Go up SpaceX's Starship-catching robotic launch tower with Elon Musk! — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hi, it's me, Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut. Welcome to Starbase, Texas.
2. 0:04Today, I'm gonna be taking you up SpaceX's launch tower,
3. 0:06otherwise known as stage zero, with Elon Musk.
4. 0:09We'll get the ultimate view of Starbase and learn more about just how exactly
5. 0:13SpaceX plans to catch the world's largest flying object with giant
6. 0:18robotic chopsticks.
7. 0:20This is part two of our spring 2022 Starbase Tour with Elon.
8. 0:24In the first part,
9. 0:25we got up close and personal with the high bay and Starship prototypes.
10. 0:29And in the next part,
11. 0:30we'll get really in depth with Raptor 2 and Merlin rocket engines.
12. 0:34So stay tuned. And if you happen to find this video valuable,
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15. 0:46your support. That being said, let's get up in there.
16. 1:03I feel like you always talk about, you know,
17. 1:04how you just wanna build an exciting future,
18. 1:07a world where people get excited about stuff, wake up and wanna do cool things.
19. 1:10And I gotta tell you standing right here, man. That's, that's
20. 1:17pretty hard to not get excited about this.
21. 1:21Yeah. I mean, this is pretty crazy. I mean,
22. 1:24there's a custom built tower with arms that' are designed to catch the
23. 1:30largest and heaviest flying object ever made and pluck it outta the
24. 1:35air. <laugh> I mean, that's the theory anyway, so.
25. 1:43Yeah,
26. 1:43I think it's funny people actually forget now that they're actually built to
27. 1:46lift and stack the rocket, that cranes have such bad wind capability,
28. 1:49but one time the booster legs were gonna weigh a lot, Elon just said, you know,
29. 1:53delete the legs, delete. We're like, well, what is he? Like? You just,
30. 1:56just use the arms and then say it again, and we were like, "Oh wow,
31. 1:59he's serious?" Okay. We better get on this. And now it seems normal.
32. 2:03Or we think at least seems plausible. Yeah.
33. 2:08I mean, it's still super crazy <laugh> but the more you talk about it...
34. 2:14At SpaceX we specialize in converting things from
35. 2:18impossible too late.
36. 2:21<Laugh>.
37. 2:24So, But it's pretty nutty because you're gonna have this gigantic,
38. 2:30you know, booster coming back.
39. 2:36I mean that's nine meters in diameter, not counting the chines,
40. 2:39or roughly 30 feet in diameter. It'll
41. 2:45weigh about
42. 2:48250 tons just a bit on the heavy side we'll make that lighter over time.
43. 2:54Weighs about 250 now, is that what you said?
44. 2:56<Laugh> This is way heavier than... I think we can get the...
45. 3:01Well there's there's the weight at different points.
46. 3:04So it's like say like weight when the landing tanks are full
47. 3:09versus weight when the landing tanks are empty is also
48. 3:14what, how much ullage mass do you have..
49. 3:17Dry, weight's kind of floating, you know, there's dry weight is yes.
50. 3:20Kind of irrelative when it's actually in the air.
51. 3:22Yeah. I mean there's several tons of air mass in the vehicle.
52. 3:25If you just say like what's the mass of one atmosphere in
53. 3:30that volume. It's several tons. Anyway,
54. 3:37but
55. 3:40I think we'll be able to get the mass well under 200 tons over time,
56. 3:44but still pretty heavy. So you gotta like, you know,
57. 3:47call it a couple hundred tons
58. 3:50plummeting at you know,
59. 3:56Let's see... well, I think our... the velocity at which we,
60. 4:01we start up the engines is more than half the speed of sound.
61. 4:04So this thing is still coming in really fast.
62. 4:09Pretty much down in a downward direction. So then we light, the engines like
63. 4:15I said, I think around Mach 0.5, give or take
64. 4:20but it's only, you know, several hundred meters in the air,
65. 4:24so it's gonna slow itself down very fast then,
66. 4:28and correct any error. So like wherever the,
67. 4:32whatever the X,Y error is when the engine's land it's gotta,
68. 4:36take out the X,Y error and
69. 4:40drop the last three of basically zero come in between the arms.
