This is here,

This is CBS, I on the World, I'm John Bachelor, Hotel Mars.

Episode N, Dr. Space himself is here David Livingston, my colleague and co-host and we're going to

Boca Chico Texas with the help of Dr. Doug Plata a longtime watcher of

SpaceX a frequent guest on David Livingston's space show, highly recommend

you listen to the episodes.

They're all archived.

Right now we're celebrating the success of these last days of test number 5, Starship and Super Heavy.

Doug, a very good evening to.

The event was on a Sunday morning here in the East Coast.

It was a little before 8.30 in the morning and all of a sudden

the sky lit up over Boca Chica. What was I witnessing in that tall pencil-like device that lifted into the sky. Good day to you, Doc.

Thank you, John.

Yeah, imagine you're there in South Texas in the distance. You see a launch tower and you see a rocket that's taller than even the

Saturn V rocket that took us to the moon.

This thing is like 40 stories tall building.

And the 33 engines on the booster stage fire up,

that's over 17 million pounds of thrust.

And just imagine this 40 story building launching up into the sky and as it's

launching towards space over Africa the first and second stage separate, and then that first stage, that booster

stage, rotates around, it pivots, starts firing in engines, and actually starts coming

back to the launch site to that tower.

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