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In today’s environmentally conscious world, I’m shocked that Sherwin-Williams’ little logo is still just like “Screw it, just dip the whole damn planet in our chemicals!!!” At this point, good for them. They’re at least transparent with their corporate intentions 😂

We may have just witnessed the peak of the Falcon family of rockets. 3 missions, in less than 13 hours, 4 booster landings and a crew docking to station. Incredible! Falcon is winding down as Starship ramps up. Congrats on a HUGE day. Don't forget, Starship just launched Monday!

These are just SOME of the cables ran between the production trailer and around our studio space in MARS. I’m working on cleaning and fixing MARS to sell it now that we’re streaming from Rocket Ranch Outpost. Can’t believe what it took to run one of our streams 😂

I find it funny that some people got hung up on Starship not having gone orbital before Flight 14 when in the grand scheme of things it was completely arbitrary in terms of performance. The 19ish second burn only added about 91 m/s of velocity (a 1.2% increase in velocity) This capability has been physically capable since Flight 6 which demonstrated a single Raptor relight in space. Heck, Flight 13’s burn was about 14 seconds, but intentionally oriented to primarily do a plane change instead of a prograde insertion burn for continued safety. Any of the relights COULD have done the orbital insertion burn, the duration was not of any special technical capability. The reason Starship didn’t go orbital until Flight 14 is probably what we should applaud them for the most… SAFETY. Their methodical approach to getting good data and going one step at a time while hucking the single most massive object ever put into space proves they weren’t just doing things haphazardly, despite the occasional narrative from the outside. While it’s easy to compare Starship to vehicles like SLS or Vulcan or New Glenn, the reality is the focus hasn’t been on orbit, it’s been all on the “downhill” side of that. Safe and targeted de-orbit, clean reentry, targeted and soft splashdown. That’s the part that has (almost) never been done before. And here I do have to add a little Space Shuttle admiration for figuring out a lot of these things on its first flight in 1981 (although it came a bit close to not being successful). Pretty amazing there was a vehicle of similar scale capable of such precise deorbit and reentry that it landed on a runway with no go-around capabilities. Crazy. But Starship is well on a path to absolutely leap-frog the Space Shuttle in terms of performance (already over double and someday 6 fold) and hopefully in terms of full and rapid reuse. I hope we see the latter part speed up even more now that orbit has been demonstrated. Exciting times ahead!!! Keep going @spacex @elonmusk

New Glenn 9x4 has been added to NASA’s Launch Services Program, making both New Glenn configurations eligible to compete for NASA science and exploration missions. With an 8.7-meter fairing and the ability to carry more than 70 metric tons to LEO, 9x4 gives NASA greater payload capacity and flexibility as we expand the New Glenn fleet 🚀 Two paths to orbit. More flexibility for NASA.

Starship from Cybercab 🚀🤖🚕🤯😂 @Tesla @SpaceX @Erdayastronaut

I should be hardened to seeing rockets launch… yet I just couldn’t help but take my phone out and shoot this because it just felt too unreal! It’s absolutely incredible to be just 4 miles from Starship’s first orbital launch!!! Huge congrats @SpaceX team!!!

So is this telemetry showing ground speed or how is it orbital at 26,370 km/h?

STARSHIP IS GO FOR ORBITAL INSERTION BURN!!!!!

WE'RE LIVE to watch the FIRST ORBITAL STARSHIP!!! LET'S GO!!! piped.video/live/LeKY53pwArw…

Beautiful morning for an ORBITAL STARSHIP LAUNCH!!! I’m going to be live in person from @RocketRanchTX just 4 miles [6 km] away! Liftoff moved 30 minutes back, so liftoff now 7:45 am [12:45 UTC]

Starship’s 14th flight is set to launch on Monday, Sept 28. The 75-minute launch window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT. Live coverage of the mission starts ~35 minutes before launch → x.lingyaoai.com/i/broadcasts/1qxvvenMP…

Getting the tracker set at @RocketRanchTX !! The music is on but @AnthonyFGomez hits the dj table a little later

First orbital launch attempt for Starship ON THE PAD for Flight 14! Launching NET MONDAY, Sept 28th at 7:15 am central [12:15 UTC]. There’s no catch attempt for booster or ship, but it’s still not one to miss! Let’s see this beast finally be put to work! @elonmusk @SpaceX

10 years ago today, @elonmusk announced his Mars plans in the form of the Interplanetary Transportation System, now known as Starship at the 2016 IAC in Guadalajara, Mexico. This was when he used the underpants gnome meme and I’ve always wondered if back then he already knew Starlink would be the key to SpaceX’s future followed by AI prospects, or was it still just rocket launch services that thought would be the money maker. PS: I was there and it was the first time I asked Elon anything at a press conference. I remember being pretty nervous. I never imagined I’d hold multi-hour conversations about rockets just a few years later.

Let's go!!! Can't wait for Monday!

Starbase, here I come! Can’t wait to witness the first orbital launch attempt of Starship! It’s been a long time coming 🥹

Stream is UP for Monday's ORBITAL launch attempt of Starship for Flight 14! I'll be there in person just 4 miles away at Rocket Ranch Outpost and I can't WAIT for this historic mission! We'll go live at 6:00 a.m. Central [11:00 UTC], see you then!!! - piped.video/live/LeKY53pwArw…

This is the ultimate form of @elonmusk's mantra "The best part is no part". Here's a deep dive on the genius reason why @SpaceX deleted one of the grid fins on their V3 Super Heavy Booster!