watched the entire Apollo mission on a small black & white TV, my Dad preferred a sharper picture, and most affordable color TVs weren't as sharp, especially out where we didn't get a strong signal. I was almost 14. Watching the landing, hearing Armstrong's (Aldrin's?) call-outs, was an tense/optimistic/exhilarating experience. Watching him come down the ladder and step onto the Moon is indescribable - thrilling and surreal. I was a big sci-fi fan from an early age, and it was crazy to see reality. Had followed everything in print on the Gemini program. My Dad was thrilled too. He'd seen jet planes become a reality when about 18, and had worked for a few years as an engineering draftsman at Grumman in the early 1950s on some Navy jets, so he had an interest in seeing their Lunar Module succeed. My uncle actually worked on the LM, was an engineer at Grumman. It was also a singular experience to see Walter Cronkite so emotional once Armstrong was on the Moon - men in his position didn't show emotions like that. Apollo 13 was strange. Extremely worried and also optimistic. I felt the U.S. space program was too good to have a loss of crew failure. STS 1 was such a thrill, a triumphal return to space by the U.S. on a space craft so far in advance of anyone else. And another fulfillment of the sci-fi vision. I had been reading and watching everything I could when it was being developed. Ditto for the ISS being built, and shots of the astronauts floating and zooming around inside in zero-g never get old. Speaking of sci-fi fulfillment: Watching SpaceX land a booster was something I expected to see ever since I was a kid watching old space sci-fi from the 50s. And it finally happened! Can't wait to see what Starship does.
@@donjones4719 Thanks for sharing! As a new space enthusiast i was in tears watching the falcon heavy launch i can't imagine what it must have been like back then! And to think the best is yet to come
Thank you Scott .. my wife totally loves it when I play your videos, apparently you have the sexiest voice .. makes Sunday morning in NZ so much more interesting ;)
3:45 that’s incredible! So the initial separation is done by springs! Those rods around the perimeter are all pretensioned and have enough combined strength to lob the 2nd stage well and clear from the booster... everyday is a classroom day!!!
That Electron stage separation video (with audio) is awesome. Never thought I'd be saying SpaceX needed to up their broadcast game. Rocketlabs: 1 SpaceX: 0
Hey Scott! I was lucky enough to attend the Sentinel 6 Launch and took some footage myself, but I haven't been 100% sure about the clouds that formed around the booster going up and down. In my video that I tried to publish as fast as humanly possible (small channel probs) I added a label stating that these clouds were some sort of persistent mach cone - one that didn't vanish immediately due to the humidity in the air, but I had a couple comments that claimed, as you did in this video, that the clouds were from a thin layer of humid air that happened to correspond with approximately mach 1. In your remix tracking video, the cylindrical cloud formed on the way up occurs at 1:14 in the video, at an altitude of 11.1 km and a speed of 1310 km/h. The cloud on the way down appears at 6:02, an altitude of 9.4 km, and a speed of 1392 km/h. Both clouds seem to happen at different elevations, and both at speeds just over the sea-level speed of sound (well over the 10km speed of sound). When I went to go time my footage against real numbers, I was frustrated by the lack of official telemetry, and I'm wondering how accurate you believe this tracking data to be. It seems to me that these are either a layer effect, so they should both occur at the same altitude, or a mach effect, where they should both occur at exactly mach 1, but nothing quite lines up. You have much better footage of the multi-puff decent cloud than I do, and it really doesn't look like a classic mach cone to me, but I guess the underside of a falcon 9 isn't as nice and pointy as the tip of a plane, so maybe it does something slightly weird? Not wanting to be wrong on the internet, I've been looking for more information for the last week... Anyways, sorry to comment with a book. I enjoyed your rundown as usual, and was curious what you thought of the telemetry and these weird clouds. Thanks!
