That was the best successful failure I've ever seen.

Can't wait for "How Not to Land an Interplanetary Rocket" Congrats SpaceX, one step closer

And now, 4 months later, SN15 survives its 10km flight! Good job SpaceX!

rocket engineering is extremely difficult, nobody has ever made a rocket first attempt without failures. Kudos to spacex for having the balls to show this, unlike many governments who keep it in secrecy

T-10 starts here ---> 1:48:01 This was more exciting than any action movie that has come out in the last ten years!!

Imagine watching this landing footage in a "How Not to Land an Orbital Class Starship" compilation video, while peacefully relaxing on your couch, on Mars.

Liftoff 1:48:10 1ST Engine Cutoff 1:49:50 2ND Engine Cutoff 1:51:24 Liquid Oxygen Release 1:52:49 3RD Engine Cutoff 1:52:50 vehicle reorientation 1:52:59 Flip Maneuver 1:54:40 Landing Burn 1:54:51 Next Up: SN9 :)

Does anyone just come back here once in a while and watch this while waiting for SN9?

Ye gotta give it to Spacex, their willingness to try mad stuff and fail so publicly is worthy of much respect.

SpaceX - The only UKposts channel with the most budget and least clickbait.

The things space x have done in the last year is mind blowing🤯 imagine what they can do in the next couple of years

This wasn’t a failiure. This was progress. And the fact that it made it up, and turned perfectly makes this a big win. SN9 will nail it!

The way it straightened itself out during landing was one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen!

SN8: "It's not flying, it's falling with style."

I’m just thankful that this made into the no1 trending and not stupid among us or fortnite clickbaits

leaving my comment here for future digital archeologists: this was pretty badass

“Spontaneous unscheduled disassembly of the vehicle.”

Welcome to SpaceX. If you like what you saw, standby. The next Starship (SN9) is already built.

That camera cut to the landing pad cam just as SN8 belches itself into history. Delicious! 👌

"That was not an explosion. That was just a rapid unscheduled device disassembly." That was a great test. Keep going. SpaceX reminds me the spirit of early 20th century inventors.

That last rotation to vertical position was a "HOLY SHIT!!" moment. Nobody was expecting this much success from a first flight. Bravo!

Can we appreciate the fact that this doesn't even have one ad?! Edit. Ironic,r/whoosh for the others.

It's crazy to go back and watch this after IFT-2.

SpaceX a month ago: 28 day raptor swap SpaceX now: give me a beer and a couple hours

They gotta be pleased with that, the control and the flip was amazing.

That first flip was EVERYTHING. Starship was flying. You amaze me SpaceX.

Today makes 2 years of this which was the climax of 2020. It changed my life completely to follow Starship program, and when this flight came... God, it felt like a movie I'd been waiting for years with lots of hype. And when that day came, it changed my attitude and affected directly on my personality (for better), it marked a golden age in that weird year 2020.

anyone else returning to watch what started it all? EDIT: it’s also really impressive seeing how far starbase has come from just a few ground tanks and a landing and launch pad to a full blown launch site with an orbital launch tower

Idc if the landing wasn’t perfect, that flip to straight was a mean ass flex

The whole entire time I was muttering 'holy shit this is actually happening' still don't believe it, when it was belly flopping it looked like it was CGI. Mars, here we come!

Rewatching as SN9 about to take flight. I plan on coming back here everytime until we get to Mars as SN8 is already a part of mankind's history.

2 years later and this pops up on my feed.

Guys in 20 years we all can tell our children we were here for this historic moment! 💪🏻 Great work at Spacex and in America! Greetings from Germany!

SN9: *Nervous sweating*

SN15 did the first successful landing but SN8 is still my favorite, along with SN5, maybe. I still remember how I locked my eyes to some pixels on the screen to see if the rocket was moving or aborting. I felt many different emotions together when I confirmed that the rocket lifted off. "Alright, now it passed the point of no return", "can it still abort the test by any chance, like landing immediately without going high", "what happens if engines fail while flying". Then came the meco1, confusing me along with every fan watching. I actually thought meco1 could be intentional and meco2 almost confirmed it. I had no negative emotions when it did an RUD. I was so happy. Following tests were also fun but SN8 is special for me. Other RUDs actually made me sad, since I had more expectations.

SpaceX is the real life Kerbal Space Program

“If you’re not failing, you’re not innovating enough” Great things are coming, thank you for everything you’re doing for space exploration and keep the hard work!

I count myself as one of the luckiest being to be living in this era.... spectacular

Just after first Starship test, amazing progress

Just looking at how much progress Spacex has made in under a year is mindblowing

"Groundbreaking" for Space X

Hundreds of years later this video will be played in the schools of the Martian colony.

With the full stack Booster 7 and Ship 24 perhaps on Monday 4/17/2023, the site has changed SOOOOO much. It's wild it's only been a couple years since this first test....

20 years from now we will look back on this as the first step of going multiplanetary. I'm proud to have watched it live.

Incredible. To see a space craft do that and nearly stick the landing. Simply incredible.