70. 4:46The arms will be wide and as it's coming in, the arms will,
71. 4:49will close go flush against the side of the vehicle and the vehicle will be
72. 4:53descending through the arms. Those tiny little,
73. 4:58you can barely see the little nubs,
74. 5:00those kind of lifting lugs will touch the top of the arms and
75. 5:06then it will hopefully not sheer off and crumple. Joe,
76. 5:11is there anything you wanna add that, I dunno if you caught that,
77. 5:13but I was just describing the landing sequence.
78. 5:16Yep. That was accurate. <laugh>.
79. 5:21We really hope it doesn't hit the tower.
80. 5:24Yeah, exactly. And especially not that launch ring,
81. 5:27which is really difficult to make that launch ring is very complicated.
82. 5:33We have not found a reason yet why it will not work.
83. 5:36Yes. Success is one of the possible outcomes. The probability is uncertain,
84. 5:41but the, it is above zero. So the part of the, you know,
85. 5:46like the arms are off to the side. So in theory,
86. 5:48the booster is gonna come back and then when the engines start up,
87. 5:52it'll translate over,
88. 5:54slow down and translate over and get in between the arms,
89. 6:00arms need to close and when they close,
90. 6:02they need to close in such a way that they don't crush the rocket as well.
91. 6:07Or score it all the way up the whole thing, just , <Tim noises>.
92. 6:11Yeah. There's a lot of ways for this to fail.
93. 6:13How quickly... Is it gonna close almost at the last second, like,
94. 6:18or will it be mostly closed and there's a small tolerance there and it skirts
95. 6:22the whole thing by, you know...
96. 6:23It's intended to close on the methane tanks of the smooth,
97. 6:26upper section about the top third of the rocket,
98. 6:29and then you can keep translating down. And,
99. 6:32and catch on those nubs that stick out the rocket.
100. 6:35Yeah. I mean, if things are going right,
101. 6:38it will actually look like the rocket is descending between the arms for quite a
102. 6:43while. You know, cuz you gotta...
103. 6:47The length of the thing is like basically around 70 meters.
104. 6:51So you know, if you've got a descent rate of,
105. 6:56I don't know, let's say two or three meters per second and you have,
106. 7:01you know, 20 meters or something like that. It's okay.
107. 7:05You're waiting for like 10 seconds. You know,
108. 7:08<laugh> So it'll actually be like actually this is taking a while <laugh>.
109. 7:13And now you gotta clear those chines too, you know,
110. 7:16you can't have it be so close down on the...
111. 7:18The chines will be clocked kind of away from the tower.
112. 7:21So they won't be increasing...
113. 7:23Oh, got it. The opposite way from the clamps. Got it. So as the, yeah,
114. 7:28that makes sense. That's cool.
115. 7:32But you still need to get the rocket has to still fit in between these arms.
116. 7:38So, you know, it's still gotta come in
117. 7:44and <laugh>...
118. 7:45It has to center up and the arms will slew in...
119. 7:47Yeah.
120. 7:48...To meet it wherever it is.
121. 7:49So if it's off to one side, it's gonna hit one of the arms,
122. 7:52which will be quite bad.
123. 7:54Yeah. <laugh>.
124. 7:56<Laugh> yeah.
125. 7:59<Laugh>.
126. 8:00Or cook the arm or, you know, a bunch of bad things can happen.
127. 8:04It's just insane though. I mean,
128. 8:06it looks big from far away,
129. 8:10but it looks even bigger when you're underneath it and you start to see almost
130. 8:14the atmospheric distortion and the hazE <laugh> make it fade into
131. 8:19the distance there.
132. 8:21Yeah. I'm told this is the tallest thing south of San Antonio.
133. 8:26Yeah. Because I think the other tallest was on South Padre.
134. 8:29They have the hotel was the other tallest thing in the whole area here, so.
135. 8:34And that's quite a bit taller.
136. 8:37Actually booster and rocket are almost identical.
137. 8:40At least the 120 meter version was like exactly the size of the Sapphire over
138. 8:44there. So people need to know what that feels like.
139. 8:47Just go up in the Sapphire and know that's how big this rocket is. <laugh>,
140. 8:52which is insane to think about.
141. 8:54Obviously you're not too worried about like the Human Landing System right now,
142. 8:59compared to just getting things into orbit.
143. 9:01But how is that has any of that stuff solidified yet?
144. 9:05Like any of the Human Landing System?
