Inside SpaceX's Mission to Send Humans into Deep Space | Foreign Correspondent
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2021
- In the era of New Space, billionaire Elon Musk is blazing the trail. He’s building a gigantic starship to fly humans further than ever before.
In the tiny Texan hamlet of Boca Chica, a huge rocket is being built and tested. It’s Elon Musk’s Starship, a 120-metre-high spacecraft whose mission is to transport humans to the moon and beyond, to Mars.
Musk and his company SpaceX are at the forefront of what’s being called ‘New Space’, the rush to commercialise the space sector.
His ambition is extraordinary; he wants to colonise the Red Planet.
“It’s helpful to have the objective of a self-sustaining city on Mars. This has to be the objective”, says Musk.
In his quest to perfect the Starship, Musk has been blowing up prototypes.
“He doesn't really care if it's messy, he doesn’t really care if it appears to be chaotic, he's trying to go forward into the future as fast as possible”, says space writer Eric Berger.
But the mighty rocket has its critics, including a former head of NASA, Charlie Bolden.
“The difficulty for me as a huge fan of SpaceX, but a huge sceptic about Starship is the fact that it's so big, it's so massive”, says Bolden. “If Neil Armstrong were alive today to talk to them, he would probably say, "That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.”
US correspondent Sarah Ferguson heads to Texas to see Musk’s space base up close. She joins a band of devotees in Boca Chica, from Gene the local surfer to MaryLiz and Ryan who are dedicating their lives to documenting the billionaire’s space odyssey.
She speaks to members of the ‘space establishment’ - former and current NASA executives who’ve decided to accept and work with the great disruptor. NASA recently awarded Musk a multi-billion-dollar contract to build its next moon lander.
“I think actually this will be a perfect example of ‘New Space’ and ‘Old Space’ meeting together in a great new mission”, says Kathy Lueders, head of the NASA mission to send humans back to the moon.
Sarah travels to Florida’s space coast to witness the launch of SpaceX’s Inspiration4, the first time civilians have flown into orbit.
Musk is a polarising figure, but he’s changed forever how humans view space.
About Foreign Correspondent:
Foreign Correspondent is the prime-time international public affairs program on Australia's national broadcaster, ABC-TV. We produce half-hour duration in-depth reports for broadcast across the ABC's television channels and digital platforms. Since 1992, our teams have journeyed to more than 170 countries to report on war, natural calamity and social and political upheaval - through the eyes of the people at the heart of it all.
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Big thanks to Cosmic Perspective, SPadre and Everyday Astronaut for being generous with their time and footage, it helped us immensely in making this show.
This was the last episode of Foreign Correspondent for this year, we are taking a short break before we begin working on the next season over summer. We'll be back in February next year.
Thank you for watching ! 🚀🚀🚀
Fantastic work ABC!
Well done ABC :)
Following Starships progress via these RUclipsrs has been a lovely escape during the lockdowns of the past 2 years.
Outstanding documentary!
Bringing to light the community that has formed around Starbase and online is as much part of the story as Starship itself.
The only criticism I have is not showing SN15's successful landing, they all haven't blown up, and not mentioning Inspiration4's secondary mission, fund raising for St. Jude's Children's Hospital which has exceeded it's $200 Million goal.
starship is quite the epic - on how we came to master a solar system
Spacex has a few problems like :
- 01 - outdated and close minded institution named FAA
- 02 - the ultimate imbecile on planet earth jeff kakamaka bezos
None of the two are contributing with anything and they only have as only purpose to shit on everything they can just because they can just as people hurt other people just because they can .
A mainstream news outlet did proper reporting on a space exploration topic, and even credited people in the space community. This is a historic day.
Turns out, it was Australia. NOT THE US MEDIA. They are still sold out.
One small step
@@commanderbracey7501 Sadly very telling.
@@commanderbracey7501 lol
The ABC is just about all Australia has left that hasn't sold its soul to unethical reporting for the sake of ratings. Both Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners are worth watching for that alone.
