Keep going, SpaceX, do NOT stop now! Keep building rockets, keep putting them in space. Fly space crews to the ISS or wherever they need to be. If NASA can't do the job of getting people into orbit, then YOU do that job and do it well. God Bless, and good luck!
I got a good chuckle when the camera pans away at 32:40 to reveal them essentially livecasting from the middle of the factory amidsts other random pieces of equipments and crates.
The launch that changed the course of human history. Allowing SpaceX to continue developing the technology necessary to make humans a multi-planet species.
I've be watching SpaceX since 2015 - I really wish I was watching from this time, there progression I've watched from block 4 to 5 Falcon then into the starship program I'm so excited to continue to watch them make the future reality.
26:16 holy shit they're nervous. You can just imagine the thoughts and emotions going through their heads right then. Also, as successful as the launch was, this live broadcast was a freaking world-class trainwreck. SpaceX's live stream expertise has advanced at least as much as their rocket expertise since then.
don't forget this was 2008, I don't remember since I was 11 then but I think live webcasts were a novelty back then. Plus I doubt more than a few thousand people were watching, so no need for a fancy TV show.
So badass watching these old videos knowing what the company is achieving today and planning for the future. Falcon 9 is a work horse, launching with ease, landing at landing pad or drone ship, and then doing it all again. BFR refined concept and on the way, already going to replace the yet-to-be launched FH... Love it.
Starship has flown, hopefully making it to orbit on the next few flights like they did with the vehicle in the video above! I cant even imagine what the future of Starship will be. If it even matches Falcon 9's pace and cost with such a big rocket it will be monumental!
I love that this dude launches a tiny rocket to orbit after 3 failures and is totally confident he will send people to mars, then look where we are now, id say were closer to mars than we are far from this flight, and thats so awesome, I was 8 when I watched this launch, I'm 18 now and can't believe how far SpaceX has come. Cheers to the future
I came here after reading "Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX" by Eric Berger. SpaceX will be the first company to put humans on Mars!
I've had an honor to be a part of a team developing space/rocket technology. And I must say, once you make something really new and important (and succeed) you will fear no more about difficult things or challenges getting ahead of you. This is the best way to create starting point for something entirely new (and positive) developments in nation's/human history. Space-X is a great company, just like Tesla Motors and many others! Make high tech, not war!
This was just ten years ago... And now we see Falcon Heavy with multiple boosters coming back for simultaneous landing. Just imagine where they might be in another ten years.
Just learned something new this rocket almost blow up on a c17 military aircraft but a hero engineer climbed into the rocket and fixed the problem saved everyones life. Spacex is without a doubt a miracle in amercia history.
Imagine being with this tiny company that almost didn't make it, and then suddenly being told by your boss you are taking over for the space shuttle. I bet there wasn't a single sober person on Kwajalein later that night.
This is a big step for the human race. In the moment it is still not necessary, but with every new day it becomes more and more necessary! UNBELIEVABLE !
This was a test of the Falcon 1 vehicle. This was flight 4 and the first one to reach orbit. There was no real payload, but now we know they can make payload delivery once that time comes. Flight 5 is just around the corner. SpaceX is developing the least expensive space payload delivery system the planet has thusfar seen. They will change everything.
Elon Musk took his kids to Disneyland and rode on Space Mountain just prior to this launch (from Eric Berger's Liftoff). Now if he has any important launches, he'll go to Disneyland for good luck.
It is impressive, but they did a lot of early work with even smaller crew: From an October 2003 article: "SpaceX is about 30 people and what we do internally in SpaceX is we do all of the design analysis, integration of hardware, testing and then launch operations. But a lot of the heavy manpower stuff like welding together our primary structure, the heavy machining and so forth that we outsource, so we'd be a much larger company if we did all that internally." From a November 2005 article: "SpaceX right now has about 160 employees, including about 40 working on propulsion, 30 on avionics, 30 on structures, and 50 in manufacturing. Musk said he that while he would like to slow down the rate of growth the company has experienced since its inception over three years ago, he envisions that SpaceX could grow as large as 400-500 people, but no larger. “Companies do change once they grow beyond a certain level,” he said. “Once everyone doesn’t know everyone, the company becomes slightly different.”"