145. 9:09Uh, well, I mean, there's a lot of sort of design done on the computer level,
146. 9:14but and there's some hardware, but, and our focus is getting to orbit, you know,
147. 9:19if we can...
148. 9:20Because human landing won't work without getting to orbit obviously.
149. 9:22Yeah. We need Starship to get to orbit 'cause
150. 9:28it's the only thing that can carry the Starlink 2.0 satellites. So,
151. 9:31we've already produced the first, and we have on site,
152. 9:35the first Starlink 2.0 satellite and it's seven meters long and Falcon has
153. 9:41neither the volume nor the mass to orbit capability required for Starlink 2.0.
154. 9:46So even if we shrunk the Starlink 2.0 satellite down,
155. 9:48the total up mass of Falcon is not nearly enough to
156. 9:53do Starlink 2.0.
157. 9:54How heavy does one version 2.0 weigh?
158. 9:57Well it's, it's about one and a quarter tons.
159. 10:00There's so volumetrically huge that.
160. 10:03Um, but if you just say
161. 10:08like there's...
162. 10:09A lot of people talk a lot about how many launches per year there are to orbit,
163. 10:12but this is not really what matters.
164. 10:14I think what really matters is what's the total useful
165. 10:18payload to orbit per year. Cause otherwise you could say if this were
166. 10:24ocean ships, you'd be like comparing a dinghy to a super tanker and it's like,
167. 10:28they're not the same.
168. 10:35For a satellite constellation,
169. 10:36the thing that really matters is what is your total useful
170. 10:40max mass flux to orbit. You know, so mass, you know, mass to orbit.
171. 10:44So we need Starship to work and to fly frequently or
172. 10:50Starlink 2.0 will be stuck on the ground.
173. 10:53Wow. So that's your big motivator at this point is like get these things going.
174. 10:55I
175. 10:57assume because they're bigger will there have to be fewer of those to service
176. 11:01the same amount of like area? Like is it gonna be,
177. 11:04is version two gonna be in a higher orbit,
178. 11:06servicing more people like with per satellite or is it just bigger so it has
179. 11:10higher capacity, more bandwidth, more like all of that, I guess,
180. 11:14compared to version one?
181. 11:17Um,
182. 11:17the Starlink 2.0 satellites are almost an order of magnitude more capable than
183. 11:20Starlink 1.0.
184. 11:21Bandwidth wise or total like throughput.
185. 11:23I just think of it like how
186. 11:26many useful bits of data can each satellite do Starlink 2.0
187. 11:32in terms of useful
188. 11:36bits of data is almost an order of magnitude,
189. 11:41better than a Starlink 1.0.
190. 11:44Are those different user terminals too, compared to...?
191. 11:47The user terminals are on a separate upgrade path.
192. 11:51Although user terminals will work with Starlink 1.0. or Starlink 2.0 satellites,
193. 11:56but the Starlink 2.0s are just much more capable.
194. 12:03Um, is it possible to go up in the tower, and do some or...?
195. 12:06Um, I don't know. Can we go up in the tower? Is the elevator working?
196. 12:10As long as the generator gone? Yeah. I can fire it up.
197. 12:11Okay.
198. 12:14I mean just might not be a bad place to watch a sunset at this point.
199. 12:18Yeah.
200. 13:16Where are y'all going to?
201. 13:16Men's department!
202. 13:21I guess we could stop at the QD arm and then, you know,
203. 13:26then continue up.
204. 13:28That will be and then...
205. 13:39Yeah.
206. 13:49This views gonna be insane. I can already get little sneak peaks through the...
207. 13:54Danggg.
208. 14:21Wow, this is epic.
209. 14:23This is so epic.
210. 14:24We're not even at the top.
211. 14:26<Laugh>.
212. 14:30Better enough. It's worth. This is where the QD arm is.
213. 14:35Oh, hey.
214. 14:37The top has a better view.
215. 14:39Look at how beefy all this stuff is though.
216. 14:42Yeah. I mean, this is insane, custom designed gigantic
217. 14:48hardware. I mean it's hard to believe this is real.
218. 14:52It genuinely is.
219. 14:58Oh man. Geez.
220. 15:10<Laugh> That's... It's quite the view.
221. 15:14It's beautiful.
222. 15:16Yeah. It's beautiful.
223. 15:19We're even above the booster even right now.
224. 15:23And we are in the sky.
