MARS: Inside SpaceX (2018)

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ALI: We now go to a historic
moment 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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LAUREN: 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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TOM: The mission: break through
Earth's gravitational pull
and head for a solar orbit,

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including Mars.

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This reported $90 million
mission, paid for by
billionaire SpaceX founder.

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

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We're in this amazing transition
point that we have not been in
since the moon landings.

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NEIL: 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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CASEY: With companies like
SpaceX, we have alignment
of so many capabilities

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and opportunities and changes
happening that are all
pushing in one direction,

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which is towards Mars.

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ROBERT: 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 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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PETER: 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
and haven't gone back since then

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CASEY: The question is,
why did we not keep going?

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PETER: 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 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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JEAN-YVES: Please join me
in welcoming Elon Musk.

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[applause]

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

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

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But once humans are on two
different planets, the odds of
extinction drop to nearly zero.

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JOHN: We're currently
at T-minus 17 minutes, 40
seconds and counting down.

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All systems are go for launch
with the SpaceX test flight of
the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle.

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ELON: 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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EMPLOYEE: How do you feel?
ELON: Good, I hope. [laughs]

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FEMALE: 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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STEPHEN: This kind of thing can
barely be done by extremely
advanced governments.

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MALE: T minus 30 seconds.

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STEPHEN: 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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RICKY: SpaceX Falcon
Heavy, go for launch.

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STEPHEN: Humans cannot survive
on Earth indefinitely.

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MALE: Falcon Heavy is on
internal power.
EFTS is ready for launch.

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

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MALE: Falcon Heavy
is in start-up.

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

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FEMALE: T minus 15,
standby for terminal count.
ELON: Guys, here it goes.

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

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FEMALE: Ten, nine. Eight, seven,
six.

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STEPHEN: Survival for humanity
in the long run depends on it.
FEMALE: Five, four, three.

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ELON: Two, one, zero.

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ELON: This is hallowed ground.

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It's called Launchpad 39A
and it's the place that 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, I think it's the
greatest launch site on Earth.

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JULES: Buzz Aldrin, Mike
Collins, and Neil Armstrong
get into the transfer van

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to pad 39A.

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ELON: 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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KAI: Dad,

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what is this building for?
ELON: 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 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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NARRATOR: From the first
explorers who ventured
off our planet,

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to those who have risked
their lives in pursuit

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of furthering our
understanding of the universe,

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the astronauts and engineers
behind the US space program

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have spent decades advancing
space technology.

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But building rockets
was expensive.

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By the early 2000s the US
space program was struggling,

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and a mission to Mars
was hard to imagine.

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ROB: The Space Shuttle spreads
its wings one final time for
the start of this sentimental

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journey into history.

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NARRATOR: It was then
that a young entrepreneur
had a revolutionary idea.

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ELON: 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
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
extrapolate that trend line 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 come from
the government, then it's gotta
come from a private company.

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So Falcon Heavy ended up
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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NARRATOR: Falcon Heavy is
the most powerful operational
rocket in the world.

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In addition to the center core,
it's powered by two Falcon 9
rocket boosters

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that have each flown and
landed once before.

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They'll now be reused
to launch Heavy.

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ELON: 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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[music]

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RICKY: One of the most exciting
parts of working at SpaceX 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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SAM: All right guys, let's go
ahead 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 areas once
the dance floor is out,

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so let's do a FOD sweep and
then, we can get into it.

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LEE: There are things in your
life that you will remember, you
know, the birth of your kids,

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and then, when we landed a
rocket here, um, and this one
will be another one, for sure.

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The fact that we built and
are launching 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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REPORTER: Lift off,
we have a lift off.

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STEPHEN: 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, 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, was intensely aware that
humans, in order to survive,

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have to become a
space-faring species.

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ELON: Mars is the only
possibility in our solar system
for being multi-planetary

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with the technology that
we're aware of right now.

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GEORGE: Main engines start,
zero, and lift off of
the Atlas 5 with Curiosity.

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ROB: Breaking news this morning,
the NASA Mars rover Curiosity
touched down this morning,

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right there on the Red Planet.
MALE: Touchdown confirmed,
we're safe on Mars.

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[applause][cheers]

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PETER: Spirit, Opportunity,
Curiosity, all of these rovers
have started to unveil,

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and show us that there is
water, that the Martian
soil has nutrients.

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ROBERT: Mars is the closest
planetary object that has all
the conditions and resources

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needed to support life and
therefore technological
civilization.