In hindsight, and despite knowing where we are now, it still makes me nervous (even moreso today) how close SpaceX was to failing and not having a chance to display their innovation, and subsequent shakeup of the launch industry in the following years... This mission may have changed the way spaceflight is approached completely, in the long run. And given the human species an actual, realistic future in our solar system. That combined with the first NASA contract(s), which came in just in time.
Excellent job SpaceX! You are definitely inspiring all of us including our young children who have also been following your achievements and much anticipated success! Congratulations from all of us!
+AndroZeus Me too! With laughter. "Space" travel is not possible. This is self evident @ 21:52 in this video. That is the point where the camera trickery happens. There are NO unedited continuous shots of a rocket taking off and entering supposed "orbit." None. This video is the closest i have seen. It failed. I will sent you £1000 if you can prove me wrong.
Quick question, considering you can see the ISS with binoculars, and with a very modest telescope you can see the entire station including when capsules such as dragon dock, and that there are numerous sites that will tell you exactly where and when you need to look to see it... how do you explain that? Or have you never looked at it? Take your thousand pounds and invest in a telescope, then you can believe your own eyes.
am0767 is right. The engines (as well as pretty much all their hardware) are built in Hawthorne, California and are then shipped to McGregor, Texas for qualification firings.
Lol. That's actually standard practice for other launcher companies as well if you've ever watched a launch broadcast - giving overviews of the vehicle, flight timeline and payload carried onboard.
Aaaaand Virgin Orbit still didn’t complete a single operational flight with Spaceship 1/2, althought Virgin Orbit did become the third private company to reach orbit. Rocket Lab was the second’ wich is suprising! And in this same year, Astra could become the fourth!
I think this launch alone saved commercial space (and some time in the future we will look back on this as the main inflection point for interplanetary travel)
Elon is so overcome, he's speechless with the success of this rocket on it's fourth launch. Now we know this was make or break financially as well as with credibility for potential customers and NASA investment.- Go Elon, Go Spacex
ok i guess that counts. So Pegasus was the first air launched, and CSXT was the first ground launched. However CSXT did not orbit a full rotation of the earth. It went up, and it came back down just a few miles away. It looks as if this project here made a full orbit or more around earth, thus making it the first privately developed vehicle to make 1 or more full rotations within Earths orbit.
SpaceVidcast recently became a TH-cam Partner channel. Original content, lots of views, all that stuff :) As such we can upload longer videos, which is great for things like launches. Takes us longer to get it online, but I think it is worth the wait.
We have 2020 year, May, 27 day of this month and ... and wait for first crew flight on spacecraft from SpaceX Company. Great job since 18 years 2002 year - an adult company SpaceX may be celebrate this day today :)
a launch that changed the course of spaceflight in the 21st century. I keep revisting these falcon-1 launches ocassionally, after seeing the umpteeth falcon 9 launch and landing. edit: not to mention starship...
Incredible watching this in June 2021, as Starship is preparing for its first orbital flight. Thank you Eric Berger for documenting all of this. Another 12 years and where will we be? I'm excited to find out
Saturn V, which could launch 260,000 pounds (120,000 kg) to LEO, also uses RP-1/LOX. Soyuz also uses RP-1/LOX, no fatality so far. Liquid hydrogen has a lot of problems. Because of low density, it requires a lot bigger fuel tank, which increases mass. Also safety issues for manned missions.
Seriously? These people privately developed a rocket that launched a payload into ORBIT and all you got out of this is that there's an incorrectly grounded audio source and some feedback?
Remember Falcon 1. 4 flights to make orbit with something they hadnt done before. Starship is an order of magnitude harder to make work, but they've gone up an order of magnitude in experience. If they make orbit within flight 4 with Starship, that will be an impressive feat. I can't imagine what Starship will be like when operational, even matching Falcon 9 in cost and speed would be an achievement on its own!
Beautiful launch, awesome achievement by the then-fledgling company. Nice to see (or hear) that they let the employees watch and cheer it on even then. That really makes the company much more human to us outsiders.