True, might’ve been some tape or those plastic things that are used to hold the cables, which I forgot the name now haha. I don’t think the cables themselves melted
Personally I wish the number of good youtube pages that show these launches would stop talking just prior to launch and let us enjoy the launch, even if there isnt any actual sound from the launch itself, NSF is worst for doing this and one commentator in particular often gets a little too excited
Great video, never get tired of those booster landings. Just amazing to see the land, it brings back memories as a child watching sci fi movies seeing them land vertically
At the altitude the rocket is at, there's probably a seal being broken which evacuates the inside of the stage separation area before stage separation occurs. Just uninformed speculation though, I have no idea if that's right it just makes sense to me.
I also saw that during the live stream and I think that compartment (interstage) was pressurized (1 atm at liftoff?), so they let the trapped air out from the interstage in an controlled manner prior to stage separation. That in turn makes that metal relax (not having the 1 atm of air pressing against it anymore), a very interesting camera shot indeed.
@@Xelnah I think you're right sounds like a good explanation. Mabey they want to prevent uncontrolled forces on the second stage because of the air trapped in the interstage
@@rensbakker7710 makes me wonder if it could even be pressurised to high pressure, making it more rigid like the pressurised fuel-tanks. _Could_ save weight in the interstage to do that.
Thanks Scott, I really loved this compilation of extremely cool additional footage and the interesting commentary & explanations of exactly what we are seeing. 😊😎 Hope you will do many more like these in the future. 👍👍 ✌️🚀🖖
It is definitely giving the tweeters on my ipad a good workout. It would be absolutely brutal on headphones. Too bad RUclips doesn’t have an auto de-essing algorithm.
@Andrew Ongais huh? It was a video with less than perfect EQ. I love Scott Manley videos, but his mic has been messed up lately. I hope he sees this because his content is phenomenal and I'd hate for something as simple as audio mixing to take away from them. And the rocket clips didn't have ear piercing treble, kid. 😉
Anything Noam says or writes is worth paying attention to but whenever I see his name I hear Ali G saying, "I'm here with my main man, none other than Norman Chompsky." 😆
Holy hell those clips are so freaking amazing, thanks for sharing. I got such a buzz from that rocket lab stage separation in particular, the sound of it all, despite being in vacuum, such a thrill!
That's probably the best footage of a F9 landing I've ever seen.
Agreed. Makes me wanna see it in real life even more!
So it would seem..
I agree
When I see those boosters land on droneships, I find its so hard to get a scale of it. It always looks so small. But this footage for whatever reason really showed how massive this thing is. Felt like I was watching a building move
I replay the footage 8 x its great
The sound during the Electron stage separation is the most amazing thing ever.
As soon as I heard the motor start and realized what was happening I was shocked.
Turns out they can hear you scream in space, assuming your scream is expelling enough gas to reach orbital velocity lol.
Must've watched it two dozen times lol.
After that shot, I have to watch Expanse again...
It's something that should be added to Kerbal Space Program 2, or at least a mod for KSP.
When it was shared on twitter, I must have sat and watched it a dozen or more times. Fantastic
Rocket Lab deserves more attention in my opinion. What they achieve with the budget they have is incredible.
Just after the first Electron launch, I posted a message congratulating them on a successful flight, and tweaked their noses for not being able to land their first stage. So - to the Electron team, you have redeemed yourselves. Well done. Well effing done! 🏆
If/When they discover life on Venus, that may be when the attention goes past enthusiasts like you and I.
They fail at more then half or what they attempt. Not worth anyones attention yet.
@@jackkreacherr9339 I'm guessing you don't do R&D. Failing is learning.
@@jackkreacherr9339 Did you straight up forget early SpaceX after watching so many successful SpaceX launches. Both companies fail and iterate over each of their designs a lot.
That footage where the booster is flying horizontally is amazing!
It's falling with style.
Never appreciated it has such a large AOA on descent. The Starship descent now makes a load more sense.
@@chrissavage5966 Yeah, i'm surprised it can take that much lateral force, without taking even the slightest damage. I mean the structure has to survive at least another launch, after withstanding that brutal landing.