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We just have to get there.

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

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So we will load up
the propellants and
start the engines,

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but hold the rocket down
to see if there's anything
that seems suspicious to us.

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RICKY: 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
above 25 miles per hour.

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ELON: And assuming that all the
manual checks and the automatic
checks come back okay,

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then the rocket will
be released for launch.

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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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JARED: So, five hertz is
where we really break.

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JARED: Yeah.

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RICKY: The static fire lets you
make sure the rocket's healthy,
the pad is ready to go.

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That's also the time when
you can find some really
significant surprises.

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Some are good, some
aren't so good.
JARED: 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 in terms of
operation of that auto engine.

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If you see this thing
coming down toward six
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I think you should be
calling our attention to it.

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ELON: 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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RICKY: 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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ELON: That results in
a lot of postponements.

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MALE: 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
point three degrees.

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Yes, close outs are started.
RICKY: LD 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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FEMALE: Ten, nine,
eight, seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one.

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[music]

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RICKY: Full duration, static
fire.

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[applause]

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The Falcon Heavy static fire was
a pretty big deal because even
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static fire attempt, honestly,
it is a brand-new vehicle.

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NARRATOR: Falcon Heavy is the culmination of years of innovation in rocket technology,

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taking the company one
step closer to Mars.

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DR. ISLER: It's going
to be exceptionally
difficult to go to Mars.

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You're talking about, you know,
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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MALE: Three, two, one.

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STEPHEN: 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 with a rocket fail.

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CASEY: And there's a strained
relationship between 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 tend to go with older
technologies.

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PETER: 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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NARRATOR: Falcon Heavy has been
seven years in the making,

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but it all started with SpaceX's first model, the Falcon 1.

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This was their first attempt
to create a reliable, low-cost
rocket made up of two stages

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and designed to low-Earth orbit.

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ELON: Rockets, they really
don't want to work.

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They like to blow up a lot.

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

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ELON: 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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MALE: Sequence initiated.
FEMALE: Three, two, one.

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ELON: 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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[Laughs]

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There's a thousand ways that a
rocket could fail, and one way
that it could succeed.

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Um, and, uh, particularly, you
know, in the beginning, 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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FEMALE: 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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[applause][cheers]

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MALE: Shutdown. Congratulations.
My brother.

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ELON: 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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[applause][cheers]

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STEPHEN: When Elon Musk
decided, 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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ELON: 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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SHANA: We can explore the
universe. We can put a
colony on Mars.

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People can be interplanetary
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 and are
happy to work really hard

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to make that happen.

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ELON: So, the long-term goal
is how fast can we establish a
self-sustaining city on Mars?

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EMPLOYEE: 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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ELON: 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, on the
next Mars mission we would send

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people and additional equipment.

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STEPHEN: 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
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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NARRATOR: After Falcon 1, SpaceX set its sights on the next phase in their rocket evolution,

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the Falcon 9.

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The design called for a
booster which contained
nine Merlin engines,

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and increased the
amount it could lift by
more than thirty times.

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But the key component of the Falcon 9 design was reusability.

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MALE: SpaceX Falcon 9 and
Dragon are go for launch.

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STEPHEN: Elon Musk has said
the key to get to Mars is
the reusability of rockets.

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RICKY: LZ, LD. Go for launch.

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STEPHEN: That's an extremely
complicated concept.

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He wants to be able to fire
a rocket into orbit, launch
a payload into space.

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And then fire retrorockets
and bring that rocket down to
land vertically and reuse it.

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If he cannot make rockets truly
reusable, then he cannot launch
a new civilization on Mars.

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So SpaceX has an incredible
camera focused on it, and an
incredible amount of attention.

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Because it's the only company in
the world that is actually
trying to do what it's trying to

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do, which is develop
the technology to
get humans to Mars.

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[applause][cheers]

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Civilization on Earth is
actually very vulnerable.

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ELON: Either we're going to
become a multi-planet species,
a space-faring civilization,

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or we're going to be stuck
on one planet until some
eventual extinction event.

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[explosion]

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[explosion]

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[explosion]

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STEPHEN: 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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ELON: 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 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, and
then we didn't launch a rocket

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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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STEPHEN: One of the most
radical ideas that SpaceX has
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, the cost goes
from 60 million to $60,000.

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NARRATOR: The SES-10 mission features a Falcon 9 that had launched and landed once before.

