MARS: Inside SpaceX (2018)

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We now go to a historic moment

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at the Kennedy Space Center
in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Elon Musk, the billionaire
founder of SpaceX and Tesla,

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is set to launch the biggest
rocket in the world today.

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You are looking at a
live view of the Falcon Heavy,

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the world's most powerful operational
rocket by a factor of two,

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and today is the day that we have
come to demonstrate that power

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break through Earth's gravitational pull

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and head for a solar orbit,

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including Mars.

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This reported $90 million mission,

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paid for by billionaire SpaceX founder.

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This is a point in history
that we don't come to often.

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We're in this amazing transition point

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that we have not been in
since the moon landings.

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I'm going to step off the LEM now.

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That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.

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With companies like SpaceX,

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we have alignment of so many capabilities

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and opportunities and changes happening

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that are all pushing in one direction,

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which is towards Mars.

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We had plans to land
the first humans on Mars in 1981

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and have a permanent base on
Mars by the late 1980s.

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And if anybody had told me when I was 17

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watching that moon landing
that I would be 64 and

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we wouldn't be on Mars, I would
have thought they were crazy.

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Apollo was, you
know, nearly 50 years ago.

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That's insane, that we went to
the moon with 1960's technology

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and haven't gone back since then

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The question is,
why did we not keep going?

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Going to Mars, it's really expensive.

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It's such a massive human undertaking.

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We need commercial space companies

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that I think are going
to help bring the cost

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of space down, to open the frontier
irreversibly for everybody.

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Please join me in welcoming Elon Musk.

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Thank you.

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What I really want to
try to achieve here is

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to make Mars seem possible,

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make it seem as though it's something

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that we can do in our lifetimes
and that you can go.

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That's what we want.

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We need to go to Mars, because
it protects us from extinction.

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There's all sorts of things
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that'd kill all humans on the planet.

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But once humans are on
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the odds of extinction
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We're currently at T-minus 17 minutes,

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40 seconds and counting down.

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All systems are go for launch
with the SpaceX test flight

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of the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle.

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This window of opportunity is
open for life to go beyond Earth,

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but who knows how long
that window will be open.

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Guys, the tanks are fully loaded.

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- How do you feel?
- Good, I hope.

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As long as they don't blow up.

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That's what the guy from SpaceX said.

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As long as they don't
blow up, we're good to go.

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This kind of thing can barely be done

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by extremely advanced governments.

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T minus 30 seconds.

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And here comes a guy
with 350 million bucks that says,

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I'm gonna start a rocket company
and I'm gonna get us to Mars.

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy, go for launch.

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Humans cannot survive
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Falcon Heavy is on internal power.

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EFTS is ready for launch.

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So, think of everything that
we've achieved as a civilization.

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Falcon Heavy is in start-up.

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Think of everything that
we've achieved as a culture.

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T minus 15, standby for terminal count.

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Guys, here it goes.

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We will go extinct if we do
not become a space-faring species.

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Ten, nine. Eight, seven, six.

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Survival for humanity
in the long run depends on it.

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- Five, four, three.
- Two, one, zero.

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This is hallowed ground.

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It's called Launchpad
39A and it's the place that

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the first humans left Earth

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and went to another heavenly body.

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So, this is, I think, probably,

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I think it's the greatest
launch site on Earth.

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Buzz Aldrin, Mike
Collins, and Neil Armstrong

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get into the transfer van

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to pad 39A.

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Pad 39A was used
for the Apollo 11 mission.

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And then, with the Space Shuttle.

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So, it's a place with incredible
historical significance.

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Now, NASA has given Launchpad
39A to SpaceX to use.

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All right, guys, we're
going to go up the elevator.

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Dad,

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- what is this building for?
- This is the launch tower.

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So, this is where the
astronauts would go up.

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And then there would be a big arm

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that would swing over to the
spacecraft and they'd walk down

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the gangway, climb in the
spacecraft, go to space.

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And this isn't floors, this is feet.

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Pretty cool.

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<i>From the first explorers
who ventured off our planet,</i>

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<i>to those who have risked
their lives in pursuit</i>

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<i>of furthering our
understanding of the universe,</i>

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<i>the astronauts and engineers
behind the US space program</i>

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<i>have spent decades advancing
space technology.</i>

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<i>But building rockets was expensive.</i>

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<i>By the early 2000s the US
space program was struggling,</i>

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<i>and a mission to Mars
was hard to imagine.</i>

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The Space Shuttle spreads
its wings one final time

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for the start of this sentimental

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journey into history.

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<i>It was then that a young entrepreneur</i>

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<i>had a revolutionary idea.</i>

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With SpaceX, what we're trying
to do is achieve a huge advancement

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in rocket technology.

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If you look at rocket technology,
it actually got worse over time.

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In 1969, we were able to go to the moon,

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and then with the Space Shuttle

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we were only able to go
to lower earth orbit.

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And then when the Space
Shuttle went away,

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and then we weren't able to go
to orbit from the United States.

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See, like, that's a negative trend line.

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It's not like you can
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into the future and it gets good.

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It's a trend line to zero.

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So, if it's not gonna
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then it's gotta come
from a private company.

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So Falcon Heavy ended up

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being a much more complex
program than we thought...

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Well, we're super excited
obviously at SpaceX to

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announce, uh, the, some of the details
around the Falcon Heavy rocket,

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which is our, our launch
rocket development,

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really large rocket development.

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<i>Falcon Heavy is the
most powerful operational</i>

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<i>rocket in the world.</i>

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<i>In addition to the center core,</i>

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<i>it's powered by two
Falcon 9 rocket boosters</i>

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<i>that have each flown and
landed once before.</i>

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<i>They'll now be reused to launch Heavy.</i>

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Falcon Heavy is really a
revolution in space technology.

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The long-term goal of SpaceX is to
develop the technology necessary to

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establish a self-sustaining city on Mars.

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One of the most exciting
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is missions like Falcon Heavy.