"If we lost One starship, let alone 6 or however many its been"
As an Ex Nasa Administrator, he sure did not want to mention the loss of two shuttles, and 13 (7 and 6 respectively) astronauts.
Elon is blowing them up to see how it will fail, without lives being lost.
Yep and they only crashed 4 starships in flight tests not 6 unless you count ground tank pressure tests. And as tests a failure still helps them discover problems and iterate the design.
@@stephenhumble7627 does the SN4 RUD count?
@@abhinavprashant2213 Was that a ground test or a flight test - if a flight test than yes 5 destructive flight tests. Though i think that one would count as a failure to launch VS the other 4 were failure to survive landing.
aye he seemed to forget the SS program was shut down because of those losses. I'm still angry about the lives lost even today because they were completely avoidable.
He also complained about giving SpaceX all the money which simply isn't the case, the grant for Starship HLS development is roughly equivalent to the cost of 1 of NASAs throw away SLS rockets... Also the SN4 RUD wasn't a Starship issue it was a problem on the fueling lines so does it count?
A smart move deciding that Space-Nerd Sarah Ferguson should be the one to make this programme.
This professional, yet emotional documentary has just begun to fill the gigantic void in public knowledge about what's going on. And it's so enthralling to be able to follow every step along this monumental journey with such open access to the work at Boca Chica. Go Starship!
I can't believe the ABC actually made something I enjoyed - well done!
To make it clear this is the Australian broadcast company, not the USA ABC
@@Steph.98114 well that explains it. 🤣
Well done!! Thanks ABC for sharing the Starship dream with the world, and sorry about the bumpy boat ride, next time I'll bring the seasick pills lol. Really enjoyed hanging out with yall, hope to sea ya at orbital!
Wholesome level: 100%
You said it right buddy, starship DREAM, but you got to wake up at some point though, dreams are not real. Priceless statement you made!
I wish they had done better job at credits..
I don't know why but that ending is very emotional to me. Just something about all that joy and hope is very heart warming.
It's called video editing, basick narrative spinning of "artistic" expression designed to make the weak feel just that way.
@@linyenchin6773 fair enough bro
@@linyenchin6773 Who is this genius that walks among us, wise in the ways of basic editing techniques that trick us weak fools into feeling emotions! Their name is Lin Yen Chen, a god amongst mortals! I shall take your wise counsel Chen, and from this day forth not shed a tear or let a smile crack my visage for I shall also be too clever to let these video editing devils deceive me!
@@linyenchin6773 nahh.. i don't think that is 'cause even during the livestream it was emotional to most people around the world watching that live both on youtube and in person
@@linyenchin6773 Most of us know how to spell "basic" however.
Wow, this is one of the best documentaries I've seen from a normal media organization on the current space industry. Nicely done!
Welcome to why Australia has a national state funded network
@@MrOutofcontrolvideos the US has their own, called VOA
This is a gift to Humanity. Child of Saturn 5 lives! Rapid technological advancement without a war driving it. The 50 year wait is finally over in my life time. I feel so lucky to be able to see it! Thank you Elon and all SpaceX workers!
Wow, this is a quality documentary here.
Thank You for coming here to tell the story of what's taking place, for putting such a beautiful piece together, and for spending time with us. We so enjoyed connecting and are grateful for the way this turned out. On an additional and personal level, thank you for allowing us to speak through our art and music. Having an opportunity to pause with you on Cocoa Beach to contemplate the Inspiration4 launch was very meaningful to me. Ad Astra! -MaryLiz
Is this your music featured at the end? It was very good I would love to listen!
Can’t wait for the orbital launch, you always have amazing coverage.
And thanks for giving them very accurate and insightful information and that they actually listened, unlike some news channels
**cough** 60 minutes Australia **cough**
@@HarrisonAdAstra Thanks! We can not wait for orbital flight... I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it. Coverage prep is in process!