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If successful, this would
be an historic day for SpaceX,

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the first re-flight of
an orbital class rocket.

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MARK: 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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MALE: T-minus ten, nine.

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ELON: 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.
MALE: Two, one.

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

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ELON: The cost of fuel and
oxygen is very low compared to
the cost of the rocket booster

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and the spaceship.

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MALE: Stage
separation confirmed.

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ANDY: 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
in order for the airline

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to make money. That's
ridiculous.

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You reuse the plane.

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ELON: I just don't think
there's any way to have a
self-sustaining Mars base

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without reusability. I mean,
this is really fundamental.

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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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But reusability is a very
hard problem, because you've
got to enter the atmosphere

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at an incredibly
blazing-fast speed.

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You've got to fire the rockets
into a supersonic airstream,
zero out your velocity,

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deploy the landing
gear, and land.

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And you got one shot.

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MARK: The pressure is
so high on this one.

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These rockets are complicated
machines, and, uh,
we're doing something new.

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There's always uncertainties
associated with that.

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KATE: Right now, we're just
watching our screen here.

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And hopefully we'll all see
a, a successful landing,
once again, altogether.

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STEPHEN: If they nail this
ability to land a rocket from
being in space on Earth.

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Then they can nail
doing it on Mars.

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[applause][cheers]

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[music]

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MALE: Of course, I still
love you. We have a Falcon 9
on board.

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[applause][shouting cheers]

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[music]

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[applause][

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NARRATOR: With the success of
the SES-10 mission, SpaceX had
all the ingredients to assemble

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the most powerful launch
vehicle since Saturn
V, the Falcon Heavy.

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Heavy has the ability to lift
more than the weight of a 737
jet, loaded with passengers,

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crew, luggage, and fuel.

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With reusable boosters and an increased payload capacity, it's able to transport the incredible

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amount of supplies
needed to build a human
civilization on Mars.

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GREG: After static fire, we
come back into the hangar,
take the fairing off.

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We'll have a lot of
inspections to do.

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We'll have a lot
of data to review.

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With Heavy, since this
launch is a test,

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there's a lot that we don't
know about the vehicle yet.

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So, we've done hundreds
or thousands of tests
of various systems,

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but until you put it all
together, you don't really
know what's going to happen.

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LEE: There's just really
no commercially viable heavy
lift vehicle out there today.

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Heavy has about twice the
carrying capacity of the next
biggest rocket that's out there.

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To have the world's
largest rocket flying
is really important.

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It means we can launch
the larger payloads

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that are necessary for getting
things to Mars as well.

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GREG: Ultimately, any launch
vehicle is intended to bring a
payload to some sort of orbit.

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ELON: When there's a
test launch of a new rocket,

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the convention of the space
industry is actually quite
boring.

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Like, they'll literally
launch a block of concrete.

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Why waste a good test launch
on a block of concrete?

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What's the most fun thing that
we could send to Mars orbit?

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The suggestion that everyone
thought was the most exciting
was to send a car through space.

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And they're putting all sorts
of interesting bits and pieces
in the glove compartment,

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in the trunk, and we
want to have a big sign
that says, "Don't Panic!"

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You know, from The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy.

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GREG: Once we get the go-ahead
from all the responsible
engineers saying that

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their systems are okay and that
we've checked everything out,
we will put the payload in,

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get everything buttoned up, and
finally seal that for flight,
bring it back out onto the pad,

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go vertical again, and,
and be ready for launch.

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JARED: One, one note
on that top bullet.

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So T-minus 30 seconds is when
we're looking to get all
decisions on a manual abort.

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And after that, and after that
we are pencils down, and will
let the vehicle abort system

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abort us if something is
truly wrong with the vehicle.

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LEE: Today is kind of the final
checks of the launch vehicle.

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Making sure that the pad
and the launch vehicle
are connected together,

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talking to teach
other, checking all the final
systems, and things like that.

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Giving everyone an opportunity
to voice their opinion about
their readiness.

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And we have to go look at
something, we'll go look at it.

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And we'll go fix it.

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RICKY: There's so much that
goes into preparing, because
this was the first time

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this vehicle's ever
been put together.

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So the center core and
the second stage and the
fairing are brand new,

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but the side cores are actually
boosters that have flown before.

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I can't remember how long it's
been since everybody's felt this
nervous and so electric about
something.

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Because the last thing we want
is to just rush into a disaster.

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JENNIFER: These types
of complicated missions
require large teams

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of differently-skilled
people to work together
to accomplish something.

