Multi angle replay (5x speed) from the @nasaspaceflight.com cameras of yesterday's first complete deluge test at Launch Pad B at Starbase.
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Watching chunks of concrete get hurled in every direction during IFT-1 was insane. That whole flight was. Engines cutting out. FTS not taking it out. Spinning out of control.
This looks legit. I’ll remember the showerhead era fondly, but sometimes the graybeards are right.
The wildest era was definitely “maybe we can fire directly onto the concrete”.
They could. And they did. Once.
Using a rocket as an excavator 🌌🧠
Watching chunks of concrete get hurled in every direction during IFT-1 was insane. That whole flight was. Engines cutting out. FTS not taking it out. Spinning out of control.