That was amazing, but Tim needs to understand the Edison Tesla story before comparing people!
Love that Mary Liz is talking in Km and not Miles!
Thanks ABC for putting this on RUclips, This is already doing the rounds of the SpaceX groups on Social media.
I feel bad when people think Elon Musk is just an entrepreneur. He is an engineer and a developer among so many other things.
@@user-rc8zt8wf6w did you not watch the documentary? Dude has changed the rocket and car industry
He's the single most important human on the planet right now... if humanity stays on earth we go extinct.
Elon is a grifter and knows nothing about engineering and science. Never delivers on what he proclaims.
Definitely not an engineer he doesn't understand well understood engineering and scientific principles.
That is probably the best coverage of what's happening in SpaceX, by a large network, that I have yet seen. 10/10 would recommend.
Probably because she actually went there to see it with her own eyes.
The Inspiration 4 documentary on Netflix is also a great watch.
When I saw it was from "ABC" I almost didn't watch it, thinking it would just be another hit piece on Musk. Very well done! I watched it twice.
Pls support I upload videos about space
The ABC (the Aussie BBC) usually produces high quality content especially Foreign Corespondent
Thanks aunty for covering something that interests a lot of Aussies. We are always well represented on live streams and online discussions but the local media doesn't tend to cover tech with any depth or integrity and the broader non-techie audience misses out. Good selection of commentators and visuals.
Thanks Paul, we appreciate it a lot.
I think you Aussies have more pressing things to consider with authoritarians taking over your country while building concentration camps.
@@Andrew-kz5ew ha ha, if we can handle venomous spiders, snakes, jellyfish, octopus and caterpillars, a few weeks on the couch watching Netflix and drinking beer comes pretty easy.
@@Andrew-kz5ew you don't know what you are talking about. Everything in my state is open. There will be elections at state and federal levels for me next year. Don't think they have them in authoritarian countries. Don't believe propaganda. No country is perfect but the number that have more freedom and quality of life than this one is a very short list.
Well done ABC, as an Aussie and massive fan of Cosmic Perspective, SPadre and Everyday Astronaut its so awesome to see our national broadcaster feature them in a doco. They are truly documenting history.
As a fully committed space junkie, this is the best coverage I have seen and you certainly did your homework. This is the future that can bring everyone together.
If anyone wants more information there are multiple RUclips channels that livestream 24\7 and provide coverage of nearly every space launch around the world, with total positivity and inclusion.
Best Foreign Correspondent episode ever 🥺❤️
If people watch the full interview with everyday astronaut, they will understand why Elon is in such a hurry....
Hint: it has zero to do with Ego, and everything to do with our very survival. Go Elon. He's the embodiment of determination in the face of adversity. Never give up. The human spirit to survive and thrive. You'll know which moment they edited out of Tim's interview and why. If you pay attention you'll see why so many people believe in Elon and will work their butt off for him..
Our survival against what? The list of realistic threats against humanity which wouldn’t also be cheaper / easier to fix than colonizing and terraforming mars (asteroid on collision course), still leave earth more habitable than mars(climate change or pretty much any other “existential” threat), or also affect mars (mars would most likely be effected by a nuclear war or AI invasion or something like that) is pretty much nothing. Even the big existential threat to earth, the sun exploding, would also wipe out life on mars (and also won’t happen for billions of years lol). I’m all for human expansion into space, heck I’m studying aerospace engineering rn in university, but I think it’s a bit of a leap to call colonizing mars important to our very survival saw a species lol. Colonization likely won’t result in any significant increase in our odds of survival until we’re visiting exoplanets, and by then I doubt we’ll even need planets anymore.
Great program Sarah. As a long time SpaceX watcher I think you really showed the whole story very comprehensively, and really captured the power and the passion of the new race to space.
I'll make sure to pass on your kind thoughts to Sarah and the team, thanks for watching!