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These bold missions, these bold
visions for doing things better,

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but also, doing things
on a much grander scale.

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All right guys, let's go ahead

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and get this pre-test going
for dance floor removal.

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It's gonna be the first time that we
do it, so here's the number one rule:

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we're gonna take our time and be safe.

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And so I want everyone to walk
through, make sure the area's clean.

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We're not gonna have access to those
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so let's do a FOD sweep and
then, we can get into it.

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There are things in your
life that you will remember,

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you know, the birth of your kids,

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and then, when we landed
a rocket here, um,

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and this one will be
another one, for sure.

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The fact that we built and are launching

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the largest vehicle since Saturn 5,

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the rocket that took us to the moon,

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folks will look back on Heavy
as a stepping stone to Mars.

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Lift off, we have a lift off.

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Wernher Von Braun,
who built the Saturn 5,

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overbuilt entirely the rocket
to go to the moon.

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Saturn 5 is the largest, longest,

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and heaviest machine
ever built by humans.

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It's absolute overkill
for going to the moon.

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And the reason is Von Braun
didn't want to go to the moon.

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He wanted to go to Mars.

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Von Braun, just like Elon Musk,

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was intensely aware that
humans, in order to survive,

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have to become a space-faring species.

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Mars is the only
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for being multi-planetary

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with the technology that
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Main engines start, zero,

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and lift off of the
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Breaking news this morning,

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the NASA Mars rover Curiosity
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right there on the Red Planet.

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Touchdown confirmed, we're safe on Mars.

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Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity,

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all of these rovers
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and show us that there is water,
that the Martian soil has nutrients.

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Mars is the closest planetary object

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that has all the conditions and resources

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needed to support life and therefore
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We just have to get there.

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Before we do the flight, we
do what's called a static fire.

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So we will load up the propellants
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but hold the rocket down to see

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if there's anything that
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The last interest item is weather.

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The weather is pretty favorable today.

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We're looking at winds
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and the automatic checks come back okay,

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then the rocket will
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For Falcon Heavy we have to
light 27 engines simultaneously,

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so there's a lot that could go wrong.

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So, five hertz is where we really break.

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The static fire lets you
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the pad is ready to go.

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That's also the time when you can find
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- Some are good, some aren't so good.
- AGS, this is the ER.

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We've been having some
conversations with automation.

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It seems like five hertz is a hard limit

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in terms of operation
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If you see this thing coming down
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I think you should be
calling our attention to it.

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We're pretty gun-shy about launching.

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If we see anything that seems
questionable, we don't launch.

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Briefing for instructions for an abort.

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In the need for an urgent abort,
operators shall call, "Hold, hold, hold"

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on the primary countdown net.

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That results in a lot of postponements.

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It is full load then
lift cylinders are attracting.

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Question: Does it, do you guys
want to make that call right now?

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Secure for T-zero-eighty-eight
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Yes, close outs are started.

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ID on countdown, go for static fire.

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Reminder: site booster engine
startup is at T-minus 7 seconds.

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Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three, two, one.

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Full duration, static fire.

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The Falcon Heavy static
fire was a pretty big deal

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because even though
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static fire attempt, honestly,
it is a brand-new vehicle.

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<i>Falcon Heavy is The
culmination of years of innovation</i>

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<i>in rocket technology,</i>

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<i>taking the company one
step closer to Mars.</i>

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It's going to be
exceptionally difficult to go to Mars.

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You're talking about, you know,

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new technologies in virtually
every possible system.

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And this is where, you know,

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science and science-fiction sort
of collide in a way that is, um,

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helpful. You learn a lot more,

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but it also reminds you of just
how much there is at stake.

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Three, two, one.

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There is no such thing
as a perfect record in rocketry.

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On average, 20 percent of all attempts
to get off the face of the Earth

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with a rocket fail.

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And there's a
strained relationship between

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failure, risk, and innovation,

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which is: you can take risks, you
can try something very innovative,

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but you're more likely to fail.

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This is why different types of
rocket companies and NASA itself

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tend to go with older technologies.

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I first met Elon back in 2000.

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And I was actually trying to
talk him out of doing SpaceX.

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I said, look at all of these dead
bodies along the way, you know,

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all of these companies
that have attempted to go.

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I mean, come on, what are the
odds you're going to succeed.

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But he's shown the world it's doable.

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<i>Falcon Heavy has been
seven years in the making,</i>

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<i>but it all started with SpaceX's
first model, the Falcon 1.</i>

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<i>This was their first attempt
to create a reliable,</i>

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<i>low-cost rocket made up of two stages</i>

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<i>and designed to low-Earth orbit.</i>

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Rockets, they really don't want to work.

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They like to blow up a lot.

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Three, two, one, zero, plus
one, plus two, plus three, plus four.

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At the beginning of SpaceX,
I had originally thought, "Okay,

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I've got enough money
for three attempts."

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- Sequence initiated.
- Three, two, one.

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And, uh.

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And we, unfortunately, we
did have three failures.

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Uh, yeah, um, well, failure
sucks. It's really terrible.

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There's a thousand ways
that a rocket could fail,

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and one way that it could succeed.

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Um, and, uh, particularly,
you know, in the beginning,

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they tend to fail more than succeed.

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But we managed to, to scrape together
enough to have a fourth attempt.

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Three, two, one. Zero.
We're at stage one.

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We have liftoff indication.
We have liftoff.

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SpaceX Falcon 1 launch pad,
Falcon has cleared the tower.

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Shutdown. Congratulations. My brother.

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Thankfully, that fourth attempt worked.

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This is just the first step of many.

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And this really opens a way for us to
get Falcon 9 going; get, you know,

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manned space flight and
ultimately getting to Mars.

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I mean, there's just so many cool things
that are, that are there in the future.

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I think that this is definitely, the
future of SpaceX is really great.

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I mean, this is.

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When Elon Musk decided,

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I'm gonna go off and build
my own rocket company,

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everyone thought he was crazy.
Everyone laughed at him.

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No one has ever really
contemplated this in a serious way.

