Professional rocket orientation specialist, explainer of flamey stuff and rocket chaser. Bringing space down to Earth for everyday people 🚀
#dearMoonCrew
I am beyond excited to announce that I was chosen as a crew member for dearMoon! This has already been an amazing adventure and there's lots more to come. I cannot wait to share it with you all! Read more about it here!
#dearMoonCrew
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@elonmusk
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This is not a render. This is not a simulation. This is
@SpaceX
’s first integrated test flight of
#Starship
with the Super Heavy booster, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly. This
#slomo
is from our 8k tracker shot by
@considercosmos
.
HISTORY!!!!!!! On their 19th anniversary of being a company,
@SpaceX
proved their Starship vehicle’s wacky landing maneuver works!!! They NAILED THE LANDING!!! That was incredible!!! Congrats
@elonmusk
and the rest of the team!!!! That was unreal!!!
Honestly, if I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes and didn’t have my own footage of this, I would 100% think it’s CGI 🤯 I think it’s the coolest video in the world! The future is here. Science fiction isn’t even this cool! Can’t wait for
#SN11
@SpaceX
@elonmusk
Harrowing but important words from Elon while standing on top of the orbital launch mount. Part III of my tour of Starbase with
@elonmusk
is dropping Wednesday!
If twitter could handle the full length feature videos that I produce and can offer a similar monetization system like YouTube does, I would consider uploading my full videos here too for sure.
Today I witnessed the most insane thing I’ve ever seen with my eyes. Watching
#SN8
fall from the sky, that slowly, & then seeing the engines relight... yeah... I lost my mind! Incredible work
@SpaceX
and
@elonmusk
. That was even cooler than I could’ve ever imagined 🤯
#SN9
next!
I just went 0-60 MPH in about 2 seconds and 0-100 MPH in about 4 seconds with 4 people in the car 🤯
@Tesla
just broke the laws of physics my friends 😂 I’m sorry but that’s truly alien. Thanks for the fun
@elonmusk
#SN10
reflew a lot quicker than any of us expected 🤯 that was insane!!!! So.... congrats and also RIP 🤷♂️😂 bye bye SN10, congrats on making history!!!!
@spacex
@elonmusk
My happy place. Still just in awe of these things. I can’t wait to watch this program continue to evolve and go operational. It’s exciting, inspiring and gives me hope for the future. Makes me want to do awesome things and cheer on those pushing humanity into the stars!
So my car now has a racing game built into it 😂 best of all, I found out if you leave fart mode on, you can fart every time you boost!!!! 😂😂😂 I love
@Tesla
way too much😂 thanks for the laughs
@elonmusk
Veritical video might be a sin... so consider me a sinner 😈 Is
there such thing as too zoomed in? 😂 here’s a preview of
#Starlink
-3 at 5000mm, 4K - 120 FPS. More to come 👌 beautiful launch today!!!
@SpaceX
@elonmusk
Take a tour of
@SpaceX
's Starbase factory with the ultimate tour guide,
@elonmusk
! It was INCREDIBLE to pick his brain for over 2 hours while walking around checking out Starship hardware! He even made some design decisions IN REAL TIME! Enjoy part 1 of 3!
There’s something genuinely magical about seeing
#Starship
#SN8
in person. Boca Chica is beautiful, quiet and serine. Then on the horizon is this hard to fathom, next generation rocket just hanging out. It’s incredible. Can’t wait to see it fly 🙌
This conversation with
@elonmusk
is a master class in rocket engineering / Raptor 2. A lot of what we talk about is PERFECT for my next video about engine cycles. The video will be out “When It’s Done™” but we’re very close to our final. Then the full Elon interviews will drop!
@elonmusk
TBH, I miss when you’re focusing your energy on getting humans to Mars and advancing the world’s transition to a sustainable future with great products. I’ve learned so much from your tweets about Starship & Raptor and that’s motivated & inspired me (& many others) a lot.
We demand to see this shot in full resolution from launch through fairing separation!!! That was the most epic shot ever!!!! LET'S SEE IT
@elonmusk
!!!!
