SpaceX Launches to Mars

The Falcon Heavy rocket from SpaceX launched on Tuesday. That means that a private company is now the organization in the world most capable of taking large payloads into space; not NASA, not the Russians, European Space Agency, China, Japan nor India: SpaceX.

If the drama was hard to appreciate, consider this for context:

(2nd source for 2nd video: How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster)

A guide to the first video:

Falcon Heavy Launch events

30sec: montage

- 1.5 min: overview

- 3.2: tech overview 27 engines, 5 M pounds thrust

- 4.1: flight overview

- 6.2: play-by-play – current activities

- 8.2: history

- 10: min today's goals – land boosters

- 10.5: activities

- 14.2: Starman description

- 15.2: orbit description

- 17.2: flight description

- 20.5: launch sequence (silence) launch at 22 min

- 22.2: acceleration phase – 23 min supersonic

- 24.5: fairing opens to the sound of “Life on Mars”, one of Bowie's quirky meditations on the space era.

28.4- 30.1: booster landings

no video of center core landing – rumor that it crashed into drone at 300 kph