That sounds nice... Too bad your being lied to an brainwashed!!!... These people with all this money ban together to prove God doesn't exist!!!!.... A HUMAN BEING CANNOT GO PAST THE ORION RADIATION BELT THAT SURROUNDS EARTH!!!.... NASA HAS BEEN LYING FOR 60 YEARS!!!!... GO WATCH THE FOOTAGE OF THE ASTRONAUTS WHEN THEY CAME BACK!!!... THEY GOT THEIR LIES CROSSED UP...AND WERE TELLING TWO DIFFERENT STORIES OF WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED ... THE PROPAGANDA IS SO MASSIVE!!!... THEY MONEY AND TECHNOLOGY COMES FROM DEMONIC FORCES!!!!... SO MANY PEOPLE DONT Actually know who...and what makes this world turn the way it does!!!... ITS ALL LIES TO DECIEVE YOU.... BELIEVE SATAN....NOT THE MOST HIGH GOD THAT HE WANTS TO BE LIKE!!!!... Trust... NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN A PICTURE OF EARTH FROM DEEP SPACE!!!!.... BECAUSE THEY CANT!!!!
What? Charles Bolden saying what Neil Armstrong would have said? Oh, PU-LEEZE! This from the guy who presided over the decade-long WITHDRAW OF THE USA FROM MANNED SPACE LAUNCH? The DUMBEST thing I ever heard was: "[my] “foremost” mission as the head of NASA is to improve relations with what he termed “dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science."'--Daniel Bolden. How DARE this unaccomplished FAILURE of a pathetic bureaucrat pi$$ on the shoulders he stands on. But that was true of ALL of Obama's appointees...especially himself! Godspeed SpaceX, NASA an anyone with BIG DREAMS for space exploration. And shut up, Bolden.
She's a misandrist too. You dont know that!?
This was incredibly put together and showed off how many hours of research you poured into it. I love the fact that you referred to the vehicles by their actual numbers and having such important figures of the space community turn up.
Keep it up Auntie!!!
That is just another graphic example of Musks genius, He's not worrying about building multi-billion dollar air conditioned facilities somewhere near 5 Star Hotels, instead doing it like a construction site in a place that doesn't rain much to disrupt construction. Awesome dude
More mainstream news and current affairs programs should be doing what Sarah Ferguson and the ABC have done here to bring the wonder, inspiration, and joy of the new Space Age to the general public. I think they don't realize how important this all is to the average person. It is Humanity's rite of passage into a new world. Excitement will snowball as the future of technology insinuates itself into the daily lives of us all. I can't wait!
Going to space is a good idea, but not for the average person. No average person alive today will benefit from any of this. Excitement, wonder, inspiration, joy? I think you mean irrelevant propaganda fluff.
@@S2Tubes im an average person that will not have the chance to go on space or benefit from it..but as human i feel excitement,wonder and ispiration for the sake of all humanity
totally agree with you..wild space is our future!
@@S2Tubes I can't have "meant irrelevant propaganda fluff" as I was referring to my personal feelings of 'excitement, wonder, inspiration, and joy'. That you don't share in this wonderful feeling does not detract from its reality in me and in many others.
@@Nullius_in_verba That's really exactly what I meant. We're doing it. We're finally doing it! Wow.
Thank you so much for covering Starship, surprisingly few mainstream news organisations cover the development. Also thanks for giving us a good non-biased representation of what the challenges and inspiration behind Starship is.
I can’t believe I’m watching this on ABC. Respect. And thank you so much for finally covering things that matter in an up close and personal way. Interviewing people active in the space community like Tim Dodd and using footage from him and LabPadre was amazing. Great job producing this. Please do more content like this in the future!
Wow. This is an amazing documentary from a non science related mainstream media. Also a big kudos for including interviews and footages from the space community.
Congratulations! This is a good documentary because you've picked the right people to work with, people who really understands what all this means!