Who wants to see the coolest thing ever? How about SN15’s entire flip and landing? 😍 check out this vertical video we shot with a
@zcamcc
6K!!! Click and enlarge this one!!! It’s maybe my favorite shot of
#SN15
🙌
@considercosmos
@SpacePadreIsle
@elonmusk
Well. It happened 🤯 that grain silo just flew 🤯 what an insane site to see. Standby for 4K slow mo later tonight 😍 great work
@SpaceX
/
@elonmusk
!!!! Let’s see 3 raptors now 😈
I’ve had a change of heart… the next full video I put out will actually be the much anticipated “Entire History of Soviet Rocket Engines”!!! It’s long, intimidating, needs a TON of graphics and hard to find B-roll.. But it’s going to be amazing!!!
Ok,
@tesla
mobile service is amazing. When I got my car back from the Tesla certified body shop, the driver’s side mirror wasn’t working and there was a super loud whistle from the windshield. Tesla sent a mobile repair guy here, 3 minutes later everything was fixed. Wizards!!!
Well... I'm going to the moon! Literally 😳 I absolutely cannot wait to share this experience with you all. This is an incredible group of people and I'm beyond grateful for this opportunity!
Witness our POV of the world’s largest and most powerful rocket ever, fly with 33 raptor engines (something MANY had doubts about!) HUGE congrats to the teams
@SpaceX
/
@elonmusk
. What a STUNNING launch!!! Wait till you see all of our 4K footage 😍
Hey
@elonmusk
, how cool would it be to do an interview in the wreckage of
#SN10
? 🤔 (once it’s safe) I’m sure people would love to hear what you’ve learned with these prototypes and what’s next for Starship!!!
I did NOT see this coming!!!
@spacex
won the Human Landing System contract to return humans to the moon WITH STARSHIP!!! This is by far the most ambitious option but the most exciting lander with the most potential. This is HUGE!!! 🙌 Congrats
@nasa
and
@spacex
!!! 🥳
Can we all just stop and admire for a second that
@SpaceX
has a Tiki Bar that has MK1’s flaps 😂 I’m sorry, but that’s the coolest thing ever. Fun to imagine that this place could be packed someday with people getting ready to go to Mars 🤯
“At SpaceX we specialize at converting the impossible to late” - maybe my favorite
@ElonMusk
quote to date 😂 In part 2 we take you up the launch tower! Video comes out Thursday!
What it’s like to feel the world’s most powerful rocket,
#Starship
, from only 8km [5 miles] away!!! It shook our studio like crazy! Watch the door 😳 It wasn’t horribly loud, but it was thunderous & earth rattling. It. Was. Amazing! Congrats
@spacex
/
@elonmusk
! Slow mo coming!
Have you ever heard the sound of a rocket falling before it lights its engines? I hadn’t either... JUST WAIT TILL YOU HEAR THE BOOM! 😉 Here’s a teaser of one of one of our videos.
@considercosmos
and I are releasing 4K videos this weekend!!! 😍
#SN8
@spacex
@elonmusk
Remember when this used to be something that shocked us? Now it just casually touches down for the 12th time and it’s absolutely no big deal. Seeing SpaceX continue to push these boosters and make reuse a reality is so normal and routine, it’s almost boring 😂 Yay!
A conversation with
@elonmusk
about Starship! Thanks for getting nerdy with me about aerospikes👌. We should definitely talk about more stuff like those heat shields and stuff next time!
It’s road trips like this 1,400 mile (2250 km) road trip to
@NASAKennedy
for
@NASA
and
@SpaceX
’s
#DM1
mission that makes me SOOOO thankful for
@Tesla
’s incredible autopilot and supercharger network 🙌 thanks for the hard work
@elonmusk
and team!
How it started: How it’s going... almost exactly 2 years ago today I did my first stream @ Boca Chica from my car for a Starhopper test. Today, we might see
#SN11
stick the belly flop to tail down maneuver for the 1st time! Time flies! Thanks for joining me on this journey 🙏
This is one of the coolest shots of a Falcon 9 landing I’ve ever seen!!! I love how the engine violently reorients the stage on ignition and how they plan that into the landing trajectory. Such impressive engineering. B1060-8 just became B1060-9! 🙌
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7th, 10:00 a.m. central [15:00 UTC], I'll be releasing PART II of my tour of Starbase with
@elonmusk
. As you can tell in this clip, we discuss extremely important things in this conversation 😉😂 Oh, and Raptors... lots of Raptors 😳
REALLLLLLY
@CNBC
and
@YouTube
/
@ytcreators
?!?!?!???? REALLY?!?! I’m one of 75 people ON SITE, working myself to the bone to produce a livestream, paying $1,000 for RTMP feeds of
@NASA
cameras for our own content and you do this?!?! UNACCEPTABLE!!!!