And it still has to be absolutely lightweight. Hats off to the engineers at SpaceX!
@@chrissavage5966 Yeah same, you really don't get a sense that it's such an extreme AOA when you're just seeing the footage from the camera a'top of the boosters
@@dabeste6163 Not to mention, one of them has been flown and landed 7 times.
I live in Perth Australia. In the 1960's I would look for Radio America on my parents SW radio in the hope of hearing the launch or any information about the latest NASA launch.
Now I watch it live in colour and high definition. We live in amazing times. Well done Scott on your efforts, most appreciated in Perth Australia.
Ditto.
3:46 I Love how fast everything turns from clean and shiny to soot..
That's also where I found out what happened to my old pogo stick.
Is it soot? I thought the upper stage was hydrazine fuelled, so no carbon is involved. It might be thermal damage from the rocket exhaust. That stuff’s pretty spicy.
@@WineScrounger I'm pretty sure 2nd stage on Electron is still is RP-1 & LOX (Third or Kick Stage may well be Hydrazine.)
@@Parax77 You're correct about the 2nd stage, it uses RP-1/LOx just like the first stage. It even uses the same engine as the first stage, just with a nozzle optimized for vacuum operation.
As for the third/kick stage, it uses some kind of custom "green" monopropellant that Rocket Lab developed. No idea what's in it, but I don't think it's hydrazine.
@@epicspacetroll1399 Yeah, Rocket Labs is very proud of that 'green' propellant, as well they should be. Hydrazine is nasty stuff which makes it quite expensive to handle. While not something you'd want to drink, their fuel apparently doesn't require any sort of hazmat stuff.
I love this. that electron separation is a work of art.
Indeed
YOINK
On that Sentinel-6 launch, right before the boostback burn, there was a shot of the booster from the camera on the second stage. The camera switches away as the boostback burn is igniting and boy was that unfortunate as we would have seen the booster yeet out of the frame. On the flip-side, this footage is getting better every launch and I'm just happy to be around to watch it all.
Remember when we were all waiting for FH to launch for years, or when Boca Chica was just a random little piece of property that SpaceX bought that nobody thought much of, or when RocketLab was just another Small-sat company that had yet to launch anything of note. What a time to be alive.
I like how the second stage lighting @5:55 turns the pristine shiny carbon fibre and stainless steel surfaces inside the booster into dirty matte surfaces covered in carbon exhaust. It's a nice reminder that launching a rocket isn't just clean rooms and equations carefully calculated by rocket scientists, but also real-world engineering.
On behalf of parents, with kids who need the Starship Hospital in Auckland, NZ: thank you space fans.
Praise Lord Gaben, the Gaming Jesus! And also thank you gamers!
FYI, the fundraising effort on the Electron launch was, fittingly, for the Starship children's hospital in Auckland.
He's really leaning in to his NZ residency application, apparently.
@@rpavlik1 Can't blame him, really...
@@rpavlik1 In an interview he said that he wants to move a lot of valve to NZ, im not sure though
starships victims will no survive
Thank you Scott for making those rocket launches even better.
Holy crap, I hadn't seen that view of Falcon 9 doing it's entry and landing burn from the ground. That was crazy cool. Gives a much better representation of how it flies to avoid and target the landing zone.
Hello Mr. Manley. Thank you for preparing this video from so many different sources. It is a treat to watch, and extremely informative. Regards, Anthony. - from the UK.
Easily the best footage I've seen in 40yrs of watching us go to space.
do you remember where you were during the Columbia disaster ?
I'd say the F9 landing timelapse is a contender.
Mr. Manley, I know you hear this all the time, but thank you. Your excitement and passion fuel others wonderment of space.
"In space, no one can hear you scream". But they can hear you burn. Nice.
Jesus Scott, amazing compilations of videos.
Thank you so much
"...Gaming headsets in their mission control."