Lori Garver and Kathy Lauders, two of the most important people to essentially go against the blue blood space contractors and help start a new era of space flight. Outside of SpaceX and Elon Musk, these two women don't get the credit they deserve. Thank you for telling this incredible story and featuring people who we rely on daily to get updates about the SpaceX and space flight in general.
And Kathy was just demoted. Her job as head of human spaceflight was split in two and lunar program was handed over to someone else. It's likely the result of not selecting Northrup and Lockheed backed Blue Origin in favor of Starship for the moon lander. But those are rumours.
This is by far the best piece on SpaceX and just the whole scene that I have ever seen! By far! Bravo!
What a fantastic documentary! This felt honest and accurate using sources that understand the industry and SpaceX.
They interviewed actual "Rocket Chasers". Tim Dodd (Everyday Astronaut), Boca Chica Gal (Mary) who is affiliated with NasaSpaceFlight, and Spadre who does his own RUclips videos about Spacex (The guy on the boat).
thanks for crediting Cosmic Perspective, EDA and SpadreIsle in your credits! Disclaimer: I am loosely connected to Tim Dodd through his website articles :-)
What a great doco… Best I’ve seen on SpaceX. This honesty about Musk’s ability and his mission would not be possible from our commercial networks, who are more concerned with flinging 💩 💩 💩 at him than honestly respecting his achievements and his genius.
This is probably the best and most up to date documentary ever! Please make this a series with episodes releasing annually
Very well done! I'm a big SpaceX, Starship, Elon fan.. this made me emotional for sure.
Top Notch! The Presenter was excellent, and you captured some great interviews as well.
Well done Australian Public Broadcast Service. Well done. Definitely some exciting things coming out of SpaceX Thank you for covering this.
Oh my. I've just realised that literally no one except space nerds know what is going on with SpaceX. But when the time comes when they send humans to Mars all the non space nerds will say "sTaY oN eArTh"
Sadly, yup. Probably same thing that happened with the first European emigrants to the Western Continent
The European spirit of exploration is kinda stagnant ngl, but even it doesn't get revived ppl will have to understand how dangerous it is to only live on one planet
We will not reach mars
Thanks Aunty for covering some space news. I look forward to more space news and unique perspectives. Please show us what our own space industry is doing. Have a gander at our dear cousin’s in New Zealand, RocketLab are getting very good at building and flying their rockets.
Awesome report, captures well the emotional adventure we are all on.
Eric was spot on with the music analogy
I'm surprised by the accuracy and positivity of this video. Really enjoyed it!
You shouldn't be surprised.. no one is actually credible
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for producing this!
Great documentary! Good onya ABC, this is the kind of content you should be proud of.
You guys had me in tears for the whole duration of the episode. There is a really large community of people all around the world routing for SpaceX and Elon. And seeing how dedicated you were in your coverage, naming all the hardware they put out by names, Touched me to my chore. Thank you for your beautiful work. Thank you so much.
A very good summation of SpaceX and Musk's motivation for having SpaceX. But what was extremely good was the people that were interviewed here. One of the first documentaries that talked to people (content creators) around SpaceX human spaceflight that the rest of us geeks are watching and listening to. Great program.
Does anyone actually fact check?? This guy is a flake who has the money to hire people smarter than him in various fields and fulfill the mars trip
Awesome short documentary, I'd like to see you talking about the activities of people and their emotions, feelings, obssessions and what they thinking of every minute while they are in the space riding starship in their way to mars theoretically and what they start to do when landing....
That would be a very long documentary....
Great piece, capturing the excitement SpaceX is generating. Thanks for all your great work this year. Look forward to Foreign Correspondent next year. 😁🙃😎👍
Well done ABC. Well done! That was AMAZING! This is the beginning of a new age in space travel.
Faith and Determination of one man's vision.
lol there is a random nimrod riding around on a hoverboard and chiming bells
And they get a spot in this piece...
That's the beauty of what SpaceX is doing out in the open in Boca Chica TX. You don't need to be a NASA government personnel with security clearance-- Anyone off the street can just walk right up next to the gate of the Boca Chica launch facility on Texas Highway 4 and watch the SpaceX engineers put together the giant rockets right there that might someday launch the first humans to Mars, in plain sight.