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RICKY: Okay, overall status on
work orders tracking very well.

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Really impressive
by that entire team.

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JENNIFER: You need people with
skills in a lot of different
areas with expertise in
different areas.

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But if you have these big teams
of experts, the impossible
really becomes possible.

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ZACH: And just, LD, sorry, one
additional question about winds.

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It sounds like we'll be fairly
close to limits, but still, if
things play out tomorrow

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-as expected, we'll be
on the good side.
RICKY: That's right.

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If there is a part of the window
that is favorable, uh, he had to
assess the whole two-and-a-half

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-hour window to give his 20
percent.
ZACH: Okay, got it.

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Falcon Heavy is more complicated
machine, it's a bigger machine,

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it's harder to analyze, and
there's more folks that have
to be involved to understand

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how it's going to perform.

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As we go through the challenges
and we run into problems, I'm
very thankful for the early days

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for SpaceX and for
launching rockets.

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When Ricky Lim and I were in the
Marshall Islands, when we were
on Kwaj launching Falcon 1's.

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MALE: Liftoff.

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ZACH: We've had 10 years of
launching rockets together

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and working through many,
many challenges.

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And over the years,
from Falcon 1 to Falcon
9 to Dragon Missions.

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MALE: Falcon 9 and
Dragon are in orbit.

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ZACH: Each one of these has
been a step that allows us to
test out and to build technology

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that will eventually
allow us to go to Mars.

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MALE: Dragon separation stage.

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ZACH: And Falcon Heavy is a
next critical step in the
evolution of how we're going

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to develop the Mars program.

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NARRATOR: Now, after almost a
decade of work, there are just
24 hours to go before Falcon

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Heavy attempts
its maiden flight.

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[music]

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ELON: All right. Okay.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Hi.

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ELON: Are you guys ready?

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TOM: Elon, in our lifetimes.
ELON: Yeah.

420
00:32:04,313 --> 00:32:09,928
TOM: Where will SpaceX
take us or where will
humans go in space?

421
00:32:09,971 --> 00:32:13,018
ELON: I'm very hopeful that
humanity will have a base

422
00:32:13,061 --> 00:32:17,761
on the moon and a city on Mars
in our lifetimes.

423
00:32:17,805 --> 00:32:21,200
TOM: In our lifetimes?
ELON: Yes. Yes.

424
00:32:21,243 --> 00:32:27,510
Well, hopefully Falcon Heavy
will inspire people to think
about Mars because, you know,

425
00:32:27,554 --> 00:32:30,861
there's all these defensive
reasons of, like, we want to
be a multi-planet species and,

426
00:32:30,905 --> 00:32:34,953
and then having
a life insurance policy in case
something bad happens to Earth.

427
00:32:34,996 --> 00:32:38,608
But I personally don't find
that nearly as motivating
as the excitement of being

428
00:32:38,652 --> 00:32:42,177
a space-faring civilization and
being a multi-planet species
and getting out there among

429
00:32:42,221 --> 00:32:45,572
the stars and seeing what the
universe is all about.

430
00:32:45,615 --> 00:32:47,356
I find it incredibly inspiring.

431
00:32:55,625 --> 00:32:58,454
ELON: And when I talk
to other people they
also find it inspiring.

432
00:32:58,498 --> 00:33:01,109
OBSERVER: The two side
racers are gonna start off
the land right over here.

433
00:33:01,153 --> 00:33:03,459
The third one is gonna
continue going into orbit.

434
00:33:06,462 --> 00:33:10,249
ELON: You know, in Apollo,
when people landed on the
moon for the first time,

435
00:33:10,292 --> 00:33:12,947
that was something that was
great for all of humanity.

436
00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:18,300
And there were people that
walked 50 miles to find the
one TV where they could see
the thing live.

437
00:33:18,344 --> 00:33:20,259
SAM: What do you think
about this moon landing?

438
00:33:20,302 --> 00:33:22,913
FRANK: Well, it's the
beginning of a new frontier.
The gateway to Mars.

439
00:33:24,741 --> 00:33:31,531
ELON: So, whether you're rich
or poor, whatever country you're
in, everyone needs inspiration.

440
00:33:32,532 --> 00:33:36,536
RICKY: The number of people
that came out and traveled
a really far distance,

441
00:33:36,579 --> 00:33:41,758
coming across the country in
certain cases, and to actually
see the public

442
00:33:41,802 --> 00:33:45,501
be that interested in what
we're doing is pretty amazing.