This launch saved the company.
Le-Cheng Xu Actually, their winning of the NASA contract did.
Le-Cheng Xu Both :P
Le-Cheng Xu yea he said they scraped together barely enough money for another launch, which succeeded. Tesla had some close calls too.
+Le-Cheng Xu One day it may turn out that this launch saved the human race.
This was the launch that won them that contract!
Someday we may look back on this launch and say that, because of its success, SpaceX were able to get humans on Mars in the mid 2020s.
Commenting for the future.
Hello everyone watching after people have landed on Mars!
Even now it's great to look back at his predictions for SpaceX becoming the leading launch service provider in the world coming true.
yes
2022/24
not on mars but on the iss maybe 2026 will be there
This is the biggest butterfly effect for the future
Keep going, SpaceX, do NOT stop now! Keep building rockets, keep putting them in space. Fly space crews to the ISS or wherever they need to be. If NASA can't do the job of getting people into orbit, then YOU do that job and do it well. God Bless, and good luck!
This comment has aged well
What can happen in only 9 years is insane
And you predicted the future. Nice!
Am happy to say they've been very successful over the years
Yes am from the future lol dragon crew 1 just docked to the iss
I got a good chuckle when the camera pans away at 32:40 to reveal them essentially livecasting from the middle of the factory amidsts other random pieces of equipments and crates.
To think they were just weeks away from bankruptcy after this.
The launch that changed the course of human history.
Allowing SpaceX to continue developing the technology necessary to make humans a multi-planet species.
Now we got fuckin cars in space.
It certainly moved things forward. Im sure Elon would have restarted spacex after tesla success in the event launch 4 didnt succeed.
@@tmgreen9832 Now SpaceX has sucessfully sent humans in space 2 times already, and many more to come
Non-technical question: Elon manages to say about 3 words.
Technical question: Elon is suddenly able to talk for hours without any problems.
+Petr Melechin knows his shit.
+Hando Tõnumaa No.
+Hando Tõnumaa Actually convinced of that, or are you just a provocateur.
Are you really that thick?
no such thing as manage to sx or not or tech or non techx, say/can say anyx nmw and it can all be perfx, idtnerx
I've be watching SpaceX since 2015 - I really wish I was watching from this time, there progression I've watched from block 4 to 5 Falcon then into the starship program I'm so excited to continue to watch them make the future reality.
Who's here after reading Eric Berger's Liftoff book?
(pretty scary in a way, seeing this being recommended by the Google algos)
33:48 "this is just the first step of many" how right he was, today, after almost 10 years, the falcon heavy successfully had its first flight
They just completed human spaceflight up and back
Crew 1 have arrived at space station now
Starship sn8 made it's first test flight
sn 10 says hello :D
@Shourya Bose maybe today :D
And today they're cheering about Starship...❤✌🏻
Who's watching this 10 years later?
14 yrs later
I love the little companies and organisations who seem to get things done. Makes me wish i was involved somehow.
rudeydudey05 not little anymore
Crew 1 was launched spacex is a true amercian success story 👏
And right now, they are out performing even NASA in terms of launch and is owned by the world's richest man
@@methalox4283 Um, Elon isn’t the richest man on earth?
26:16 holy shit they're nervous. You can just imagine the thoughts and emotions going through their heads right then.
Also, as successful as the launch was, this live broadcast was a freaking world-class trainwreck. SpaceX's live stream expertise has advanced at least as much as their rocket expertise since then.
don't forget this was 2008, I don't remember since I was 11 then but I think live webcasts were a novelty back then. Plus I doubt more than a few thousand people were watching, so no need for a fancy TV show.
They remind me of the Unha-1 rocket engineers, Kim Jon-Un would execute one of them randomly for every subsystem failure.
So badass watching these old videos knowing what the company is achieving today and planning for the future. Falcon 9 is a work horse, launching with ease, landing at landing pad or drone ship, and then doing it all again. BFR refined concept and on the way, already going to replace the yet-to-be launched FH... Love it.