Thank you for covering aerospace...
Thank you for talking about iterative rocket development - blowing up prototypes is a good thing! :D
This is a fantastic documentary. I appreciate all the interviews showing the impact SpaceX is having, and the profile of Musk. As a lifelong Texan, just one tiny little complaint: we usually refer to that area as "south Texas" or "the Valley". (That's the Rio Grande Valley, to be specific.) "Southeast Texas" would ordinarily refer to the upper Texas Gulf Coast.
ha, I just commented the same thing. unless elon has something going on in lufkin that im u aware of.
The program was made for international broadcast, in Australia. If somebody 14,000 km away doesn't know where Boca Chica is, then South East Texas gives them a good idea. Saying "Rio Grande Valley" will just pull a blank for most people.
Yeah, Texas is not a square. There is no southeast or southwest.
@@Levitiy Hilarious. I put it to you that Boca Chica is in the southern most part of Texas. In that southern part, it's to the East.
How do you plead?
This was a great watch, glad to see this topic covered.
Awesome documentary - felt truly inspired - thanks !
Thanks FC for presenting a well balanced portrayal of SpaceX.
Pretty rare for mainstream media documentaries these days (which often *only* interview people like some groups that didn't want SpaceX at Starbase, etc. without input/clarification from SpaceX communities/people who's following SpaceX closely)
Wow what a fantastic video to watch really nailed it
Not gonna lie, for mainstream media, this is extraordinarily good.
Insightful documentary featuring interesting people. But Gene holding his camera without straps in a boat over the water gave me anxiety.
The whole planet should see this
Finally! someone in mainstream media covering this awesome piece of technology
Thanks Sara Ferguson & ABC. It's good to see MSM communicate to Australia at large what a fascinating time we live in, that's happening with no small effort.
It's a shame you didn't mention the $200 million raised by the Inspiration 4 flight for St. Jude's children's hospital.
Making humanity multi-planetary and resolving problems on Earth are complimentary and not in competition.
Great program!
However, it is beyond belief that they finished with the Inspiration4 launch but yet failed to show the booster land itself, because that is the coolest part, when the booster comes back home. I defy you to watch a booster land itself without devolving into a blubbering wreck.
You edit the video next time.
@@randomasdfx7891 That was an extremely dumb comment...
Awesome Documentary! Love it! I have followed SpaceX since they attempted their first Falcon9 Booster landings. I have followed Tim from the Beginning in his old russian space suit. Great compilation of what has been going on regarding space flight during the last few years! Keep it going! The mainstream media is still not getting it, what is happening here! The future is now!
A big thank you to the Foreign Correspondent team, for making a truly positive and informative piece on Starship...
This by far is one of my favorite documentaries on SpaceX and the Starship program. It's one of the best documentaries that no one's talked about and it should have well over 1,000,000 views by now I find it incredible that it doesn't it's looking at the Starship program from a different perspective and I really really love it!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS. So much media misses the hope and human spirit behind our reaching for the stars.
Sarah , beautiful coverage
4:22
I absolutely love them , love their energy.
Thanks Sarah Ferguson for such a well-researched report that covered a lot of history, issues, plans and human reactions so well in a short time, including interviews with some of the best people in the field.The ending was beautiful.
She is credible??
Such an amazing documentary of humanity's most unifying effort. Well done and inclusive of the major player (Musk) and the awesome supporting cast (Cosmic Perspective, Everyday Astronaut, Inspiration4 and all the space nerds, like me)
Charlie Bolden being so skeptical of Starship success even stating that Neil Armstrong was alive he would think it was an awful idea. Back in the 1960’s you didn’t have to search hard to find smart people who were also skeptics that thought the Apollo program and the chances of Neil Armstrong being successful in the quest to land on the moon either. I feel certain that Elon Musk will continue to prove skeptics wrong just as he keeps proving those who keep shorting Tesla stock are also wrong. I am both disappointed and amazed at how many people seem to be hoping to see Elon fail. For myself I will continue to be one of his biggest cheerleaders wishing Elon and his team at SpaceX , Tesla…. The very best!
