SpaceX Starship Orbital Flight Test

SpaceX has released this official two minute recap video of the flight test.

There’s nothing of the ship in flight we haven’t seen before, but there are some interesting shots from inside mission control, including at 0:47 just after liftoff where you can see the vibration and low frequency sound from the booster causing the windows behind the flight control room to vibrate in and out. This is the same phenomenon that so impressed Walter Cronkite covering the first launch of the Saturn V (Apollo 4) on 1969-11-09.

I watched this live on television as it happened.

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