What's next? Using KSP for their concept animations?
Using KSP as concept animation. Sound like a great idea
@@rizaradri316 Probably requires a custom mod to add their own hardware.
KSP is for R&D, of course.
KSP for mission planning itself perhaps
@@johndododoe1411 There's a mod already, Dodo Labs.
Excellent visuals and explanatory commentary. Thanks Scott!
I wish all rocket launches got achievements like that
Great video. Thanks for bringing us this footage Scott 👍
"Gnome Alone
If you are reading this achievement, Gabe Newell has successfully launched Gnome Chompski into space. If you did not also receive the achievement 'Manufacturing Ascent', Newell has abandoned his plans to shoot Noam Chomsky into space." - achievement from Half-Life: Alyx (and probably other H-L games)
I once miswrote "Noam Chompsky" in a linguistics course, in its online discussion section, and was wryly corrected by the prof ("that's _Chomsky_ "), before all. An eternal facepalm memory. Nobody in that field gets his name wrong.
@@-danR LOL - That's hilarious. I studied some of his work from a different, but related angle: his work in linguistics is used widely in Computer Science for describing grammars (e.g. of programming languages.) I suspect this is where the Half Life team knew him from (and/or his political work.)
Can confirm it is on HL2:EP2 and L4D2
Yes
Scott - this is my fav of all your videos. Excellently done, thank you
How, just how so many people don't understand the beauty of rocket launches?
Always gets me chills.
Scott, keep doing these videos and they might leave a message for you in the fairing. Would be cool!
The separation video w/sound is absolutely fantastic!
Man, this stage separation is so cool.
Speechless. Fantastic. Thank you Scott !!!
Thank you Scott, Nice to see some quality footage of the SpaceX flights because NASA made a proper mess of things. And the detailed walk through of the Electron launch was cool.
NASA hasn’t had good launch commentators since Apollo.
Well with an ever shrinking budget, I’m sure NASA’s priorities for showing footage is not at the top. We should be thrilled that we’re getting some in the first place, because we deserve what we get!
watching the payload engines ignite was so awesome! Technology of filming these events just keeps getting better and better!
You’ve been GNOMED!
Heroic footage on the F9 landing! It deserves some kind of a prize! Wow!
Been with ya for 7 years, keep it up Scott!
That stage separation shot was incredible to see and hear
3:45 Okay...that was insanely cool!
I am shortly headed to Brownsville for probably the coolest temp job ever, and that footage of the F9 was elucidating and inspiring! Thanks for compiling this.
I Love watching the falcon 9 booster coming in !!!
Wow, seeing that F9 booster genuinely flying through the atmosphere was incredibly stunning! Thanks to whoever did the tracking shot, that must've been quite hard!
Rocket Lab may not be as flashy as some of the bigger kids on the block, but they sure know how to put on a show when it's their turn to shine.
Yeah, they're doing amazing for how small they are as a company.
Best coverage of both rockets ,that stage seperation was epic and the falcon 9 return was the very best ever shown ,this is why we love Rocket so much .
Thanks Scott!
I like that you appreciate the beauty of space flight. A lot of engineers only care about the nuts and bolts.
The turn around of landing and going transonic in the 8 minute window blows my mind.
Thanks Scott, amazing work!
man... both the Rocketlab booster separation and SpaceX booster decent into Vandenberg are just so amazingly spectacular. 10 years ago I'd never would have thought we'd get this kind of stuff even in my children's lifetime. Amazing, thanks for putting this together.
9:58 The grid finn action was amazing.
The achievements are a nice little touch that makes me smile.
As far as the audio and video improvements go- I’m sure there is a lot to be gained by having improved media collection during launch flight and landing.
Very cool
I’m expecting this video to inspire attempts at realism in Sci Fi movies.
9:44 If Alejandro Iñárritu ever directs a space movie.