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In the beginning, we
thought, this is so crazy.

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What are we doing trying to come
up with something like this?

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And then, over time, we're like
yeah, it can definitely be done.

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And now we're just kind of
arguing over the details.

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We can explore the universe.
We can put a colony on Mars.

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People can be interplanetary

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and it's just an engineering
problem like any other.

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And it just takes a group
of people who care a lot

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and are happy to work really hard
to make that happen.

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So, the long-term goal is

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how fast can we establish a
self-sustaining city on Mars?

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Do we focus on just
trying to get the ship there

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and then maybe some
people some other time?

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I think we'd send a ship,
make sure it can land okay.

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Assuming that lands okay and
it seems to be working,

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on the next Mars mission we would send

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people and additional equipment.

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SpaceX is like no other rocket company.

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They're in an unglamorous building
in the middle of nowhere,

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in kind of an industrial zone.

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But when you walk into the doors

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and all of a sudden you see
they're making these pristine,

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gorgeous rockets, it feels like you've
walked into a factory on another planet.

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<i>After Falcon 1,</i>

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<i>SpaceX set its sights on the next
phase in their rocket evolution,</i>

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<i>the Falcon 9.</i>

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<i>The design called for a booster which
contained nine Merlin engines,</i>

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<i>and increased the amount it could
lift by more than thirty times.</i>

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<i>But the key component of Te
Falcon 9 design was reusability.</i>

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SpaceX Falcon 9 and
Dragon are go for launch.

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Elon Musk has said the key to get to Mars

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is the reusability of rockets.

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LZ, ID. Go for launch.

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That's an extremely complicated concept.

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He wants to be able to
fire a rocket into orbit,

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launch a payload into space.

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And then fire retrorockets
and bring that rocket down

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to land vertically and reuse it.

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If he cannot make rockets truly reusable,

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then he cannot launch a
new civilization on Mars.

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So SpaceX has an incredible
camera focused on it,

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and an incredible amount of attention.

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Because it's the only
company in the world

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that is actually trying
to do what it's trying to do,

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which is develop the
technology to get humans to Mars.

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Civilization on Earth is
actually very vulnerable.

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Either we're going to
become a multi-planet species,

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a space-faring civilization,

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or we're going to be stuck on one planet

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until some eventual extinction event.

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Lots of rockets fail all the time.

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The only time anybody ever notices
is when a SpaceX rocket fails.

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And it was June 28th, 2015.

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Actually, my birthday. Uh.

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Normally, I'm here for the missions.

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But, uh, thought, okay, well,
it's my birthday, so. And then.

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So that was, that was a real downer.

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After that failure,
obviously we needed to do

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a complete review of the whole rocket.

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So the whole launch
program ground to a halt.

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We had been launching a rocket
about every six weeks or so,

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and then we didn't launch a rocket
for six months.

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And that put a lot of financial
stress on the company,

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because we had all the cost
and none of the revenue.

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One of the most
radical ideas that SpaceX has

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to lower this horrendous cost

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of getting into space is reusability.

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It now costs $60 million every launch.

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Send up a satellite, the rocket gets
destroyed, you've lost $60 million.

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If you can reuse that
rocket a thousand times,

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the cost goes from 60 million to $60,000.

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<i>The SES-10 mission features a Falcon 9</i>

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<i>that had launched and landed once before.</i>

363
00:23:13,703 --> 00:23:17,471
<i>If successful, this would
be an historic day for SpaceX,</i>

364
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<i>the first re-flight of
an orbital class rocket.</i>

365
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We're going try to launch
our first reused rocket.

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This company was founded to
make space more accessible.

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And. uh, the fundamental key in doing
that is having a reusable rocket.

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T-minus ten, nine.

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It's going to drop the cost of
getting to Mars by a huge amount,

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to come back and land at the
launch site and fly again.

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- It's just like an aircraft.
- Two, one.

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Liftoff of Falcon 9, the world's first
re-flight orbital class rocket.

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The cost of fuel and oxygen

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is very low compared to the
cost of the rocket booster

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and the spaceship.

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Stage separation confirmed.

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00:24:04,653 --> 00:24:07,587
Imagine if you took a
flight from New York to London.

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And then, at the end of the flight,
they threw away the plane.

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Imagine how much tickets would
have to cost for that flight

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in order for the airline to make money.
That's ridiculous.

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You reuse the plane.

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I just don't think there's any way

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to have a self-sustaining Mars base

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without reusability. I mean,
this is really fundamental.

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00:24:29,042 --> 00:24:31,877
If wooden sailing ships in the
old days were not reusable,

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I don't think the United States
would exist.

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00:24:34,587 --> 00:24:37,079
But reusability is a very hard problem,

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because you've got to
enter the atmosphere

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at an incredibly blazing-fast speed.

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00:24:46,559 --> 00:24:51,277
You've got to fire the rockets
into a supersonic airstream,

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zero out your velocity,

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deploy the landing gear, and land.

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00:24:56,555 --> 00:24:57,821
And you got one shot.

394
00:25:01,140 --> 00:25:03,574
The pressure is so high on this one.

395
00:25:03,610 --> 00:25:07,444
These rockets are complicated machines,
and, uh, we're doing something new.

396
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,038
There's always uncertainties
associated with that.

397
00:25:11,618 --> 00:25:13,751
Right now, we're just
watching our screen here.

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00:25:13,786 --> 00:25:16,517
And hopefully we'll all see
a, a successful landing,

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00:25:16,542 --> 00:25:17,754
once again, altogether.

400
00:25:17,789 --> 00:25:21,352
If they nail this
ability to land a rocket

401
00:25:21,377 --> 00:25:24,085
from being in space on Earth.

402
00:25:26,065 --> 00:25:28,465
Then they can nail doing it on Mars.

403
00:25:51,656 --> 00:25:56,125
Of course, I still love you.
We have a Falcon 9 on board.