225. 15:31We can't even see South Padre.
226. 15:34Oh, wow. Yeah. Really hazy.
227. 15:41Well, should we go up?
228. 15:41Yeah. <laugh>.
229. 15:45Even better when there's a vehicle on the OLM.
230. 15:47Oh, I know. I know. I can't imagine.
231. 15:51Up close and personal. You gotta come back.
232. 15:54Oh yeah. I missed the one... I came
233. 15:59out here I think the day after you guys stacked. Well,
234. 16:02I guess I came out for last event,
235. 16:04but I think they stacked on like the 4th or not, don't know something.
236. 16:07I don't what day it was. I was like next day. That's right.
237. 16:29Emergency escape ladder thing?
238. 16:31You can hand crank all the way down if you really lost power.
239. 16:32I
240. 16:45maybe want to do that once. It'd probably take like an hour. I feel like you...
241. 16:53Holy crap. We're really getting up here though.
242. 17:01The craziest thing to me is that none of this was here a year ago. You know,
243. 17:05that's just hard to fathom is like,
244. 17:07especially if you were out here three years ago and saw quite literally nothing
245. 17:12but a field and a little R2D2 man. Wow, look
246. 17:25at that.
247. 17:31I mean it's far down there.
248. 17:45If this isn't surreal. I don't know what is.
249. 17:46Yeah, totally. It's insane. I mean, the Ship looks small from here.
250. 17:51The ship looks tiny from here.
251. 17:55Even people are like tiny. It's like, "Whoa".
252. 17:59How tall is this again at this point?
253. 18:01143 Meters at the top. Or about
254. 18:06138 maybe?
255. 18:14Oh my God. And look at how how hazy even the production site is right now.
256. 18:19Yeah.
257. 18:28This is not a good place if you have a fear of heights, that's for sure.
258. 18:31<Laugh> You better go get over 'em real quick.
259. 19:12Yeah. We should get like a hang glider and jump off or something.
260. 19:15<laugh> That'd be sweet.
261. 19:18<Laugh>.
262. 19:19You could sell rides as a zip line over to the High Bay.
263. 19:23You could probably zip line pretty far.
264. 19:28I can't believe how small the boosters look from here even. That
265. 19:35just looks... It looks so fake right now. This is insane.
266. 19:42And just, we <laugh> how's that feel?
267. 19:44Whoa. Vertigo.
268. 19:48Oh my God.
269. 19:52You see the ocean out there.
270. 19:54We really lucked out on the on the night.
271. 19:57The Gulf, I guess
272. 20:03<laugh> Insane.
273. 20:05It is insane. <laugh>.
274. 20:08It is gorgeous.
275. 20:10I think this is the time to be philosophical almost.
276. 20:13It's just so inspiring out here, you know, it's... Do you,
277. 20:18I mean, in your heart of hearts, like in the very depths of your soul,
278. 20:21do you really believe this is like the start of making human Multi-planetary?
279. 20:26I believe we have... I
280. 20:29think for the first time it is possible.
281. 20:32There's a possible outcome to make life multi-planetary.
282. 20:36The key to making life multi planetary is a fully
283. 20:42reusable rocket. That's the key.
284. 20:44So full and rapid reusability, like an aircraft.
285. 20:51So it's just very hard to achieve full reusability given
286. 20:56the strength of Earth's gravity field and the density of the atmosphere.
287. 21:01Full reusability would be, well,
288. 21:04like relatively easy on Mars which has around
289. 21:0937-38% of Earth's gravity and about 1% atmospheric density.
290. 21:15It's just barely possible to achieve reusability on Earth. Like
291. 21:20it's not as though, you know, all the, the rocket engineers in the past..
292. 21:24It's not as though reusability never occurred to them. They, I mean,
293. 21:28they're well aware of aircraft and other things. It's just that it's
294. 21:33an incredibly difficult technical problem and
295. 21:40they just thought it was
296. 21:43impossible or the probability of success was so low that it was not worth doing.
297. 21:50I
298. 21:53feel like you almost had a bit of a Noah's Ark-esque you know,
299. 21:56if you're gonna get Biblical, aspect at the last talk was saying how, you know,
300. 22:00if you care about life and
301. 22:03the true continuation of life on Earth and continuation of life as a
302. 22:06consciousness, then you have to have a sustained planet, you know,
303. 22:11another sustained planet off of Earth.