443
00:33:48,852 --> 00:33:53,509
TOM: Elon Musk calls this
rocket Falcon Heavy, the biggest
rocket to take off from here

444
00:33:53,553 --> 00:33:55,163
since the Apollo moon missions.

445
00:33:55,207 --> 00:33:57,426
INTERVIEWER: This can very well
change the face of space travel.

446
00:34:01,430 --> 00:34:03,519
TOM: Today's mission is
all about the mantra,

447
00:34:03,563 --> 00:34:05,217
"Go big or go home."

448
00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:13,094
ROBERT: Heavy lift capability
is the critical technology
needed to enable human missions

449
00:34:13,138 --> 00:34:16,315
to Mars, and a reusable,
heavy lift vehicle,

450
00:34:16,358 --> 00:34:20,319
is the critical technology
need to settle Mars.

451
00:34:20,362 --> 00:34:23,148
MARK: If Heavy, it works,
it's an even better
rocket than Falcon 9,

452
00:34:23,191 --> 00:34:25,498
cause it can deliver
more payload.

453
00:34:25,541 --> 00:34:30,198
And, you know, like sending
stuff to Mars, Heavy is really
the vehicle we need for that.

454
00:34:30,242 --> 00:34:36,509
ELON: Getting to Mars will be
risky, dangerous, uncomfortable,

455
00:34:36,552 --> 00:34:41,514
but it'll be the greatest
adventure ever, ever
in human history.

456
00:34:44,647 --> 00:34:45,909
RICKY: Hey Zack.
It's me and Elon.

457
00:34:45,953 --> 00:34:47,302
Yes, I see you there with Elon.

458
00:34:47,346 --> 00:34:49,174
Did you see the picture
I just sent you?

459
00:34:49,217 --> 00:34:50,610
ZACH: Uh, did you
send it over email?

460
00:34:50,653 --> 00:34:52,481
RICKY: Yeah, I just
sent it over email.

461
00:34:52,525 --> 00:34:55,049
So the weather
officer is telling us
that it trends better.

462
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:57,225
ZACH: Okay.
RICKY: Towards the end.

463
00:34:57,269 --> 00:35:00,141
So we're thinking the
recommendation of going to the
end of the window is pretty.

464
00:35:00,185 --> 00:35:02,012
ELON: An extra half-hour?

465
00:35:02,056 --> 00:35:03,797
ZACH: Um, it's fifty.
RICKY: It's 55 minutes.
ZACH: Four minutes.

466
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:09,672
So we're at 3:05 PM T-zero right
now and we have until 4:00 PM.

467
00:35:09,716 --> 00:35:16,462
RICKY: So if you look at the,
uh, picture, um, the dark
blue line is the latest line.

468
00:35:16,505 --> 00:35:18,986
ELON: I'm trying to figure
out if this is trending
positively or negatively.

469
00:35:19,029 --> 00:35:22,859
That, that obviously
affects whether we
postpone launch or not.

470
00:35:22,903 --> 00:35:25,253
RICKY: Hey guys, I'm
going to give us a little
bit more time to decide.

471
00:35:25,297 --> 00:35:27,299
I'm just going to push the plug.

472
00:35:27,342 --> 00:35:30,998
ELON: Yeah, yeah, uh, don't,
yeah, hold the plug for now.
RICKY: You got it.

473
00:35:31,041 --> 00:35:32,956
ELON: When is the
soonest we can launch?

474
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,613
ZACH: The soonest we can
launch, um, we have 90 minute
propellant load

475
00:35:37,657 --> 00:35:40,486
at T-minus 85 minutes. That's
the point of no return.

476
00:35:40,529 --> 00:35:43,793
-We start to make the T tab
on the second switch alert.
ELON: 85 minutes.

477
00:35:43,837 --> 00:35:45,926
ZACH: That's right. Yep.

478
00:35:45,969 --> 00:35:51,323
RICKY: Launch day is easily the
most nerve-racking day, ever.

479
00:35:51,366 --> 00:35:54,152
Every launch, every mission,
you want to go perfectly.

480
00:35:54,195 --> 00:35:59,113
But the last couple of hours,
everyone's just looking out for
things that can get in the way

481
00:35:59,157 --> 00:36:00,332
and just removing blockers.