404
00:26:13,878 --> 00:26:16,514
<i>With the success of the SES-10 mission,</i>

405
00:26:16,539 --> 00:26:18,781
<i>SpaceX had all the
ingredients to assemble</i>

406
00:26:18,816 --> 00:26:24,086
<i>the most powerful launch vehicle
since Saturn V, the Falcon Heavy.</i>

407
00:26:24,121 --> 00:26:28,140
<i>Heavy has the ability to lift more
than the weight of a 737 jet,</i>

408
00:26:28,165 --> 00:26:32,327
<i>loaded with passengers,
crew, luggage, and fuel.</i>

409
00:26:32,362 --> 00:26:35,626
<i>With reusable boosters and an
increased payload capacity,</i>

410
00:26:35,651 --> 00:26:37,765
<i>it's able to transport the incredible</i>

411
00:26:37,801 --> 00:26:42,303
<i>amount of supplies needed to build
a human civilization on Mars.</i>

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00:26:44,165 --> 00:26:46,165
_

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00:26:50,146 --> 00:26:53,576
After static fire, we
come back into the hangar,

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00:26:53,601 --> 00:26:54,948
take the fairing off.

415
00:26:54,984 --> 00:26:56,683
We'll have a lot of inspections to do.

416
00:26:56,719 --> 00:26:58,652
We'll have a lot of data to review.

417
00:26:58,687 --> 00:27:00,988
With Heavy, since this launch is a test,

418
00:27:01,023 --> 00:27:03,290
there's a lot that we don't
know about the vehicle yet.

419
00:27:03,326 --> 00:27:06,893
So, we've done hundreds or thousands
of tests of various systems,

420
00:27:06,929 --> 00:27:08,858
but until you put it all together,

421
00:27:08,883 --> 00:27:11,455
you don't really know
what's going to happen.

422
00:27:12,601 --> 00:27:17,079
There's just really no
commercially viable heavy lift vehicle

423
00:27:17,104 --> 00:27:18,571
out there today.

424
00:27:18,607 --> 00:27:21,905
Heavy has about twice
the carrying capacity

425
00:27:21,930 --> 00:27:25,278
of the next biggest
rocket that's out there.

426
00:27:25,313 --> 00:27:29,982
To have the world's largest rocket
flying is really important.

427
00:27:30,018 --> 00:27:33,019
It means we can launch
the larger payloads

428
00:27:33,054 --> 00:27:36,558
that are necessary for getting
things to Mars as well.

429
00:27:37,125 --> 00:27:39,729
Ultimately, any
launch vehicle is intended

430
00:27:39,754 --> 00:27:41,961
to bring a payload to some sort of orbit.

431
00:27:41,996 --> 00:27:44,196
When there's a
test launch of a new rocket,

432
00:27:44,231 --> 00:27:46,431
the convention of the space
industry is actually quite boring.

433
00:27:46,467 --> 00:27:50,369
Like, they'll literally
launch a block of concrete.

434
00:27:50,404 --> 00:27:54,439
Why waste a good test launch
on a block of concrete?

435
00:27:54,475 --> 00:27:59,518
What's the most fun thing that
we could send to Mars orbit?

436
00:28:00,013 --> 00:28:02,180
The suggestion that everyone thought

437
00:28:02,205 --> 00:28:05,551
was the most exciting was to
send a car through space.

438
00:28:05,586 --> 00:28:08,439
And they're putting all sorts
of interesting bits and pieces

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00:28:08,464 --> 00:28:09,655
in the glove compartment,

440
00:28:09,690 --> 00:28:12,257
in the trunk, and we want to have a
big sign that says, "Don't Panic!"

441
00:28:12,293 --> 00:28:14,878
You know, from The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy.

442
00:28:15,762 --> 00:28:18,830
Once we get the go-ahead from all
the responsible engineers saying that

443
00:28:18,865 --> 00:28:21,829
their systems are okay and that
we've checked everything out,

444
00:28:21,854 --> 00:28:23,168
we will put the payload in,

445
00:28:23,203 --> 00:28:26,327
get everything buttoned up, and
finally seal that for flight,

446
00:28:26,352 --> 00:28:27,939
bring it back out onto the pad,

447
00:28:27,974 --> 00:28:30,441
go vertical again, and,
and be ready for launch.

448
00:28:35,258 --> 00:28:37,659
_

449
00:28:37,684 --> 00:28:39,584
One, one note on that top bullet.

450
00:28:39,619 --> 00:28:43,422
So T-minus 30 seconds is when we're
looking to get all decisions

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00:28:43,447 --> 00:28:44,689
on a manual abort.

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00:28:44,724 --> 00:28:46,573
And after that, and after
that we are pencils down,

453
00:28:46,598 --> 00:28:47,925
and will let the vehicle abort system

454
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,493
abort us if something is
truly wrong with the vehicle.

455
00:28:50,529 --> 00:28:53,463
Today is kind of the final
checks of the launch vehicle.

456
00:28:53,498 --> 00:28:58,322
Making sure that the pad and the
launch vehicle are connected together,

457
00:28:58,357 --> 00:29:00,532
talking to teach other,
checking all the final systems,

458
00:29:00,557 --> 00:29:01,972
and things like that.

459
00:29:02,007 --> 00:29:05,409
Giving everyone an opportunity
to voice their opinion

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00:29:05,434 --> 00:29:07,043
about their readiness.

461
00:29:07,078 --> 00:29:09,552
And we have to go look at
something, we'll go look at it.

462
00:29:09,588 --> 00:29:11,381
And we'll go fix it.

463
00:29:11,416 --> 00:29:13,514
There's so much that goes into preparing,

464
00:29:13,539 --> 00:29:15,055
because this was the first time

465
00:29:15,090 --> 00:29:17,387
this vehicle's ever been put together.

466
00:29:17,422 --> 00:29:20,957
So the center core and the second
stage and the fairing are brand new,

467
00:29:20,992 --> 00:29:25,094
but the side cores are actually
boosters that have flown before.

468
00:29:25,130 --> 00:29:28,446
I can't remember how long it's been
since everybody's felt this nervous

469
00:29:28,471 --> 00:29:29,966
and so electric about something.

