SpaceX's Starship Unleashed the Fury, and New Insights Into Flight Test 3!

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Thanks for the congrats, Marcus! You've always done things the right way from Day 1 and are a super great guy and friend to deal with throughout. Most importantly, it's good reporting in these exciting times, so the amount of new people you'll have attracted to spaceflight via consistently solid content and overviews is good for us all!

It is incredible seeing Starbase grow since the beginning

NASA's budget has hovered around 25 billion for decades now. Some years it goes up, some years it goes down. The really interesting thing is that the Space Force budget has already exceeded the NASA budget (29 billion) and will only increase in the coming years. It's sad to me that the ability to punch someone in the face is more important then exploring the universe, and acquiring knowledge. But this just shows that the home world is still a dangerous place to live, and such things are regretfully necessary. EDIT: It looks like this is allot of money to some folks, but to put that number in perspective.. Americans spend over 750 billion in bars and eating out. Just food for thought.

Marcus you make my Saturday's a little bit better, thank ya ❤

THAN K YOU for all of the updates!!!!! I look forward to your videos every week!!

I loved the comparison of flight profiles between F9 and Starship. They have a lot to learn about SS and how she behaves in the reentry regime.

Thanks Marcus! Awesome update as always! I might be hungry and needing coffee on this early Saturday morning but I can already hear the kids running and screaming downstairs. Just a few more minutes hiding in bed... Dad needs his space news

Scrap SLS and put the astronauts on a Dragon to dock with Starship in earth orbit then starship to the moon? I'm sure this has been raised before.

My wife is on the PS5. I sat down and she said, do you want Marcus on darling? She's a keeper❤

Huge fan of how the space news creators get along so well. That’s the way it should be! Great vid

Mars sample return.. Starship can bring back the rovers too! And put a cybertruck there for later use....

I can’t wait to hear the sonic boom from the starship booster eating the atmosphere. Need a camera in the landing zone. 😮😊

The work pace of this people is off the charts in the aerospace field...

I suspect raptors have thermal equilibrium issues when in a vacuum for a while after the initial burn. The booster relit because only a few seconds had passed since the initial burn. But it was minutes before the final booster burn relight was attempted. During this time, methalox may have evaporated near pump turbines and created a gas bubble that acted like insulation. Which then allowed heat build up from a hot part of the Raptor. After a few minutes the engines are no longer cold enough to safely relight. This is just a suspicion and i wonder if a Raptor was ever tested on a stand then allowed to sit 20 minutes then relit without precooling. How do we know the failed relite in space was due solely to methalox disruption into the pump and not a thermal shock issue?

I think you need to prioritize a whole segment on the first Polaris Dawn mission. They are launching in a couple months. New EVA suit designed by Space X has it's debut in May. This is as groundbreaking as Starship. First space walk by private company (not NASA/Russia/China. Furthest distance from Earth by humans since Apollo. Suit may be used on Moon/Mars. I just wish Space X would do about 20 of these missions instead of a couple, so we can learn to live/work in space while Starship developed.

Thanks for a great show. They are all interesting.

Thanks for the great recap Marcus. Regarding the booster, I wonder why more is not mentioned about the timing of when things seemed to go wrong. If you look at about the T+6:45 mark of the flight, the booster passes through a cloud layer (incredible sight, btw) and immediately becomes unstable. Prior to launch, there was concern about upper level winds. I can't help but think there was some wind shear at that cloud layer which the grid fins and attitude control thrusters were unable to cope with. Especially at the speed the booster was traveling.

I wish I could meet you in real life. You inspire me constantly and you are so happy making this content. How can I not come around? I wish you well in all you do and thank you for helping the little nerds like me get their weekly dose of updates with valuable information we otherwise may not have.

Thanks Marcus! Great work and again, enjoyed spending Saturday morning with you!