You’ll find me continue to be cheering him on!
Very well done. Thanks ABC.
I have the upmost respect for everyone involved in creating this video. The first news outlet to show what’s going on with some passion, conviction and truth. Congrats 👏
What Musk is doing is not beating the establishment. He is developing on the foundations of the establishment and the torch is slowly being passed to the private sector just like all the other technologies the government has fostered and developed. The establishment isn’t old and bad the establishment built the framework to allow the privatization of space exploration.
Governments contacts helped.
As did the existing knowledge base.
But SpaceX designed and built those engines from scratch. They surely deserve a lot of credit for pioneering reusable rocketry at a scale which wasn't previously considered possible.
That is certainly true, but many of the old boys see SpaceX as a threat, it's the same old story - the older generation holding back the younger one.
The establishment is still using 40 years old tech with barely any changes. SpaceX is building on top of that old tech to build true 21st rockets.
(15:45) The argument of losing starships is absurd. Starships cost nothing to produce in comparison to the shuttle or whatever...so you could never do it, just not the reason you think...
Also their failures don't have people on them, unlike the two shuttles.
This is next level!! I am glad to be able to see this new era of human spaceflight.
Elon musk is the most influential human of our generation
This deserves more views
SpaceX has for sure blown up more rockets than any other but have also made the greatest advancements in space travel in the current century. Failure is the greatest teacher.
Sir APJ Abdul Kalam once said :- Those who dare to imagine the impossible are the one who break all human limitations. And Elon Musk is a great example that fits the statement.
Wow this is amazing, this is really well done.
This is the most well documented. ❤️🔥 I cried at the end.
14:07 man I have been dealing with this type of criticism and nothing can be done to make them see the real side.
They keep sharing the fake medias and twisted news and post elon musk and his weird nerd when valid criticism as a meme to silence.(which they think like they r not wrong). Mis information by some big medias has been doing a lot of damage on people's perspective and a way to see things (know what's is real whats not). Thanks for showing the real content and helping many to get inspired by.. ❤️
23:53 “if Neil Armstrong were alive today to talk to them he would probably say ‘that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.’”
How about asking Buzz Aldrin? He was right there with Neil on the surface of the Moon in 1969, and he’s still alive today.
Buzz hated spacex.
They are all military guys who like secrets and government control.
@@williamh.gatesiii8183 Given that Starship is the most advanced rocket and Raptor is the most powerful rocket engine, it does concern me to see such lack of more security with their work. Having cameras pointed at BocaChica 24/7 and people taking thousands of photos daily must be a dream come true for China and Russia. No need to send spies nor do satellite flyovers, or anything. Americans are doing all their spy work for them a million times better than they could ever dream of, and for free. It feels to me like a massive national security risk.
Great work ABC, one of the first mainstream broadcasters to properly cover what is happening in Boca Chica!
And now, Tim Dodd has been selected to be part of the DearMoon mission, making a lunar flyby on one of these Starships
Incredible
It happening. Keep the bureaucrats and politicians as far away as possible and everything will be fine. Go Elon. God speed all of us. Cheers, D.
finally see some news coverage on starship!
Very high quality documentary. It's so nice to see some reporting on SpaceX that captures a little bit of the hope and awe in what they're doing.
If you ever want to talk to a well-informed local, Marcus House puts together 1-2 very high quality space videos per week.
Yes! Marcus House is simply awesome!
I heard Expert Marcus House is awesome but how do I contact him?
The skeptics of Elon Musk are just describing and referring to their own limitations. Awesome documentary.
Yea.