470
00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:34,904
Because the last thing we want
is to just rush into a disaster.

471
00:29:34,939 --> 00:29:40,409
These types of complicated
missions require large teams

472
00:29:40,444 --> 00:29:44,647
of differently-skilled people to work
together to accomplish something.

473
00:29:44,682 --> 00:29:48,183
Okay, overall status on
work orders tracking very well.

474
00:29:48,218 --> 00:29:51,086
Really impressive by that entire team.

475
00:29:51,121 --> 00:29:54,870
You need people with
skills in a lot of different areas

476
00:29:54,895 --> 00:29:56,858
with expertise in different areas.

477
00:29:56,894 --> 00:30:00,231
But if you have these
big teams of experts,

478
00:30:00,256 --> 00:30:03,265
the impossible really becomes possible.

479
00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:05,410
And just, ID, sorry, one
additional question about winds.

480
00:30:05,445 --> 00:30:08,091
It sounds like we'll be
fairly close to limits,

481
00:30:08,116 --> 00:30:10,752
but still, if things play out tomorrow

482
00:30:10,787 --> 00:30:13,010
- as expected, we'll be on the good side.
- That's right.

483
00:30:13,045 --> 00:30:16,468
If there is a part of the
window that is favorable,

484
00:30:16,493 --> 00:30:19,647
uh, he had to assess the
whole two-and-a-half

485
00:30:19,683 --> 00:30:22,684
- hour window to give his 20 percent.
- Okay, got it.

486
00:30:22,719 --> 00:30:27,822
Falcon Heavy is more complicated
machine, it's a bigger machine,

487
00:30:27,857 --> 00:30:30,026
it's harder to analyze,
and there's more folks

488
00:30:30,051 --> 00:30:32,200
that have to be involved to understand

489
00:30:32,235 --> 00:30:34,060
how it's going to perform.

490
00:30:34,095 --> 00:30:36,763
As we go through the challenges
and we run into problems,

491
00:30:36,788 --> 00:30:39,132
I'm very thankful for the early days

492
00:30:39,167 --> 00:30:41,067
for SpaceX and for launching rockets.

493
00:30:41,102 --> 00:30:43,111
When Ricky Lim and I were
in the Marshall Islands,

494
00:30:43,136 --> 00:30:44,804
when we were on Kwaj
launching Falcon 1's.

495
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,639
Liftoff.

496
00:30:46,674 --> 00:30:49,751
We've had 10 years of
launching rockets together

497
00:30:49,786 --> 00:30:51,844
and working through many,
many challenges.

498
00:30:51,879 --> 00:30:56,849
And over the years, from Falcon 1
to Falcon 9 to Dragon Missions.

499
00:30:56,884 --> 00:30:58,617
Falcon 9 and Dragon are in orbit.

500
00:30:58,653 --> 00:31:02,853
Each one of these has been a
step that allows us to test out

501
00:31:02,878 --> 00:31:04,357
and to build technology

502
00:31:04,392 --> 00:31:07,092
that will eventually
allow us to go to Mars.

503
00:31:07,127 --> 00:31:09,678
Dragon separation stage.

504
00:31:11,232 --> 00:31:14,499
And Falcon Heavy is a next critical step

505
00:31:14,524 --> 00:31:17,002
in the evolution of how we're going

506
00:31:17,037 --> 00:31:20,105
to develop the Mars program.

507
00:31:20,140 --> 00:31:23,038
<i>Now, after almost a decade of work,</i>

508
00:31:23,063 --> 00:31:25,810
<i>there are just 24 hours to go</i>

509
00:31:25,846 --> 00:31:29,158
<i>before Falcon Heavy attempts
its maiden flight.</i>

510
00:31:48,203 --> 00:31:49,769
- All right. Okay.
- Hi.

511
00:31:49,804 --> 00:31:52,004
Are you guys ready?

512
00:31:54,742 --> 00:31:57,046
- Elon, in our lifetimes.
- Yeah.

513
00:31:57,082 --> 00:32:01,647
Where will SpaceX take us or
where will humans go in space?

514
00:32:03,651 --> 00:32:06,719
I'm very hopeful that
humanity will have a base

515
00:32:06,754 --> 00:32:11,456
on the moon and a city on Mars
in our lifetimes.

516
00:32:11,492 --> 00:32:14,893
- In our lifetimes?
- Yes. Yes.

517
00:32:14,928 --> 00:32:18,420
Well, hopefully Falcon
Heavy will inspire people

518
00:32:18,445 --> 00:32:21,200
to think about Mars because, you know,

519
00:32:21,235 --> 00:32:22,698
there's all these defensive reasons of,

520
00:32:22,723 --> 00:32:24,536
like, we want to be a
multi-planet species and,

521
00:32:24,572 --> 00:32:26,555
and then having a life insurance policy

522
00:32:26,580 --> 00:32:28,640
in case something bad happens to Earth.

523
00:32:28,676 --> 00:32:31,099
But I personally don't find
that nearly as motivating

524
00:32:31,124 --> 00:32:32,310
as the excitement of being

525
00:32:32,345 --> 00:32:34,768
a space-faring civilization and
being a multi-planet species

526
00:32:34,793 --> 00:32:35,880
and getting out there among

527
00:32:35,916 --> 00:32:39,250
the stars and seeing what the
universe is all about.

528
00:32:39,285 --> 00:32:41,052
I find it incredibly inspiring.

529
00:32:41,433 --> 00:32:45,618
_

530
00:32:45,653 --> 00:32:46,605
_

531
00:32:46,606 --> 00:32:48,606
_

532
00:32:49,295 --> 00:32:52,162
And when I talk to other
people they also find it inspiring.

533
00:32:52,198 --> 00:32:54,025
The two side racers
are gonna start off the land

534
00:32:54,050 --> 00:32:55,156
right over here.

535
00:32:55,191 --> 00:32:57,618
The third one is gonna
continue going into orbit.