Here in 2020, development of Starship moving at breakneck speed, and you almost can’t fathom how quickly it’s all coming together.
Starship has flown, hopefully making it to orbit on the next few flights like they did with the vehicle in the video above!
I cant even imagine what the future of Starship will be. If it even matches Falcon 9's pace and cost with such a big rocket it will be monumental!
I feel very sorry for the multiverse where this flight also failed and SpaceX went under. It's good to be the King.
Who's here after they just caught the booster
This launch will go in history as the single most important event in history of human becoming interplanetary species....
God Speed
Shut up flat earther
I love that this dude launches a tiny rocket to orbit after 3 failures and is totally confident he will send people to mars, then look where we are now, id say were closer to mars than we are far from this flight, and thats so awesome, I was 8 when I watched this launch, I'm 18 now and can't believe how far SpaceX has come. Cheers to the future
It's 2023. From this to starship era now
and now starship reached orbit...
I came here after reading "Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX" by Eric Berger. SpaceX will be the first company to put humans on Mars!
I've had an honor to be a part of a team developing space/rocket technology. And I must say, once you make something really new and important (and succeed) you will fear no more about difficult things or challenges getting ahead of you.
This is the best way to create starting point for something entirely new (and positive) developments in nation's/human history. Space-X is a great company, just like Tesla Motors and many others!
Make high tech, not war!
The most important day in the history of SpaceX
This was just ten years ago... And now we see Falcon Heavy with multiple boosters coming back for simultaneous landing. Just imagine where they might be in another ten years.
Lucas Silva Don't forget that, the sun is closer to the earth than a cloud :p
This was 4 years ago...now we see starship belly flop and land,waiting for someone to reply me in the future of starship orbital test flight.
@@arthurlunar7835 it just blew up 2024 will be it.
@@QuickWitQ i don't think 2024, i think this year yet, because spacex already have some ships and super heavys done like Booster 10 and 9, ship 25,
@@QuickWitQ so we can say booster 7 is a old super heavy version because booster 9 had some changes
very proud to say "i work there!!
am0767 update? Lol
Stil work there?
@@danutzzz2064 Fired
Just learned something new this rocket almost blow up on a c17 military aircraft but a hero engineer climbed into the rocket and fixed the problem saved everyones life. Spacex is without a doubt a miracle in amercia history.
Not blow up, collapsed inwards
Imagine being with this tiny company that almost didn't make it, and then suddenly being told by your boss you are taking over for the space shuttle. I bet there wasn't a single sober person on Kwajalein later that night.
I can imagine. It was unbelievable. The man is a God send to humanity…
believe me this video will have more than 10 millions views in the next 10 years! You can compare it with the first iPhone Keynote!!
This is a big step for the human race. In the moment it is still not necessary, but with every new day it becomes more and more necessary! UNBELIEVABLE !
Gives me chills to watch this in the shadows of their most recent successful test flight of the Falcon Heavy! SpaceX is a pioneer!!!!! Amazing
Falcon 1 had very sketchy stage separations.
Eric I know right? I love that knock off the engine nozzle - just giving it a quick integrity check before firing... >.>
@@iMeatbag lol thank god it was flexible enough!
12:22 "We are about 6 minutes from launch which means we are halfway through..." Already the guy sounds like he wants to go home XD
This is treasure, but someone's gotta filter out that 60Hz hum
Ugh that second stage smashing its engine bell on the interstage. It hurts to watch. You have come a long way SpaceX.
Its actually funny how uncomfortable the presentors were after orbit was reached 😅
This was a test of the Falcon 1 vehicle. This was flight 4 and the first one to reach orbit. There was no real payload, but now we know they can make payload delivery once that time comes. Flight 5 is just around the corner.
SpaceX is developing the least expensive space payload delivery system the planet has thusfar seen. They will change everything.
And this is the moment for Space X.The fourth flight saved everything and Elon Musk knows what he is exactly doing.Hopes on you.
Watching this after Crew dragon launch. Godspeed Space X
Just saw inspiration 4 touch down from the first successful civilian flight wow what a long way spacex has come.
