Is This The Craziest Space Weekend In History?

why are rockets painted white? does it makes sense to paint them non-white so that we can see the condition of them as they launch or are we more concerned about them being seen in space? To my point of view all rockets would be seen on radar, so I don't see how non-white is an issue. is there really any reason they cant be black, yellow, red or even green?

Don't worry about the moon mission. Boeing is building the American booster, so everything is fine. LOL Plus, it's only like 5 years between launches.

I can't freakin' wait to see how this attempt goes!

China will get to the moon before the US. Mark this comment!! The way the Chinese government works, the way they are chasing space superiority, the way they are throwing money at their space programme, NASA is hopeless to win this 'race.'

No

Getting to moon with FAA... good luck with that. 🤣

Scott the Scottish Skald, skilled in the art of alliteration

I bet the Blue Origin folks are annoyed because they'd probably rather be watching the SpaceX launch too 😂

A satelite in orbit that quickly can deliver a payload to anywhere under its orbit. I wonder what that is intended to test out...

What payloads could sit for years, be strategic in usage/ timing, and be able to accept massive costs... 🙄🫡👏

Nothing will surpass the moon landing, which I also watched. But this will be a solid second.

One day you’ll make a video that mentions Blue Origin without tossing in some snark.

Fly safe

as everything absorbs infrared/ambient heat -why infrared energy transfer and not higher energy frequencies

Thanksgiving, and TWO rocket launches? It's going to be a good day!

Oh god Scott please you can't read chinese regardless of their intonations... wrong tones make them totally unintelligible 😭

progress going soooo slow. overcomplicated chemical rockets, a fucking upside down umbrella, wow gee what a fantastic civilization

I'm incredibly impressed with the Chinese space programme. The frequency and reliability is well above what I expected. I had very high hopes for the Indian space programme and of course it is impressive when considered on its own, but in comparison with the rest of the world, it has become somewhat underwhelming. And what on earth are the Europeans doing? Are they even trying?

We'll see iff Blue Origin gets more views than Rings of Power.😅

Quite obvious by now, between New Shepard and the Amazon logo, Jeff was one of those kids that drew d pics on everything he came in contact with.

The pen!s won't win, even I'm not that gay. And I'm GAAAAAAY. 😂

It’s so frustrating that that 500 mill would most likely be paid out for fine to government agencies for 99% arbitrary infractions that don’t have a meaningful impact on anything 😒

Did he mention the Crew 8 undocking?

I am very excited! Also lovely new outro music, I am glad you kept it with the current outro

Its just like the ports of England, France, Netherlands Portugal, Italy, Spain etc would have been 740 years. Each reaching out to India, Malacca, Caribbean, Philippines etc.

It's interesting to see how many solid rockets the Chinese are suddenly launching. It's almost like they have some excess capacity as a result of their ICBM program, or something. Due to their low Isp, solids aren't what you would normally choose for satellite launch.

wild that falcon gets grounded but vulcan didn’t

Well, China is racing, NASA is stalling.

That Advertisement marker was set perfectly😂

Scott there is another launch this weekend at a Florida model rocket club it's a new 6 footer as the gap in performance between it and the BO rocket is about the same as as the performance gap between BO and starship you should cover that to.

Won't be watching on Twitter, that's for sure ... screw you Elon.

Hey Scott is that a Longshot burst disk behind you on the table?

Finally Europe !! gread news :)
Crazy weekend

Don't care about ching chong launches thanks.

I think its weird that Space X are experiencing so many second stage problems all of a sudden... the 1st stage problems can be explained by being reused so much.. but the two combined. I wonder if SpaceX has begun cutting corners? Or its complacensy because its getting "mundane" - kind of how complacensy caused the shuttle accidents.

Also man - China is really ramping up. If they did not have so low regards to where they drop their stages I would be more excited about it.

IR laser beamed to earth? I thought the global warming issue was IR not being able to escape the planet... seems counter productive to beam focuses IR light down to earth 😂

Its so annoying they launch Starship when i have to catch a ferry... I guess ill watch it a bit later right after it all has ended.

If your penis really looks like the new shepard, you better see a doctor. Please stop making this lame joke.

About: "... New Shepard looks a lot more like a peni..."
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More perfect to add placement could not be asked for 😂😂😂

Is that a blow out valve from Longshot?

lol the only thing new sheppard is good for is to watch starship launch :P

Perfect title, Scott. Lol. Yes. I'll be watching history in real time. Against that, I've no interest in Bezos' almost orbital phallic symbol. 🤣🤣🤣

New Shepard does looks a lot more like a penis, and that might be your thing. 💀

The Thai payload is a rice-growing experiment by the same team at Mahidol University that held a duckweed experiment at ESTEC in the Netherlands last year.

I believe that the Vulcan Centaur issue didn't cause it to exceed the limits of the mission profile and though some debris was dropped it was dropped in a designated hazard area that shipping had been told to keep out of. Basically ULA & SpaceX both had spongey brakes, ULA managed to stop at the red light but SpaceX couldn't and got citations for both (Second stage) incidents (Because they dropped debris in areas that hadn't been cleared or had any kind of warning)