536
00:33:00,072 --> 00:33:01,339
You know, in Apollo,

537
00:33:01,364 --> 00:33:03,874
when people landed on the
moon for the first time,

538
00:33:03,909 --> 00:33:06,543
that was something that was
great for all of humanity.

539
00:33:06,578 --> 00:33:08,911
And there were people
that walked 50 miles

540
00:33:08,936 --> 00:33:11,949
to find the one TV where they
could see the thing live.

541
00:33:11,984 --> 00:33:13,516
What do you think
about this moon landing?

542
00:33:13,552 --> 00:33:16,838
Well, it's the beginning of a
new frontier. The gateway to Mars.

543
00:33:18,357 --> 00:33:21,079
So, whether you're rich or poor,

544
00:33:21,104 --> 00:33:24,958
whatever country you're in,
everyone needs inspiration.

545
00:33:26,164 --> 00:33:28,319
The number of people that came out

546
00:33:28,344 --> 00:33:30,166
and traveled a really far distance,

547
00:33:30,201 --> 00:33:33,234
coming across the country
in certain cases,

548
00:33:33,259 --> 00:33:35,371
and to actually see the public

549
00:33:35,406 --> 00:33:39,108
be that interested in what
we're doing is pretty amazing.

550
00:33:42,446 --> 00:33:44,958
Elon Musk calls this rocket Falcon Heavy,

551
00:33:44,983 --> 00:33:47,150
the biggest rocket to take off from here

552
00:33:47,185 --> 00:33:48,631
since the Apollo moon missions.

553
00:33:48,667 --> 00:33:51,053
This can very well
change the face of space travel.

554
00:33:51,090 --> 00:33:55,033
_

555
00:33:55,058 --> 00:33:57,092
Today's mission is all about the mantra,

556
00:33:57,127 --> 00:33:59,478
"Go big or go home."

557
00:34:01,565 --> 00:34:05,235
Heavy lift capability is
the critical technology needed

558
00:34:05,260 --> 00:34:06,958
to enable human missions

559
00:34:06,993 --> 00:34:10,182
to Mars, and a reusable,
heavy lift vehicle,

560
00:34:10,218 --> 00:34:13,875
is the critical technology
need to settle Mars.

561
00:34:13,911 --> 00:34:16,711
If Heavy, it works, it's an
even better rocket than Falcon 9,

562
00:34:16,746 --> 00:34:18,646
cause it can deliver more payload.

563
00:34:18,682 --> 00:34:20,670
And, you know, like
sending stuff to Mars,

564
00:34:20,695 --> 00:34:23,118
Heavy is really the
vehicle we need for that.

565
00:34:23,821 --> 00:34:30,057
Getting to Mars will be
risky, dangerous, uncomfortable,

566
00:34:30,092 --> 00:34:35,358
but it'll be the greatest adventure
ever, ever in human history.

567
00:34:38,201 --> 00:34:39,467
Hey Zack. It's me and Elon.

568
00:34:39,502 --> 00:34:40,868
Yes, I see you there with Elon.

569
00:34:40,903 --> 00:34:42,736
Did you see the picture I just sent you?

570
00:34:42,771 --> 00:34:44,171
Uh, did you send it over email?

571
00:34:44,207 --> 00:34:46,040
Yeah, I just sent it over email.

572
00:34:46,075 --> 00:34:48,575
So the weather officer is telling
us that it trends better.

573
00:34:48,610 --> 00:34:50,377
- Okay.
- Towards the end.

574
00:34:50,412 --> 00:34:51,862
So we're thinking the recommendation

575
00:34:51,887 --> 00:34:53,714
of going to the end of
the window is pretty.

576
00:34:53,749 --> 00:34:55,060
An extra half-hour?

577
00:34:55,095 --> 00:34:56,120
Um, it's fifty.

578
00:34:56,145 --> 00:34:57,564
- It's 55 minutes.
- Four minutes.

579
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,558
So we're at 3:05 PM T-zero right
now and we have until 4:00 PM.

580
00:35:03,191 --> 00:35:05,654
So if you look at the, uh, picture,

581
00:35:05,679 --> 00:35:09,238
um, the dark blue line
is the latest line.

582
00:35:09,998 --> 00:35:11,140
I'm trying to figure out if this

583
00:35:11,165 --> 00:35:12,466
is trending positively or negatively.

584
00:35:12,501 --> 00:35:16,336
That, that obviously affects
whether we postpone launch or not.

585
00:35:16,371 --> 00:35:19,178
Hey guys, I'm going to give
us a little bit more time to decide.

586
00:35:19,213 --> 00:35:20,473
I'm just going to push the plug.

587
00:35:20,508 --> 00:35:23,025
Yeah, yeah, uh, don't,
yeah, hold the plug for now.

588
00:35:23,050 --> 00:35:24,477
You got it.

589
00:35:24,512 --> 00:35:26,346
When is the soonest we can launch?

590
00:35:26,381 --> 00:35:31,444
The soonest we can launch, um,
we have 90 minute propellant load

591
00:35:31,479 --> 00:35:34,392
at T-minus 85 minutes. That's
the point of no return.

592
00:35:34,427 --> 00:35:36,472
- We start to make the T tab
on the second switch alert.

593
00:35:36,497 --> 00:35:39,392
- 85 minutes.
- That's right. Yep.

594
00:35:39,427 --> 00:35:44,830
Launch day is easily the
most nerve-racking day, ever.

595
00:35:44,866 --> 00:35:47,974
Every launch, every mission,
you want to go perfectly.

596
00:35:48,009 --> 00:35:50,366
But the last couple of hours,

597
00:35:50,391 --> 00:35:52,570
everyone's just looking out for
things that can get in the way

598
00:35:52,606 --> 00:35:54,518
and just removing blockers.

599
00:35:59,046 --> 00:36:01,780
So Elon, I would like to give
you as many options as possible,

600
00:36:01,815 --> 00:36:05,023
I just wanna get the
required items going now.