482
00:36:05,641 --> 00:36:08,340
So Elon, I would like to give
you as many options as possible,

483
00:36:08,383 --> 00:36:12,257
-I just wanna get the required
items going now.
ELON: Okay.

484
00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:13,432
-All right, fire away.
RICKY: You got it.

485
00:36:13,475 --> 00:36:15,825
So 3:45 local, I'll
give you options.

486
00:36:15,869 --> 00:36:17,044
ELON: Sounds good.
RICKY: Okay.

487
00:36:19,220 --> 00:36:21,440
RICKY: All right, here I go.

488
00:36:21,483 --> 00:36:24,443
All right, he still needs a
little more time, but we're
gonna get the clock rolling.

489
00:36:24,486 --> 00:36:27,359
3:45 pm local, and then,
give him some more time.

490
00:36:29,404 --> 00:36:32,320
KATY: The window for
the SpaceX liftoff, is
quickly closing down.

491
00:36:32,364 --> 00:36:36,324
TOM: They have heavy winds at
altitude, and the wind shear
at altitude could affect

492
00:36:36,368 --> 00:36:38,457
the trajectory of the rocket.

493
00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:40,676
MALE: Stage two log slowed.
Throttling back.

494
00:36:42,548 --> 00:36:45,986
ELON: There's a lot
of risk in flight.

495
00:36:46,029 --> 00:36:47,205
There's a lot that
could go wrong.

496
00:37:08,791 --> 00:37:11,229
MALE: Stage two log slowed.

497
00:37:11,272 --> 00:37:13,927
MICHAEL: So about halfway
through the first stage's burn,

498
00:37:13,970 --> 00:37:17,757
the two side boosters will
separate and come back to earth

499
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,326
for a simultaneous landing and
executing a three-burn maneuver

500
00:37:21,369 --> 00:37:26,461
to get them back to landing
zones one and two, and Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station.

501
00:37:26,505 --> 00:37:29,464
Now, this second stage
of the fairing, right
at the very top there,

502
00:37:29,508 --> 00:37:35,078
that second stage will be
sending our payload way out
into a Mars crossing orbit.

503
00:37:35,122 --> 00:37:40,083
So, if all goes well after
launch, we'll have three first
stage cores back on earth,

504
00:37:40,127 --> 00:37:45,480
two for the second time, and a
wealth of data for perfecting
airplane-like operation

505
00:37:45,524 --> 00:37:46,873
in the future.

506
00:37:46,916 --> 00:37:48,222
RICKY: T minus 10 minutes.

507
00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:50,442
Falcon Heavy is
on internal power.

508
00:37:50,485 --> 00:37:54,097
ELON: Okay, everything's
great, guys. All systems green.

509
00:37:54,141 --> 00:37:56,274
Okay. Party time.

510
00:37:56,665 --> 00:37:59,364
EMPLOYEE: How do you feel?
ELON: Good. I hope.

511
00:37:59,407 --> 00:38:02,236
[laughs]

512
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,369
MALE: AFTS is ready for launch.

513
00:38:04,412 --> 00:38:08,068
Falcon Heavy is in startup.

514
00:38:08,111 --> 00:38:12,072
ELON: You know, I
had this image,

515
00:38:12,115 --> 00:38:17,382
just a giant explosion on the
pad with a wheel bouncing down
the road,

516
00:38:21,603 --> 00:38:26,173
and, uh, the side boosters
landing somewhere with a thud.

517
00:38:28,610 --> 00:38:35,530
For Falcon Heavy we have to
light 27 engines simultaneously.

518
00:38:35,574 --> 00:38:41,057
This is an incredible
amount of force and noise
and vibration and heat.

519
00:38:41,101 --> 00:38:45,627
We will do our best to
minimize the risk associated,
but it's a test flight.

520
00:38:47,194 --> 00:38:51,677
And if that thing, I hope,
I sure hope it doesn't,
you know, touch wood,

521
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:53,853
but that thing could
blow up on the pad.

522
00:38:55,420 --> 00:38:57,378
RICKY: SpaceX, Falcon
Heavy, go for launch.

523
00:39:07,997 --> 00:39:10,173
MALE: Falcon Heavy
is on internal power.

524
00:39:11,914 --> 00:39:14,134
AFTS is ready for launch.

525
00:39:14,177 --> 00:39:16,266
Falcon Heavy is in start up.

526
00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:21,402
ELON: Okay. So, what we do is
launch off, we run outside and
watch it go up.

527
00:39:21,446 --> 00:39:25,014
Actually, give it
ten seconds, 'cause you
won't be able to see it.

