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SpaceX team chanting: "USA! USA! USA! USA!" 🇺🇸🚀

Congrats and a huge thank you to the SpaceX team that always delivers. This was an incredible first flight of a brand new vehicle. Our collective future flying amongst the stars has become so much closer.

It was a very good day spacex.com/launches/stars…

why else are we here if not to live with unreasonable passion for things

SpaceX has just launched and deployed ~45 tons to space. This was one of the heaviest payloads since Polyus launched by Energia in 1987 and Skylab launched by Saturn V in 1973!

Today SpaceX launched ~45tons of Starlink mass simulators on Starship Flight 12, the highest payload tonnage to space since Saturn V's Skylab (77t) in 1973. This is a huge milestone for spaceflight and cannot be ignored, the future of space and this program is so bright!!

NEVER GIVE UP

The Starship V3 heat shield held well

Jason Calacanis on SpaceX's Unknown Origin Story: Elon Wanted to Back Up the Biosphere in Space! @Jason: “Most people don't remember this, but when @elonmusk was starting SpaceX, the original idea when he was running around with Adeo and they were looking at some rockets and getting carriage from Russian rockets was to back up the biosphere.” “And he came back from that trip and I remember talking to him about it and he said, ‘I think I just have to make my own rockets because that's actually where the problem is, and it would be easier just to make my own rocket to back up the biosphere.’ And he wanted to put geo-domes, like geodesic domes in space, with all the plants, wildlife, and creatures. What incredible vision. And then there was the necessity of actually getting that up into space, and that's the unknown origin story.”

Photos of @elonmusk and @rookisaacman at Starbase Mission Control during yesterday’s Starship flight 🔥

Boring Company’s goal is to solve traffic in cities and one day build Hyperloop high-speed transit between city centers

@Erdayastronaut Is there one photo that doesn't go hard? 🤯

Real-time video of Starship from Starlink

My favorite photo from yesterday: A powerful sight as the latest iteration of Starship climbs through Texan skies. Captured via a sound-triggered camera, this camera captured the chaotic scene far better than I could from a safe distance. Prints available in the reply.

Starlink enabled 4K live streaming from liftoff to splashdown during Starship’s 12th test flight 🛰️🚀

BREAKING: Elon Musk hires Nicki Minaj as Chief Gyatt Officer at SpaceX

Starship’s Super Heavy booster produces roughly the same thrust as ~80 Boeing 747s all firing at once The scale of that power is almost incomprehensible Its Raptor 3 engines are true marvels of engineering - each one generating an insane ~280 metric tons of thrust while operating at chamber pressures approaching ~350 bar, making them the most advanced rocket engines ever built

British police are hiding Henry Nowak’s final Snapchat and police bodycam footage. 18-year-old Henry Nowak was stabbed to death in Southampton. His Snapchat videos captured the attacker carrying a 21cm blade and saying “I am a bad man” – shown in court. Bodycam footage captured the dying teen handcuffed by police, pleading “I’ve been stabbed,” “I’m dying,” “I can’t breathe.” He collapsed and bled out in cuffs. Yet the full raw footage remains withheld from the public despite outrage and petitions. Why hide a victim’s final moments if there is nothing to hide? Release the Snapchat and bodycam footage now. Justice for Henry demands transparency.

I set 7 cameras near the pad for starship’s 12th test flight. In a first for me, all 7 got INCREDIBLE photos. Here’s a little peak at one… but there are a lot more. I’ll post some of my favorites tomorrow, and release at least one in print.