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163[Ad-Free] SpaceX Starship SN15 Launch Analysis – A huge step towards orbital flights!

🕑 Added 2021-05-07 15:52:56 +0000 UTC

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Gerard Hammond

thank for the ad-free version. I always watch the patreon version

Battlestar Galactica is one of my favourite series, long live the Adama Manoeuvre 👍 Great episode, I see Starman was hitching a ride on a raptor 🤣

It's important because humans need to explore and Earth has already been explored.

BSG reference. Outstanding!

Felix, you mentioned the GSE fuel tank jacket vessels which will provide insulation for the cold LOX and LNG. Actually the space between the tank and the jackets will be filled with fine perlite cryogenic insulation. A small nitrogen purge through the perlite will keep moisture out which would freeze up. Here is a link to a perlite supplier. http://gulfperlite.com/perlite-cryogenic-insulation/

The Adama Maneuver! Love it.

Felix - Great respects to you for your excellent reporting. In answer to your question about the implications of SpaceX's ambitious program, I want to refer to the period of the 1960's, during the Space Race. I was a kid then, and I can assure you that that race was super-motivational for young people. I even remember a "Man from NASA" coming to my school, and demonstrating the difference between igniting a cigar, held in a squirrel cage - and another one, which he'd dipped in LOX. The latter was - amazingly powerful! So, the enthusiasm that young people will have for this adventure - will motivate legions of space-dreamers, who will go into STEM curriculums.

So happy to follow your broadcasts.