304. 22:13Exactly. I mean, I think you know,
305. 22:18if you think really long term, then you realize that eventually there
306. 22:23will be some natural disaster even if it is not made by humans
307. 22:28that destroys all life on Earth.
308. 22:31So eventually the sun will expand and evaporate the oceans and
309. 22:35and will be like Venus you know, just
310. 22:40so hot that no life can really exist or maybe some chemotrophic
311. 22:45bacteria, but eventually even they will, they will die.
312. 22:48So the only way to prolong life,
313. 22:51as we know it is for us to become multi-planetary and ultimately
314. 22:56multi-stellar. And if
315. 23:00we do not do that all life on Earth will die.
316. 23:05So those who care about life on Earth should really care a lot about life
317. 23:10becoming multi-planetary and ultimately multi-stellar.
318. 23:13Well,
319. 23:13I think there's a lot of people get attached to this idea that for some reason,
320. 23:17you know,
321. 23:18SpaceX or other aerospace companies are trying to escape Earth and escape
322. 23:22Earth's problems. And I think you put it into a really good perspective that,
323. 23:26you know, currently specifically like NASA's budgets, you know, 0.3% of the,
324. 23:31you know, of the federal budget and then let alone, you know,
325. 23:35the entire cost of how much we're investing so far in, you know, making,
326. 23:40you know,
327. 23:41getting humans off of Earth and protecting our planet even with asteroid defense
328. 23:44and stuff is still relatively small. I think people don't understand that the...
329. 23:48Oh yeah. So the Earth does not currently have any ability to stop
330. 23:53asteroids now with Starship that we
331. 23:59then have some ability to stop an asteroid. Actually,
332. 24:02technically a comet would be the real danger because there are billions
333. 24:07if not more than billions,
334. 24:08maybe trillions of objects that are in the outer solar
335. 24:13system some of them with that are very long period comments.
336. 24:20An example that most people are probably aware of is Halley's Comet.
337. 24:23So I forget the exact period is today but it's slightly under once per century
338. 24:27that Halley's comment comes by. So
339. 24:32there are probably many objects,
340. 24:36many comments that have very long periods that we simply don't know exist and
341. 24:42for example, the comet Shoemaker-Levy when that hit Jupiter,
342. 24:49it made a hole in Jupiter, the size of Earth.
343. 24:52So if that did hit Earth, that's "Game Over" everything's dead.
344. 24:59So anyways,
345. 25:03there's always some risk of such a thing occurring and the
346. 25:12probable lifespan of life is just much greater if we're a multi-planet and
347. 25:17ultimately multi-stellar civilization.
348. 25:21Well, I think people also don't tend to realize that it's not a zero sum game,
349. 25:24that if we're working on rockets and space flight and aerospace technology and
350. 25:29all of these things, life support for these things, it's not just that you,
351. 25:33you know,
352. 25:33as company spend a hundred million dollars on a rocket and that a hundred
353. 25:35million dollars went into space,
354. 25:37it's that a hundred million went into the economy, you know,
355. 25:41invested in our own technology, our terrestrial technology, you know.
356. 25:45Look at all the spinoffs of NASA and what, you know,
357. 25:47what NASA had done in the 60s and 70s to create the society that we live in
358. 25:51today. You know, I mean, I think people are shortsighted sometimes on, you know,
359. 25:56on the implications that you don't immediately see those things that you don't
360. 26:00immediately grasp, because we they're just kind of unknowns at this point,
361. 26:03you know?
362. 26:04I mean, in general, the you know, the economy is
363. 26:10very much a positive sum game, a kind of a growing the pie situation.
364. 26:15When
365. 26:20people examine their understanding or beliefs of the economy, if
366. 26:25they have an implicit assumption that
367. 26:30the economy is zero sum,
368. 26:34then the only way for one person to get ahead is by taking things from another.
369. 26:38But obviously the economy today is much,
370. 26:42much greater than it was in the past. And we have the
371. 26:49economic output per person is massively greater than the
372. 26:54past. And
373. 26:57so obviously what has happened is that the pie has grown and has grown much
374. 27:01faster than the population has grown. You
375. 27:07know, essentially if one creates wealth or creates
376. 27:14great products and services that,
377. 27:17that is something that should be applauded. That is, we've
378. 27:24effectively increased the standard of living of,
379. 27:31you know, of the country and perhaps of the world.