I drove 4,500 miles in 10 days in my
@Tesla
#model3
. I can’t tell you how relaxing and easy it is with autopilot and Tesla’s supercharging network. Is it ridiculous I just want to get back in the car and do it all again? 🙈 best car ever!
@elonmusk
song: “Go For Liftoff”
Hear
@elonmusk
explain
@SpaceX
's workhorse Merlin engine at the heart of their Falcon 9 rocket. We talk a lot about some of the early design decisions, especially with the early Merlin-1C. It's so fun to hear some of the why's of early SpaceX! -
My favorite part of today’s Falcon Heavy launch was when we could see the exhaust cut through the fog shortly after lift off because you can see the center core was throttled down to save prop for after booster separation! Amazing!!!
#USSF44
@elonmusk
There’s been a lot less of this lately. To me, (specifically spaceflight) is extremely uniting, bonding and overall inspirational. Is there a greater good in uniting or dividing? I’d argue uniting.
I would love to know how they prevented flow separation when they fired a vacuum optimized engine at sea level! Normally the pressure at the end of a vacuum nozzle is so low that the ambient air pressure will separate the flame from the nozzle and destroy the engine!
@elonmusk
I really can’t wait to see the first SuperHeavy static fire! Question is: will they do all 33 engines at once or just inner ring / outer ring static fires? 🤔
Air bags go bang 😳 everyone is ok, we were parked and in the car and got hit by someone coming off the beach at a high speed. We actually have it recorded in 6K 😳 curious what that’ll look like 🤔 hopefully MECO can get all mended up fine 🥺😭
There was a big old roll programmed into today’s
@SpaceX
Falcon 9 flight. This is in direct contradiction to what I thought happens with most F9 flights 🤦♂️🤯
@elonmusk
what was the reason for this roll when the F9 can navigate 3D and doesn’t usually roll align to its azimuth?
Despite the overcast conditions, Ryan got one of the best shots of Starship I've ever seen!!! Another teaser at Max Q from our 8" tracking scope w/ our
@RED_Cinema
Komodo X. Our continual upgrades (thanks to all of your support) are paying off!!! MORE TO COME! -
@considercosmos
@elonmusk
It’s unfortunate that people don’t understand just how much the space era helped usher in so much. GPS, software, vast acceleration of computing and computer science, weather & climate observations, communications, the list goes on. Not to mention pure inspiration & exploration.
Isn’t it fun when
@Storyful
puts a copyright claim on your livestream that we’ve worked for years to prepare for and produce? 😪 How unbelievably unfair that they’re claiming 56 seconds of our show is their content (it’s not) and now we are un-monetized 🤦♂️
This is absolutely mind blowing… this is a Falcon 9 to the same scale as Starship!!! [1:100] I’m so honored and grateful to have this masterpiece in my studio!!! A million thanks to
@DaenWiggan
/
@SuperbSpaceToys
/
@MarkoM3D
!!!
I was hanging out in Texas, and just happened to see this water tower flying through the sky with a methane powered full flow staged combustion cycle engine producing beautiful blue shock diamonds... did I just see that
@elonmusk
?! Congrats
@SpaceX
! 4k Slow Mo coming tonight!
No big deal. Just the world’s largest rocket stage ever just driving down the road 😂 this is nuts!!! Stay tuned to hear more about those grid fins will work when I drop my conversation with
@elonmusk
today (hopefully, internet pending)
Tomorrow [July 14th], I'm posting a deep rundown on Raptor 1 VS Raptor 2. It's an overview of the changes
@SpaceX
has made to the engine, their stats, & what things SpaceX is continuing to work on! Featuring incredible renders from
@Caspar_Stanley
and
@IzanRamos2002
!
Another reminder: Starship is a system, it’s not a single vehicle. There will be variants of Starship that absolutely do not fit the normal mold including tanker versions, lunar, and even potentially deep space versions! So expect some with & w/o legs / flaps / nose cone etc
@DJSnM
We could stretch the Falcon Heavy upper stage & increase this a lot, but FH already covers all known payloads.
Starship, especially with orbital refilling & dedicated deep space variants (no heatshield, flaps or header tanks) will take this up orders of magnitude.
This has long been talked about, but having the hardware capable of doing it has never been assembled (or even really made it off paper). NASA wanted to build a larger Saturn V like rocket, NOVA, but it never saw the light of day. Finally, progress is being made 50 years later 🙌
Top secret declassified video of an early Lockheed A-12 prototype has just emerged! Either that or it’s a manatee with two calves 🤔 no way of knowing really!