I'll let you finish but first more favorites are 7:23 clouds and fog rolling down the sides, the separation at 5:53 & 4:14 and and legs at 10:23 , exhaust at 11:08
That stage separation - and immediately subsequent audiably sonic blast - is one of the most amazing things I have ever freaking seen
A tiny detail on the Electron rocket stage separation video - If you go frame by frame (use the ',' and '.' keys on youtube), just as the stage separation mechanism engages, you can see the entire first stage flex from the force.
Just amazing, each and every launch provider's footage.. but Elecxtron and SpaceX take the cake. The landing of SpaceX is just so so surreal.
Love that you can see the camera in the reflection on the rocket nozzle.
Maybe the Kodak PixPro?
This was awesome! I love watching SpaceX reentry and landing. Thank-you!
Eye candy!! Ty and happy thanksgiving weekend!
7:00 minutes wow! And I missed it.... Well thank you Scott! Normally I catch vids of this direct on my tv recorded and stuff or live on my phone or something like that but I missed this and I'm so glad you showed it because I never would have seen it and that was easily one of the coolest booster separations I've seen.
_"I couldn't even be down there because of, you know, family commitments up here. And it turned out that was totally the wrong call because the visibility was stunning."_ 🤣
No Dear, I can't go to Walmart just look at the weather !
That launch in 4k there at the end was stunning. Thank you, Scott.
The Launch confirmed Half Life 3
Read Noam Chomsky!!!
You beat me to this comment. I'll go delete mine since it's the same thing.
damn, the F9 tracking video of the ascend and reentry is gorgeous. Kudos to the Space Force.
I saw the comment saying "Scott Manley will make a video about it" under the Electron staging vid and I knew it was gonna be true :D
Another fantastic video from you. Thanks a lot for your commitment to your passion!
im waiting for the go pro ads to come out saying "guess which camera was on THAT rocket"
You can see the reflection of the camera in the foil!
If really GoPro’s, here’s hoping RocketLab gets a lifetime supply of free cameras in return to use on all launches and provide us more cool videos! :)
That stage separation was the coolest thing I've ever seen.
1:12 The music by Jonathan Coulton is in Portal. The Rocket launch in HL2 Ep2 does not have music.
Well done Scott. You have taught us so much over the years!!
3:25 So it is true that if you hold a rocket to your ear you can hear the ocean.
very briefly XD
@@porterejohn Then it's replaced by shouts of the security team.
Yes, I enjoyed that "visual treat". Thank you Scott.
"I couldnt be down there cos of family commitments up here.. it turned out that was totally the wrong call" 😂😂😂 your a brave man scott
you're*
Cool rocket>Family
Yeah, don't let the wife and kids see this Scott!
Could have watched by telescope, he has the equipment at home, might need custom telescope tracking software fed with the launch profile converted to a 3D path.
Whhoaaa! Stage separation *with* audio 😲 awesome 👍I love the way you can see the engine firing just off centre and spiraling slightly as it corrects itself while moving away.. Great footage and really enjoyed this video. Great stuff 👍
“Return to sender” is also a Minecraft achievement.
Hell that second stage staging and engine ignition was epic!
Never thought I would get gnomed by a rocket video
Ok round earther
Gnoblined
So happy each time you load a new video !
Greeting from France
We need more flame trench!
More cowbell!
Rocketlab are REALLY making impressive strides! As an Aussie I'm super-jealous of their space program, that separation footage was fantastic.