It was great. I appreciate the fact that you were able to look at what's going on from all the angles such as the challanges, criticisms, Different POVs of different science people and space enthusiasts and so on, other than just talking about how big Elon Musk and SpaceX is.Then It would have been just an other ordinary entertainment video on RUclips.
Most of all, The emotions that you were able to capture.... Kudos.. ❤️
Just wow! You guys always make a great program! 😮😮
Thanks Jillian, Foreign Correspondent will be taking a short break over our summer, we'll be back next year in February.
This is huge. I am feeling very small right now. But in awe of this project never the less.
15:46 this is completely false. In the 1950s-1960s, there were a tremendous amount of Jupiter, Thor, Atlas and Titan failures along with their second stages, Able, Centaur, Ablestar, Agena, and Altair; which unlike Starship were supposed to be ideal missions with success hopeful for the payload. Saturn V also had a failure in Apollo 6, which costs 20-50x that of a Starship failure in modern currency. Starship is a development vehicle alike to the Atlas A-C, which also had many failures for a stainless steel balloon tank.
That was during height of the space race though if they did that today NASA’s budget would be annihilated lol
The public perception was very, very different at the time. If NASA starts to blow up rockets like that nowdays it will get skinned alive by congress and the general public alike.
@@TheCosmicGuy0111 Not necessarily. Those prototypes SpaceX blew up were barebones and mass produced, and most likely fairly cheap. The issue would be the political cost. Congress definitely wouldn't like to see taxpayer money go up in flames like that.
@@maxklinger1494 The political issue is exactly why NASA shouldn't be building rockets anymore. They are hamstrung with trying to create jobs across states, which doesn't translate to cheap or fast paced innovation, as demonstrated by the SLS rocket.
@@TheCosmicGuy0111 We are in a space race now. China wants to land a man on the Moon by 2030. NASA have already admitted they can't land an American before April 2026, and that's if nothing goes wrong.
If it wasn't for Elon Musk, China would be leading the world in space right now.
This is a great video! Does it make me cry because of how inspiring it is or is it because I've literally been following all these people and spacex and starship from the beginning and now seeing it like this is just almost unbelievable. Absolutely amazing with out a doubt one of the most important things happening in our life time. Godspeed spacex, starship and elon musk
This is actually a VERY good video on SpaceX's revolution. Very well done Mrs. Ferguson!
This was so incredibly well done. I hope to see you bring out new updates every year or two, because everything is about to change.
Hopefully Everyone gets to mars... cause that's what we need a whole
@@SammyPro820 space is too unstable and the turbulence enormous.
Thank you! for including all these amazing RUclipsrs that are working so hard day and night to cover Starship development.
I like how the old NASA administrator said "Congress would have shut us down if we lost ONE Starship". Do someone need to remind him about how many space shuttles were lost?
Yeah quite worrying somebody like that was NASA's administrator.
And how many SLS rockets haven't been launched (and how few are likely to ever launch)
He's got a point tho. Shuttle losses as tragic as they were, happened unintentionally. SpaceX has been pushing their vehicles to their limits and beyond intentionally and pancacked quite a few of them in just a few months. NASA would have to answer to the congress why it did deliberately blow up taxpayer money. SpaceX answers to nobody but Musk.
Pls support I upload videos about space
@@furytron man ur soooo new. U started uploading 20hrs ago. Good luck to u man
Awesome documentary
we saw everyday astronaut , Cosmic Perspective , labpadre , . . . lot more not seen here NASA space Flight, ocean cam, spacex pink, What about it, and so many more dedicating their lives to document this and then the workers and staff at spacex and crews locally haired out to make this great thing happen
15:45 Former Nasa administrator: "If we lost rockets at the rate that SpaceX loses them..."
Well genius. You did. And more. You lost every single rocket you ever launched.
What SpaceX is doing, is launching rockets and NOT losing them every single time.
If SpaceX landed even one single rocket, ever, they would be ahead of NASA. And they have landed a lot more than one.
I respect NASA greatly. But those are the simple facts.