Falcon Heavy & Starman

SpaceX · 9.7M views · 2018-03-11 · 1:53

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Overview

SpaceX's recap of the Falcon Heavy debut launch, with side booster landings and a Tesla Roadster with Starman sent into orbit.

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HN references it for launch footage and the atmosphere of the first Falcon Heavy flight, including the center core landing failure.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2020–2022

Topics

Space exploration & spaceflight

What people said

Robotbeat · 2022-12 · Recommendation
This video showing kids’ reaction to the Falcon Heavy inaugural launch is pretty fun. The dual-landing is absolutely insane. Straight up science fiction. [VIDEO]
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trothamel · 2021-07 · Recommendation
[VIDEO] is my favorite way to watch that launch, just because of the way it integrate the people watching. We haven't had the crowds since the Space Shuttle stopped watching, and DM-2, Crew-1, and Crew-2 all happened during the pandemic - so this shows the old excitement.
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orangecat · 2020-12 · Reference
Unfortunately we didn't get good imagery of that particular catastrophe The best footage I've seen is at 1:10 in this video: [VIDEO]
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