And I remember when it was a big deal we got to see some grainy slow-frame-rate footage of John Glenn in a Mercury capsule. (Think it was him, or some other Mercury flight.)
can you tell us more about your stories from Apollo 11,13, STS-1,51L,107 etc? would love to hear them
@@ashokiimc I watched the entire Apollo mission on a small black & white TV, my Dad preferred a sharper picture, and most affordable color TVs weren't as sharp, especially out where we didn't get a strong signal. I was almost 14. Watching the landing, hearing Armstrong's (Aldrin's?) call-outs, was an tense/optimistic/exhilarating experience. Watching him come down the ladder and step onto the Moon is indescribable - thrilling and surreal. I was a big sci-fi fan from an early age, and it was crazy to see reality. Had followed everything in print on the Gemini program. My Dad was thrilled too. He'd seen jet planes become a reality when about 18, and had worked for a few years as an engineering draftsman at Grumman in the early 1950s on some Navy jets, so he had an interest in seeing their Lunar Module succeed. My uncle actually worked on the LM, was an engineer at Grumman. It was also a singular experience to see Walter Cronkite so emotional once Armstrong was on the Moon - men in his position didn't show emotions like that.
Apollo 13 was strange. Extremely worried and also optimistic. I felt the U.S. space program was too good to have a loss of crew failure. STS 1 was such a thrill, a triumphal return to space by the U.S. on a space craft so far in advance of anyone else. And another fulfillment of the sci-fi vision. I had been reading and watching everything I could when it was being developed. Ditto for the ISS being built, and shots of the astronauts floating and zooming around inside in zero-g never get old.
Speaking of sci-fi fulfillment: Watching SpaceX land a booster was something I expected to see ever since I was a kid watching old space sci-fi from the 50s. And it finally happened! Can't wait to see what Starship does.
@@donjones4719 Thanks for sharing! As a new space enthusiast i was in tears watching the falcon heavy launch i can't imagine what it must have been like back then! And to think the best is yet to come
@@donjones4719 thanks don for sharing such wonderful memories with us. It's events like these that make me wish that I was born in the 40s.
@@donjones4719 do you remember when NASA was launching almost 10 shuttles every year around 1985. Was KSC looking like a spaceport out of sci-fi?
That was fantastic to watch, thanks Scott!
Thank you Scott .. my wife totally loves it when I play your videos, apparently you have the sexiest voice .. makes Sunday morning in NZ so much more interesting ;)
WAP - Scott Manley remix
3:45 that’s incredible! So the initial separation is done by springs! Those rods around the perimeter are all pretensioned and have enough combined strength to lob the 2nd stage well and clear from the booster... everyday is a classroom day!!!
3:45 So, actually, if a microphone is in the path of a rocket exhaust, it will "hear" the rocket fly by in the vacuum of space. ^_^
I suppose that as the hot gas from the exhaust hits the microphone it is no longer in a vacuum (for a few seconds at least)
@@zebo-the-fat Like being briefly sprayed with water while existing in a gas atmosphere
Wow! That is some superb imagery. As always, thanks for sharing
Steve
That Electron stage separation video (with audio) is awesome. Never thought I'd be saying SpaceX needed to up their broadcast game.
Rocketlabs: 1
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Hey Scott! I was lucky enough to attend the Sentinel 6 Launch and took some footage myself, but I haven't been 100% sure about the clouds that formed around the booster going up and down. In my video that I tried to publish as fast as humanly possible (small channel probs) I added a label stating that these clouds were some sort of persistent mach cone - one that didn't vanish immediately due to the humidity in the air, but I had a couple comments that claimed, as you did in this video, that the clouds were from a thin layer of humid air that happened to correspond with approximately mach 1.
In your remix tracking video, the cylindrical cloud formed on the way up occurs at 1:14 in the video, at an altitude of 11.1 km and a speed of 1310 km/h. The cloud on the way down appears at 6:02, an altitude of 9.4 km, and a speed of 1392 km/h. Both clouds seem to happen at different elevations, and both at speeds just over the sea-level speed of sound (well over the 10km speed of sound). When I went to go time my footage against real numbers, I was frustrated by the lack of official telemetry, and I'm wondering how accurate you believe this tracking data to be. It seems to me that these are either a layer effect, so they should both occur at the same altitude, or a mach effect, where they should both occur at exactly mach 1, but nothing quite lines up.