The best 6 minutes of 2020. Congrats SpaceX that was amazing. Almost perfect on the first try. Be proud.

This will always be my favourite one ;) It was the first to do all the stuff!

What a beautiful day, sn8 was 1 year ago that blows my mind

One day this video will be shown in history classes on Mars.

Elon Musk: "Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!"

Hey Spacex, Thanks for letting us being a part of this test. Feels great to see people going beyond their best.. ❤️

Just like the wright brothers when testing their planes

SpaceX should make another one of those "how not to land an orbital rocket" videos but based on Starship prototypes.

The most kerbal thing i've ever seen

1 year ago. The amount of progress SpaceX made in 1 year would have taken NASA 35 years. The Starship program, ever since I watched this launch live, has continued to amaze me. Every static fire, every flight. It’s cool to see something like this in my lifetime.

This channel needs more subs. More people needa be watching what's happening on spacex.

The fact they can actually guide a rocket to land somewhere still blows my mind. Excellent test. They'll figure this out.

*Giant explosion* "Incredible work team. Nice work." Brings a tear to Jeb's eye

The combined knowledge, craftsmanship, communication, commitment, etc. that this has taken is amazing. If only others could truly understand and appreciate this feat.

SpaceX : one of the very, very few companies out there that allow the public to see their prototype test flights - even doing it in live streams - and then once such flight ends in an anomaly, still posts that stream on their main youtube channel. Superb. Thank you. Maybe my favorite part is that dramatic zoom-out moment after the cloud of fire dissipates. Good cinematic feel there. And yes, 42 really once again proves to be the answer to everthing.

You know a million other things went right during this test... and there was an awesome explosion at the end.

The fact that @SpaceX is willing to and does show their "failures" is simply amazing and heartening to me. They clearly are learning from them, and are not afraid to share them. BRAVO!

1 year today! We will never forget you SN8

You are never been forgotten SN8. Happy birthday

“That, was a noble death.” Napoleon

SN8: *Explodes* SpaceX: Oh no! Anyway on to SN9

THE WAY THE CONTROL SURFACES CONTROL THE MOVEMENT OF THE SHIP IS BADASS!

2022 and I still come back to this specific video.

Guess we had an "rapid unscheduled dissasembly". But the landing flip was the coolest thing ive ever seen, im sure sn9 will make it in 1 piece, maybe.

Well done to the cameraman filming the engine inside, risking their life for us to see

that was a perfectly good camera on the inside of the engine that got blown up.

SpaceX giving me hope for the future, best Christmas gift I could have asked for.

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough." -Elon Musk

We don't need to land in the first try, we need failures to ensure success

They nailed it. This is definitely not a failure. Absolutely amazing !!

Watching from the uk, I’m relatively new to this SpaceX thing and I’m still amazed watching the boosters land on a small drone ship in the ocean, every time I watch these I bore the wife by showing her, I managed to watch SN8 live and was in awe, well done SpaceX I continue to watch in anticipation

This is the most Kerbal thing I've seen in a long time.

Feels completely surreal to see this ROCKET from classic Sci Fi movies being real and flying so cool. Outstanding.

How have 8 months already passed since this???

SN8 - You were truly great and will be remembered in space flight history. RIP SN8 - Long live SN8. SN9 - You do not have a hard act to follow. All you need to do is to have the right tank pressure to land. SN8 has done most of the hard work, exceeding most of our expectations. You go SN9

The first Starship that survives a landing and is put out of commission needs to be put in a museum.

THAT WAS THE COOLEST THING IVE SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE

I sat there with my mouth open and a big grin. Best video I saw in 2020! you rock that!

Stunning! Even the end looked like a well executed demolition. Looking forward to SN9! Was looking forward to watching it live today!

I have never been in so much awe

SN9: **chuckles** I'm in danger 😃

Love the fluid looking movement of the raptors as they manipulate this awesome space ship!

Beautiful video. I’m so nostalgic for these early flight tests, stuff was moving so fast, and it was all out in the open. I can’t wait for OFT 1!

That was perfect, I can't believe you included an "accelerated disassembly" on the landing. AMAZING! 👍👏

The imaginary spaceships of my youth are becoming real, incredible to watch.

i've watched this landing probably 20 times now, i'm still clapping at how cinematic it is.

Dude ... it's very good to be alive to watch these wonders.

The most KSP like landing I’ve ever seen in real footage. And of course Jeb survived.

The future is now, and it's retro 50's. I love this timeline.

Its unbeliveable, awesome work and congrats SpaceX Starship Team!

I like this style of stream better. Seeing all three camera views and no commentator just adds to the immersion and experience in my opinion.

This was NOT A FAILURE - it was a SUCCESSFUL TEST! Congrats, SpaceX team!

Craziest thing I have ever seen live. Can’t imagine what poor SN9 is thinking after watching it’s brother die and knowing it’s next.

1 year ago this epic moment happened

This makes me so happy. Incredible. I can't believe this is happening in my lifetime.