528
00:39:25,058 --> 00:39:29,584
And then, in about ten seconds
from that, after we see this
thing go, we're gonna.

529
00:39:29,628 --> 00:39:31,369
SON: T-minus 40 seconds.

530
00:39:31,412 --> 00:39:32,718
FEMALE: T-minus 30 seconds.

531
00:39:32,761 --> 00:39:36,635
[applause] [cheers]

532
00:39:36,678 --> 00:39:40,508
RICKY: Launch director on
countdown one, SpaceX Falcon
Heavy, go for launch.

533
00:39:40,552 --> 00:39:44,599
MALE: Falcon Heavy is
configured for flight.

534
00:39:44,643 --> 00:39:47,602
FEMALE: T-minus 15. Standby for
terminal count.

535
00:39:47,646 --> 00:39:54,392
ELON: And if one of
those engines fails, it
will trigger an abort.

536
00:39:54,740 --> 00:39:58,091
All systems currently green.
SON: Okay, that's good.

537
00:40:03,270 --> 00:40:09,668
FEMALE: 10, 9. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3.
2, 1, 0.

538
00:40:09,711 --> 00:40:11,583
Ignition.

539
00:40:11,626 --> 00:40:13,454
RICKY: Liftoff. Liftoff.

540
00:40:13,498 --> 00:40:18,111
Go, go, go, go, go. Off the pad.

541
00:40:18,154 --> 00:40:24,422
[music]

542
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:40,742
UNIDENTIFIED: Oh my, my God.

543
00:40:40,786 --> 00:40:46,095
[music]

544
00:40:46,139 --> 00:40:47,880
Oh my God!

545
00:40:47,923 --> 00:40:54,103
[music]

546
00:40:54,147 --> 00:40:57,237
[applause][cheers]

547
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:58,891
MALE: Vehicle is supersonic.

548
00:40:58,934 --> 00:41:01,937
JOHN: You heard the call out.
Vehicle is supersonic.

549
00:41:01,981 --> 00:41:05,463
Side boosters are now throttling
back up to full power.

550
00:41:05,506 --> 00:41:07,334
MALE: Vehicle has reached
maximum dynamic pressure.

551
00:41:07,377 --> 00:41:10,642
JOHN: We passed max Q,
the period of maximum
loads on the vehicle.

552
00:41:12,513 --> 00:41:14,863
ELON: Oh my God,
guys, it took off.

553
00:41:16,952 --> 00:41:18,693
CHILD: All right, go, go, go!

554
00:41:18,737 --> 00:41:20,739
Go, go, go! Go, go, go!

555
00:41:20,782 --> 00:41:25,265
JOHN: Major event coming
up with side booster
shutdown and separation.

556
00:41:25,308 --> 00:41:27,920
MALE: Side boosters take off.

557
00:41:27,963 --> 00:41:34,492
[music][applause][cheers]

558
00:41:36,537 --> 00:41:38,670
JOHN: Successful separation!

559
00:41:39,018 --> 00:41:43,718
SPECTATOR: Yes! Oh my God!

560
00:41:43,762 --> 00:41:46,678
Whooo!

561
00:41:46,721 --> 00:41:47,592
ELON: That's unreal.

562
00:41:47,635 --> 00:41:52,553
[music]

563
00:41:52,597 --> 00:41:53,467
What?!

564
00:41:53,511 --> 00:41:57,819
[music]

565
00:41:57,863 --> 00:42:00,082
SPECTATOR: We love you!

566
00:42:00,126 --> 00:42:04,173
MALE: Central cores
are shut down.

567
00:42:04,217 --> 00:42:05,610
The separation confirmed.

568
00:42:05,653 --> 00:42:08,656
Separate core booster
start up behind.

569
00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:12,094
Separate core start
from this point forward.

570
00:42:12,138 --> 00:42:14,662
MICHAEL: On your screen
at the moment, you've got
a few things happening.

571
00:42:14,706 --> 00:42:19,449
On the upper right, you've got
MVAC-D continuing its burn,
and on the two bottom screens,

572
00:42:19,493 --> 00:42:23,584
you've got the side boosters
headed back towards Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station,

573
00:42:23,628 --> 00:42:25,630
landing zones one and two.

574
00:42:25,673 --> 00:42:28,850
MALE: Both side
boosters transonic.