Elon Musk took his kids to Disneyland and rode on Space Mountain just prior to this launch (from Eric Berger's Liftoff). Now if he has any important launches, he'll go to Disneyland for good luck.
I got chills when the stage seperation went smoothly
Anyone in November 2021?
Elon has _really_ improved on his public speaking in 2021.
less than 600 employees and they made it to orbit. crazy
It is impressive, but they did a lot of early work with even smaller crew:
From an October 2003
article: "SpaceX is about 30 people and what we do internally in SpaceX is we do all of the design analysis, integration of hardware, testing and then launch operations. But a lot of the heavy manpower stuff like welding together our primary structure, the heavy machining and so forth that we outsource, so we'd be a much larger company if we did all that internally."
From a November 2005 article: "SpaceX right now has about 160 employees, including about 40 working on propulsion, 30 on avionics, 30 on structures, and 50 in manufacturing. Musk said he that while he would like to slow down the rate of growth the company has experienced since its inception over three years ago, he envisions that SpaceX could grow as large as 400-500 people, but no larger. “Companies do change once they grow beyond a certain level,” he said. “Once everyone doesn’t know everyone, the company becomes slightly different.”"
this is 12 years ago -- you are one of the very best --
Thank goodness he was wearing his lucky shirt
Who's here after Lift Off book
In hindsight, and despite knowing where we are now, it still makes me nervous (even moreso today) how close SpaceX was to failing and not having a chance to display their innovation, and subsequent shakeup of the launch industry in the following years...
This mission may have changed the way spaceflight is approached completely, in the long run. And given the human species an actual, realistic future in our solar system. That combined with the first NASA contract(s), which came in just in time.
SpaceX was so scalping the bucket, they could only afford one camera in the headquarter.
Excellent job SpaceX! You are definitely inspiring all of us including our young children who have also been following your achievements and much anticipated success! Congratulations from all of us!
Well then, 13 years later and spaceX have taken over the industry! Godspeed spaceX!
Narrator: “the engine burns for 420s”
Me: “nice”
So youtube recommends this to me 12 years later..?? Fuckin love it
Sstarship just made its first successful landing spacex has a very good future ahead.
I cried. :)
+AndroZeus
Me too! With laughter. "Space" travel is not possible. This is self evident @ 21:52 in this video. That is the point where the camera trickery happens. There are NO unedited continuous shots of a rocket taking off and entering supposed "orbit." None. This video is the closest i have seen. It failed. I will sent you £1000 if you can prove me wrong.
Electric Earth oh my god i feel sorry for you
AndroZeus
Don't cry for meeee Argentiiiina.
+Electric Earth
Fascinating, captain.
Quick question, considering you can see the ISS with binoculars, and with a very modest telescope you can see the entire station including when capsules such as dragon dock, and that there are numerous sites that will tell you exactly where and when you need to look to see it... how do you explain that? Or have you never looked at it? Take your thousand pounds and invest in a telescope, then you can believe your own eyes.
I just watched this after coming from the Elon Musk biography on Audible. Brought tears to my eyes. Inspirational!
It's weird to see a SpaceX launch without a first stage landing.
Who's here after reading Elon's biography in 2023?
And this week, Flight 4 of Starship met with the same level of success ❤❤❤
This is their most underrated launch, relatively speaking.
am0767 is right. The engines (as well as pretty much all their hardware) are built in Hawthorne, California and are then shipped to McGregor, Texas for qualification firings.
Lol. That's actually standard practice for other launcher companies as well if you've ever watched a launch broadcast - giving overviews of the vehicle, flight timeline and payload carried onboard.
Combine this with Virgin Galactic... I think we're about to see a whole new variation of the space industry unfold before our eyes! Great stuff!
Well, you were right. Falcon Heavy launch today !!
Still waiting on Virgin though...
Aaaaand Virgin Orbit still didn’t complete a single operational flight with Spaceship 1/2, althought Virgin Orbit did become the third private company to reach orbit. Rocket Lab was the second’ wich is suprising! And in this same year, Astra could become the fourth!
Like wine.