601
00:36:05,048 --> 00:36:06,032
Okay.

602
00:36:06,068 --> 00:36:07,408
- All right, fire away.
- You got it.

603
00:36:07,444 --> 00:36:09,253
So 3:45 local, I'll give you options.

604
00:36:09,289 --> 00:36:11,038
- Sounds good.
- Okay.

605
00:36:12,626 --> 00:36:14,626
All right, here I go.

606
00:36:14,661 --> 00:36:16,393
All right, he still needs
a little more time,

607
00:36:16,418 --> 00:36:17,862
but we're gonna get the clock rolling.

608
00:36:17,898 --> 00:36:20,798
3:45 pm local, and then,
give him some more time.

609
00:36:22,835 --> 00:36:26,275
The window for the SpaceX
liftoff, is quickly closing down.

610
00:36:26,311 --> 00:36:28,033
They have heavy winds at altitude,

611
00:36:28,058 --> 00:36:30,261
and the wind shear at
altitude could affect

612
00:36:30,297 --> 00:36:32,098
the trajectory of the rocket.

613
00:36:32,134 --> 00:36:35,038
Stage two log slowed. Throttling back.

614
00:36:35,982 --> 00:36:38,318
There's a lot of risk in flight.

615
00:36:39,418 --> 00:36:41,638
There's a lot that could go wrong.

616
00:36:41,667 --> 00:36:44,638
_

617
00:36:45,678 --> 00:36:48,817
_

618
00:36:48,818 --> 00:36:51,698
_

619
00:36:51,742 --> 00:36:54,958
_

620
00:36:54,959 --> 00:36:56,797
_

621
00:36:56,798 --> 00:36:58,798
_

622
00:37:02,140 --> 00:37:04,574
Stage two log slowed.

623
00:37:04,609 --> 00:37:07,742
So about halfway
through the first stage's burn,

624
00:37:07,777 --> 00:37:11,113
the two side boosters will
separate and come back to earth

625
00:37:11,148 --> 00:37:15,162
for a simultaneous landing and
executing a three-burn maneuver

626
00:37:15,197 --> 00:37:17,541
to get them back to landing
zones one and two,

627
00:37:17,566 --> 00:37:19,822
and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

628
00:37:19,858 --> 00:37:22,825
Now, this second stage of the
fairing, right at the very top there,

629
00:37:22,861 --> 00:37:26,528
that second stage will be
sending our payload way out

630
00:37:26,553 --> 00:37:28,430
into a Mars crossing orbit.

631
00:37:28,466 --> 00:37:31,203
So, if all goes well after launch,

632
00:37:31,228 --> 00:37:33,880
we'll have three first
stage cores back on earth,

633
00:37:33,916 --> 00:37:35,480
two for the second time,

634
00:37:35,505 --> 00:37:39,194
and a wealth of data for
perfecting airplane-like operation

635
00:37:39,230 --> 00:37:40,468
in the future.

636
00:37:40,503 --> 00:37:41,907
T minus 10 minutes.

637
00:37:41,942 --> 00:37:43,812
Falcon Heavy is on internal power.

638
00:37:43,847 --> 00:37:47,448
Okay, everything's
great, guys. All systems green.

639
00:37:47,484 --> 00:37:49,650
Okay. Party time.

640
00:37:50,019 --> 00:37:52,720
- How do you feel?
- Good. I hope.

641
00:37:55,591 --> 00:37:58,056
AFTS is ready for launch.

642
00:37:58,091 --> 00:38:00,318
Falcon Heavy is in startup.

643
00:38:01,363 --> 00:38:04,158
You know, I had this image,

644
00:38:05,678 --> 00:38:11,758
just a giant explosion on the pad
with a wheel bouncing down the road,

645
00:38:14,876 --> 00:38:20,238
and, uh, the side boosters
landing somewhere with a thud.

646
00:38:22,198 --> 00:38:27,798
For Falcon Heavy we have to
light 27 engines simultaneously.

647
00:38:29,118 --> 00:38:34,326
This is an incredible amount of force
and noise and vibration and heat.

648
00:38:34,798 --> 00:38:38,897
We will do our best to minimize the risk
associated, but it's a test flight.

649
00:38:40,468 --> 00:38:44,970
And if that thing, I hope, I sure hope
it doesn't, you know, touch wood,

650
00:38:45,005 --> 00:38:47,318
but that thing could blow up on the pad.

651
00:38:48,069 --> 00:38:50,676
SpaceX, Falcon Heavy, go for launch.

652
00:38:59,355 --> 00:39:01,455
Falcon Heavy is on internal power.

653
00:39:03,225 --> 00:39:05,426
AFTS is ready for launch.

654
00:39:05,461 --> 00:39:07,561
Falcon Heavy is in start up.

655
00:39:07,596 --> 00:39:10,964
Okay. So, what we do is launch off,

656
00:39:10,989 --> 00:39:12,732
we run outside and watch it go up.

657
00:39:12,768 --> 00:39:16,335
Actually, give it ten seconds,
'cause you won't be able to see it.

658
00:39:16,371 --> 00:39:18,666
And then, in about ten seconds from that,

659
00:39:18,691 --> 00:39:20,907
after we see this thing go, we're gonna.

660
00:39:20,943 --> 00:39:22,676
T-minus 40 seconds.

661
00:39:22,711 --> 00:39:24,283
T-minus 30 seconds.

662
00:39:27,983 --> 00:39:29,757
Launch director on countdown one,

663
00:39:29,782 --> 00:39:31,850
SpaceX Falcon Heavy, go for launch.

664
00:39:31,886 --> 00:39:34,558
Falcon Heavy is configured for flight.

665
00:39:35,957 --> 00:39:38,924
T-minus 15. Standby for terminal count.

666
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:45,731
And if one of those engines
fails, it will trigger an abort.

667
00:39:46,067 --> 00:39:49,401
- All systems currently green.
- Okay, that's good.

668
00:39:51,941 --> 00:40:00,980
10, 9. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3. 2, 1, 0.