380. 27:36The, you know, and sometimes people will conflate or you know,
381. 27:41essentially
382. 27:43they think of consumption and wealth as the same thing,
383. 27:46but they're obviously not the same thing. You
384. 27:51know, this is sort of a long argument of sort of capital allocation is
385. 27:56a job consumption is fun, but capital allocation is a job.
386. 28:02So anyway,
387. 28:05I don't think a ton of people want say Warren Buffet's job,
388. 28:08which is to read through very tedious annual reports of companies,
389. 28:12including the minutia of the accounting and decide whether to
390. 28:17invest in Coke or Pepsi. I don't want that job.
391. 28:22<laugh>.
392. 28:25I think aerospace in general kind of still follows the same, like, you know,
393. 28:29if back in the day at one point, no one had electricity, running water,
394. 28:33air conditioning, all of modern life's conveniences.
395. 28:36And of course at first it started off as something that only a few people could
396. 28:39get. And now it's, you know,
397. 28:41a pretty common standard of living across the world. And, you know,
398. 28:44you gotta start somewhere, same with air travel, you know?
399. 28:46Yeah. Exactly air travel used to be accessible to almost no-one,
400. 28:50to very few people. It was insanely expensive and dangerous.
401. 28:53And now it is commonplace to fly somewhere. TVs
402. 29:01used to be rare and expensive. And then, you know,
403. 29:05big flat screen, plasmas used to be extremely expensive. And now you can buy,
404. 29:10you know, go to Walmart and buy an amazing flat screen plasma for 500 bucks.
405. 29:15It's amazing.
406. 29:17Yeah, it really is.
407. 29:19Yeah.
408. 29:22Oh man. I don't wanna end the conversation on Walmart plasmas,
409. 29:25but at the same time <laugh>.
410. 29:28Yeah.
411. 29:30Wow.
412. 29:33It's a hell of a lot of progress.
413. 29:36I mean, again, not to bring up the past, but three years ago,
414. 29:38I think the first time I ever came out here was March, 2019.
415. 29:42So almost exactly three years ago. And all you had was little hoppy.
416. 29:47He had just made it out here and was starting to do some of the initial static
417. 29:50firing. That was <laugh> that was three years ago.
418. 29:53That's amazing that the, the hopper is still there.
419. 29:56Yeah. Looking over us, all the grandfather, we all need.
420. 30:01Yeah.
421. 30:03But even, I mean, even the tank farm was like three tanks of those smaller,
422. 30:07you know, for the first test,
423. 30:08it was so tiny and there was literally just a dirt mound and three tanks.
424. 30:13And now, you know,
425. 30:14it's <laugh> and there was a tent out there and that was about it.
426. 30:18Yeah.
427. 30:19The propellant storage for the whole vehicle was actually,
428. 30:24that was a really, that was a quite difficult,
429. 30:28just put a lot of effort into the propellant storage.
430. 30:33How? So if you have to scrub,
431. 30:38if you're trying to do like the first static fires and stuff,
432. 30:40how long does it take to recycle because you're probably...
433. 30:43What's that look like?
434. 30:44Because you have to drain the propellants back into the tanks and say,
435. 30:48you have to come out here and wrench on something and you know,
436. 30:50you have 33 engines that all have to work harmoniously.
437. 30:53What's a scrub and recycle look like with this system right now?
438. 30:58Well, first is gonna take us long time to scrub and recycle, but
439. 31:03over time it should be very fast and we really shouldn't be scrubbing.
440. 31:06It should just take off for it's like a normal thing.
441. 31:08Yeah. But I mean, obviously the first,
442. 31:10the first booster static fires will be probably...
443. 31:13Yeah, no, I mean, it is gonna be very bumpy at first. I mean,
444. 31:17for Falcon 9 in the beginning
445. 31:21we'd have like a dozen recycles, like we'd scrub the launch like a dozen times.
446. 31:24I mean, for a while there I was living out at the Cape,
447. 31:29basically just working on,
448. 31:32getting the damn rocket to take to, you know,
449. 31:35getting all nine engines to start and take off and,
450. 31:37and 'cause we would just have one launch abort after another.
451. 31:43And I brought the kids with me and I went to,
452. 31:45went to DisneyWorld a lot and Harry Potter land.
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