OHHHH MYYYY GODDDDDD!!! Our remote camera worked and has THE BEST ROCKET AUDIO I’VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE 🤯 STAND BY!!!!!!!! This is going to be the coolest video ever 🤯
Hey
@Twitter
, I’m not like a bot expert or anything… but how about requiring some kind of additional verification / checks if there’s suddenly 100s of accounts with identical photos, names & profiles?… I mean, that seems like a good place to start 🤷♂️ this stuff is ridiculous 🤦♂️
Well, it looks like I’m un-shadow banned AND got verified! Thanks for all of you who helped raise awareness!!! Welp, back to space stuff 🙌 (this studio ain’t gonna build itself and this video ain’t getting reshot on its own ya know 😉) Thanks everyone! 🙏
PART 3 IS LIVE!!! Walk around the Starbase launchpad with
@elonmusk
and I as we discuss the future of Starbase, the ocean launch platforms, and humanity as a whole! This one is fascinating!!! Thanks for showing me around Elon, can't wait to do it again! -
1,000,000 subscribers 🤯 I honestly can’t believe it! Thank you so much for joining me in my ongoing quest to learn as much as I can about rocket science & space exploration 🙌 Celebrate with me Saturday May 29th for a
@ChallengerCtr
fundraiser
@KerbalSpaceP
marathon livestream!
I heard a someone at the press site say “He’s just a YouTuber”(not realizing I heard)Yup! I’m just a YouTuber who has to run every one of my cameras, run audio, do my own research, host, post, edit, do everything your entire crew does. I would never say “You’re just a camera guy”
My discord channel got pretty bored waiting for Starship static fire today and got awfully busy making ridiculous photoshops of Starship... You guys are ridiculous, thanks for making me laugh 😂
The race to capture the American Flag onboard the ISS is officially over with the crew of Crew Dragon ON STATION! Now bring it home safely!! 🙌
@NASA
@SpaceX
#LaunchAmerica
#DM2
It survived?!?! IT SURVIVED!!! And they even fired it at sea level without vacuum conditions (a giant tube)!!!
@elonmusk
how did it hold up at sea level without flow separation?! It looks like it has a big expansion ratio! 🤯
I caught covid on the way home from Texas. Luckily my symptoms haven't been horrible, but it still knocked me out for 5 days of fever, chills, horrible congestion & sore throat, I had to miss family vacation (luckily I didn't go b4 my test) & I've been too low energy to work
You won’t believe what’s happening 😳 that’s right!!! I’m exporting a FULL draft of the “Entire Soviet Engine Family Tree” for review. We still have a few small errors & tweaks, but it’s 1:33:34 of straight up rocket goodness! Patrons/YouTube members, review drops tomorrow!
It was fun hearing
@elonmusk
talk about the tower catching the booster and eventually Starship! I really can’t wait to see the plans for this and I wonder if this first orbital launch tower will have catching arms built into it day one or if it’ll be an eventual thing.
Join
@elonmusk
and I as we walk through Starbase and talk about some updates to
@SpaceX
’s
#Starship
! We talk about chines, grid fins, cold gas thrusters, see the High Bay and Pez dispenser… and this is just part 1 of 4, so you’re in for a treat! 🙌
I can’t believe it... we recovered EVERYTHING! No damage to ANY of our gear by inches, just dirty! The only thing that went wrong was our dish guide wire got hit and it moved our remote connection so we lost footage. Going through the footage now with
@considercosmos
and wow 🤯
How crazy is it that
@SpaceX
just landed a Falcon 9 for the 100th time on the 6th anniversary of landing their 1st booster! Incredible, industry rocking & all around inspirational feats! Great work SpaceX team for setting new standards! Time to do a Falcon 9 evolution vid? 🤔
Gave my parents a tour of
@spacex
’s Boca Chica site. I think they’re catching the bug 😉 it’s hard not to! They kept saying “it just feels like the future!” I agree!
Literally months & months of work have gone into this. I *THINK* I finally finished the most complete family tree of Soviet rocket engines I've ever seen!!! This video is going to be RIDICULOUS. I can't wait to teach you what I've learned! (Thanks for the help
@rweb11742
)
@elonmusk
That all did so much better than I thought 😂 I can’t believe what I just saw. Speechless. Huge huge congrats to you and the
@spacex
team! Incredible milestone