669
00:40:01,015 --> 00:40:02,914
Ignition.

670
00:40:02,949 --> 00:40:04,749
Liftoff. Liftoff.

671
00:40:04,784 --> 00:40:09,421
Go, go, go, go, go. Off the pad.

672
00:40:30,777 --> 00:40:32,076
Oh my, my God.

673
00:40:37,450 --> 00:40:39,183
Oh my God!

674
00:40:48,561 --> 00:40:50,194
Vehicle is supersonic.

675
00:40:50,229 --> 00:40:53,263
You heard the call out.
Vehicle is supersonic.

676
00:40:53,298 --> 00:40:56,700
Side boosters are now throttling
back up to full power.

677
00:40:56,735 --> 00:40:58,401
Vehicle has reached
maximum dynamic pressure.

678
00:40:58,436 --> 00:41:02,998
We passed max Q, the period
of maximum loads on the vehicle.

679
00:41:03,742 --> 00:41:06,109
Oh my God, guys, it took off.

680
00:41:08,180 --> 00:41:09,945
All right, go, go, go!

681
00:41:09,981 --> 00:41:11,981
Go, go, go! Go, go, go!

682
00:41:12,016 --> 00:41:18,178
Major event coming up with side
booster shutdown and separation.

683
00:41:18,233 --> 00:41:19,668
Side boosters take off.

684
00:41:27,765 --> 00:41:29,932
Successful separation!

685
00:41:30,267 --> 00:41:34,970
Yes! Oh my God!

686
00:41:35,006 --> 00:41:37,940
Whooo!

687
00:41:37,975 --> 00:41:38,841
That's unreal.

688
00:41:43,814 --> 00:41:45,053
What?!

689
00:41:49,119 --> 00:41:51,320
We love you!

690
00:41:51,355 --> 00:41:54,398
Central cores are shut down.

691
00:41:55,392 --> 00:41:57,391
The separation confirmed.

692
00:41:57,427 --> 00:41:59,861
Separate core booster start up behind.

693
00:41:59,896 --> 00:42:03,646
Separate core start
from this point forward.

694
00:42:03,681 --> 00:42:05,027
On your screen at the moment,

695
00:42:05,052 --> 00:42:06,439
you've got a few things happening.

696
00:42:06,474 --> 00:42:09,462
On the upper right, you've got
MVAC-D continuing its burn,

697
00:42:09,487 --> 00:42:11,248
and on the two bottom screens,

698
00:42:11,283 --> 00:42:13,227
you've got the side boosters headed back

699
00:42:13,252 --> 00:42:15,455
towards Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,

700
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,513
landing zones one and two.

701
00:42:17,549 --> 00:42:20,750
Both side boosters transonic.

702
00:42:25,958 --> 00:42:27,657
Yes, light. Light.

703
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,868
coming soon,

704
00:42:45,343 --> 00:42:46,843
See?

705
00:42:46,878 --> 00:42:48,010
boom!

706
00:42:57,421 --> 00:42:59,788
Side boosters landing legs have deployed.

707
00:43:08,465 --> 00:43:11,733
LZ1 to LZ2, both side
boosters are touchdown.

708
00:43:11,768 --> 00:43:15,770
Landing operators move on to
recovery one and recovery two.

709
00:43:15,806 --> 00:43:17,973
Stage two, ASTS has saved.

710
00:43:23,213 --> 00:43:25,113
I don't see any fire plumes over there.

711
00:43:34,324 --> 00:43:37,291
That's the, the booster's
already over Africa.

712
00:43:37,327 --> 00:43:40,928
It's going to be over
Nigeria right now. Yeah.

713
00:43:40,963 --> 00:43:43,196
Stage two position.

714
00:43:43,232 --> 00:43:45,499
That's the ground track.

715
00:43:45,535 --> 00:43:47,267
It's fast!

716
00:43:47,302 --> 00:43:49,998
New ways of traveling, guys.

717
00:43:50,573 --> 00:43:52,918
Hugs, congrats.

718
00:44:12,260 --> 00:44:14,928
Congrats, Charlie.

719
00:44:14,963 --> 00:44:16,829
Holy cow! Look at that!

720
00:44:16,865 --> 00:44:18,323
Dude, that is awesome.

721
00:44:23,504 --> 00:44:26,138
Guys, do you see this?
Look at the car in space.

722
00:44:26,174 --> 00:44:30,943
You guys have been in the car.
I've driven you in that car.

723
00:44:32,646 --> 00:44:34,718
This is so trippy.

724
00:44:37,651 --> 00:44:39,858
We want to demonstrate that Falcon Heavy

725
00:44:39,883 --> 00:44:41,954
is capable of getting to Mars orbit.

726
00:44:41,989 --> 00:44:43,989
- Yeah!!

727
00:44:44,024 --> 00:44:46,612
If it's, like, out there
floating for millions

728
00:44:46,637 --> 00:44:48,594
or maybe a billion years, and then,

729
00:44:48,629 --> 00:44:52,864
you know, maybe long after human
civilization is maybe gone, maybe some,

730
00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:55,801
some future ancient civilization will
come around and find it and say,

731
00:44:55,836 --> 00:44:59,404
"Hey, this is cool. I wonder
what those guys were up to."

732
00:45:06,813 --> 00:45:07,979
Awesome.

733
00:45:13,420 --> 00:45:17,358
It's, it's one of those things
that's a reason to live.

734
00:45:19,025 --> 00:45:23,060
Life cannot just be about solving one
miserable problem after another.

735
00:45:23,096 --> 00:45:24,885
There have to be reasons that,

736
00:45:25,959 --> 00:45:28,165
where you wake up in the
morning and you look forward

737
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,769
to being alive and you're
excited about the future.

738
00:45:31,804 --> 00:45:33,670
...smile.

739
00:45:33,705 --> 00:45:37,038
That's, I think, what Mars
represents most to me.

740
00:45:37,643 --> 00:45:40,276
It's seeing what the
universe is all about.