You have much better footage of the multi-puff decent cloud than I do, and it really doesn't look like a classic mach cone to me, but I guess the underside of a falcon 9 isn't as nice and pointy as the tip of a plane, so maybe it does something slightly weird? Not wanting to be wrong on the internet, I've been looking for more information for the last week...
Anyways, sorry to comment with a book. I enjoyed your rundown as usual, and was curious what you thought of the telemetry and these weird clouds. Thanks!
My favorite part of that F9 launch was Jessie finally getting to hear the sonic booms in person. She cried lol
6:00 Looks like some wires melted or something in the top right of the image when the rocket engine lit.
True, might’ve been some tape or those plastic things that are used to hold the cables, which I forgot the name now haha. I don’t think the cables themselves melted
Definitely zip ties.
Rocket exhaust does have an uncanny ability to melt things.
Thanks, Scott that made my Sunday morning!
Personally I wish the number of good youtube pages that show these launches would stop talking just prior to launch and let us enjoy the launch, even if there isnt any actual sound from the launch itself, NSF is worst for doing this and one commentator in particular often gets a little too excited
Let me guess, 'das'??
Thanks for that visual treat. Much appreciated Scott!
3:47 that was a lot of soot very fast
Great video, never get tired of those booster landings. Just amazing to see the land, it brings back memories as a child watching sci fi movies seeing them land vertically
8:05 "I can see my house from here!"
SG-1 reference, episode "Fail safe"... "Carter?...I can see my house!" lol
Amazing footage, thank you! One of the most impressive I've ever seen of this kind!
3:45 The closest you will get from be in an hyperspace
Also the footage from the SpaceX Fairings
This was an incredibly awesome use of 11 minutes. Thank you.
4:12 what's happening to the aluminum plates? You can see them flexing. Like they get pressurized or something.
I think that is a foil. What you see is the first stage shutting down and going from a couple of G's to 0G.
At the altitude the rocket is at, there's probably a seal being broken which evacuates the inside of the stage separation area before stage separation occurs. Just uninformed speculation though, I have no idea if that's right it just makes sense to me.
I also saw that during the live stream and I think that compartment (interstage) was pressurized (1 atm at liftoff?), so they let the trapped air out from the interstage in an controlled manner prior to stage separation. That in turn makes that metal relax (not having the 1 atm of air pressing against it anymore), a very interesting camera shot indeed.
@@Xelnah I think you're right sounds like a good explanation. Mabey they want to prevent uncontrolled forces on the second stage because of the air trapped in the interstage
@@rensbakker7710 makes me wonder if it could even be pressurised to high pressure, making it more rigid like the pressurised fuel-tanks. _Could_ save weight in the interstage to do that.
Thanks Scott,
I really loved this compilation of extremely cool additional footage and the interesting commentary & explanations of exactly what we are seeing. 😊😎
Hope you will do many more like these in the future. 👍👍
✌️🚀🖖
PS - LOVE that Gnome Chomsky! May he circle the Earth forever watching over all of us. 🌎
The amount of treble killing anybody else's ears?
Try living with tinnitus.
It is definitely giving the tweeters on my ipad a good workout. It would be absolutely brutal on headphones. Too bad RUclips doesn’t have an auto de-essing algorithm.
Viewing on a cheap smartphone helps. 👍
@Andrew Ongais huh? It was a video with less than perfect EQ. I love Scott Manley videos, but his mic has been messed up lately. I hope he sees this because his content is phenomenal and I'd hate for something as simple as audio mixing to take away from them.
And the rocket clips didn't have ear piercing treble, kid. 😉
SpaceX is really starting to make launches and landings look as easy as a plane flight
Read Noam Chomsky, you got given the hint, READ
Anything Noam says or writes is worth paying attention to but whenever I see his name I hear Ali G saying, "I'm here with my main man, none other than Norman Chompsky." 😆
Holy hell those clips are so freaking amazing, thanks for sharing. I got such a buzz from that rocket lab stage separation in particular, the sound of it all, despite being in vacuum, such a thrill!