37:12 Look, people used to shake hands in the past.
And now they just got a contract with NASA to bring back humans on the moon after flying to crew dragons team to the ISS. Mind blowing
Ayooo man why is it in my recomendations in 2023
Fate liked us that way.
This is legendary.
Why does the video look and the narrator sound like some 1990s video?
There was no more money lol...100 million spent and the last 40 million from Elons personal accounts were used in this launch
I think this launch alone saved commercial space (and some time in the future we will look back on this as the main inflection point for interplanetary travel)
Elon is so overcome, he's speechless with the success of this rocket on it's fourth launch.
Now we know this was make or break financially as well as with credibility for potential customers and NASA investment.- Go Elon, Go Spacex
Meanwhile, in 2021, there are still people saying that SpaceX "will fail", as though they hadn't already made history, and thus succeeded, in 2008.
We just launched inspiration 4 all civilian crew that's always been there goal from day one besides going to mars. wow what a long way they've come.
ok i guess that counts. So Pegasus was the first air launched, and CSXT was the first ground launched. However CSXT did not orbit a full rotation of the earth. It went up, and it came back down just a few miles away. It looks as if this project here made a full orbit or more around earth, thus making it the first privately developed vehicle to make 1 or more full rotations within Earths orbit.
Incredible video. Space X has come a long way. I can't wait to see the future of space exploration. Thank you SpaceX
SpaceVidcast recently became a TH-cam Partner channel. Original content, lots of views, all that stuff :) As such we can upload longer videos, which is great for things like launches. Takes us longer to get it online, but I think it is worth the wait.
“First step of many” STARSHIP fly me to mars 2026 🚀 ❤️
We have 2020 year, May, 27 day of this month and ... and wait for first crew flight on spacecraft from SpaceX Company. Great job since 18 years 2002 year - an adult company SpaceX may be celebrate this day today :)
a launch that changed the course of spaceflight in the 21st century.
I keep revisting these falcon-1 launches ocassionally, after seeing the umpteeth falcon 9 launch and landing.
edit: not to mention starship...
Their videos have a much higher production quality now 😂
It was just about testing the Falcon 1 launcher (rocket), which is the first privately owned orbital launch system now.
Imagine going from Falcon 1 to Starship in just 15 years...
Video looks like it was shot in the 80s! lol. Congrats to SpaceX team for this achievement.
Wow! Nice stage separation! Way better than last one!
But seriously, this stuff kicks ass. SpaceX owns.
Incredible watching this in June 2021, as Starship is preparing for its first orbital flight. Thank you Eric Berger for documenting all of this.
Another 12 years and where will we be? I'm excited to find out
I never thought a rocket launch could make me emotional.
Watching in 2020. Never give up!!!
I never knew I was 8 years old when they have a successful launch.
This is great for SpaceX, its great that they have come this far.
Congratulations to CEO of SPACEX for your successful launched of Falcon 1🎉
Saturn V, which could launch 260,000 pounds (120,000 kg) to LEO, also uses RP-1/LOX. Soyuz also uses RP-1/LOX, no fatality so far.
Liquid hydrogen has a lot of problems. Because of low density, it requires a lot bigger fuel tank, which increases mass. Also safety issues for manned missions.
Seriously? These people privately developed a rocket that launched a payload into ORBIT and all you got out of this is that there's an incorrectly grounded audio source and some feedback?
Remember Falcon 1. 4 flights to make orbit with something they hadnt done before. Starship is an order of magnitude harder to make work, but they've gone up an order of magnitude in experience. If they make orbit within flight 4 with Starship, that will be an impressive feat. I can't imagine what Starship will be like when operational, even matching Falcon 9 in cost and speed would be an achievement on its own!
Whose here in 2022. It’s crazy how far this company went.
They just launched crew 1 shows how much they've proved most people wrong
Beautiful launch, awesome achievement by the then-fledgling company.
Nice to see (or hear) that they let the employees watch and cheer it on even then. That really makes the company much more human to us outsiders.
falcon 1 to a roadster in space
in 10 years
Wow. Hello from South Africa.
Who else is here after reading the book?