575
00:42:28,894 --> 00:42:34,029
[music] cheers]

576
00:42:34,073 --> 00:42:35,770
ELON: Yes, light. Light.

577
00:42:35,814 --> 00:42:42,777
[music][applause][cheers]

578
00:42:44,126 --> 00:42:46,999
[inaudible] coming soon,

579
00:42:47,042 --> 00:42:50,176
[music][screams cheers]

580
00:42:50,219 --> 00:42:53,440
[laughs]

581
00:42:53,483 --> 00:42:54,963
See? [inaudible]

582
00:42:55,007 --> 00:42:56,138
boom!

583
00:42:56,182 --> 00:43:02,841
[music]

584
00:43:05,626 --> 00:43:07,976
MALE: Side boosters landing
legs have deployed.

585
00:43:08,020 --> 00:43:14,635
[music][applause][cheers]

586
00:43:16,681 --> 00:43:19,901
MALE: LZ1 to LZ2, both side
boosters are touchdown.

587
00:43:19,945 --> 00:43:23,949
Landing operators move on to
recovery one and recovery two.

588
00:43:23,992 --> 00:43:26,168
MALE: Stage two,
ASTS has saved.

589
00:43:26,212 --> 00:43:31,391
[applause]

590
00:43:31,434 --> 00:43:33,306
ELON: I don't see any
fire plumes over there.

591
00:43:33,349 --> 00:43:38,790
[music][applause]
[screams cheers]

592
00:43:38,833 --> 00:43:42,489
[music]

593
00:43:42,532 --> 00:43:45,492
That's the, the booster's
already over Africa.

594
00:43:45,535 --> 00:43:49,104
It's going to be over
Nigeria right now. Yeah.

595
00:43:49,148 --> 00:43:51,411
Stage two position.

596
00:43:51,454 --> 00:43:53,674
That's the ground track.

597
00:43:53,718 --> 00:43:55,458
It's fast!

598
00:43:55,502 --> 00:43:58,723
New ways of traveling, guys.

599
00:43:58,766 --> 00:44:02,204
Hugs, congrats.

600
00:44:02,248 --> 00:44:09,255
[music]

601
00:44:20,527 --> 00:44:23,182
RICKY: Congrats, Charlie.

602
00:44:23,225 --> 00:44:25,097
Holy cow! Look at that!

603
00:44:25,140 --> 00:44:26,228
EMPLOYEE: Dude, that is awesome.

604
00:44:26,272 --> 00:44:31,712
[music]

605
00:44:31,756 --> 00:44:34,410
ELON: Guys, do you see this?
Look at the car in space.

606
00:44:34,454 --> 00:44:39,198
You guys have been in the car.
I've driven you in that car.

607
00:44:39,241 --> 00:44:40,852
[laughs]

608
00:44:40,895 --> 00:44:42,288
This is so trippy.

609
00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:50,209
We want to demonstrate that
Falcon Heavy is capable of
getting to Mars orbit.

610
00:44:50,252 --> 00:44:52,385
-Yeah!!

611
00:44:52,428 --> 00:44:56,824
If it's, like, out there
floating for millions or maybe
a billion years, and then,

612
00:44:56,868 --> 00:45:01,133
you know, maybe long
after human civilization
is maybe gone, maybe some,

613
00:45:01,176 --> 00:45:04,136
some future ancient
civilization will come
around and find it and say,

614
00:45:04,179 --> 00:45:07,748
"Hey, this is cool. I wonder
what those guys were up to."

615
00:45:07,792 --> 00:45:14,146
[music]

616
00:45:15,147 --> 00:45:16,322
Awesome.

617
00:45:16,365 --> 00:45:17,323
[music]

618
00:45:17,366 --> 00:45:21,719
[laughs][cheers]

619
00:45:21,762 --> 00:45:27,333
It's, it's one of those things
that's a reason to live.

620
00:45:27,376 --> 00:45:31,380
Life cannot just be about
solving one miserable
problem after another.

621
00:45:31,424 --> 00:45:36,516
There have to be reasons that,
where you wake up in the
morning and you look forward

622
00:45:36,559 --> 00:45:40,085
to being alive and you're
excited about the future.

623
00:45:40,128 --> 00:45:42,000
-...smile.

624
00:45:42,043 --> 00:45:45,917
That's, I think, what Mars
represents most to me.

625
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,615
It's seeing what the
universe is all about.

626
00:45:49,137 --> 00:45:56,144
[music]

627
00:46:13,031 --> 00:46:17,992
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