This is

CBS I on the World, Hotel Mars, episode and.

and I'm John Bachelor David Livingston.

Dr. Space of the Space Show is here as my colleague and co-host and we're very

very privileged to welcome Eric Berger of Ars Technica, the author of Liftoff, Elon Musk in the desperate early days that launched SpaceX. It's an

exciting story it has a great punchline. We're thinking that everybody's going

to fail and then they don't and now here we are.

Voca Tica, Texas for four launches and Eric's here to help us what was achieved on the fourth

launch and what the fifth looks like.

Erica, very good evening to you.

Thank you for joining us.

The fourth launch, everybody was extremely excited.

What did it achieve?

What new thing happened perfectly?

Good evening to you.

Well, good evening, John and David.

Thanks very much for having me on.

The big things that the vehicle achieved

were essentially, for the first time,

SpaceX got both the rocket and the upper stage star shift vehicle back to Earth

So the rocket it was really cool to watch this is the the first stage, super heavy, with nearly three dozen

engines. You could see it come back all the way down to Earth. There was a camera on board the

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