#SPACEX Starship waits for chopstick approval. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the World Behind the Black Bob Zimmerman joins to update us on the |
| 0:10.3 | update of the update of the FAA and Boca Chica Texas SpaceX. |
| 0:16.2 | When last we left our heroes, they were grounded, but Bob, a very good evening to you, |
| 0:21.3 | grounded, unground grounded grounded this thing becomes like a flip of a coin can he help us understand what the |
| 0:27.8 | yeah i must clarify this this is not boccachika though boccasikitika is part of this |
| 0:32.4 | story but the the this this happens not Boca Chico, or Boca Chico is part of this story, but this having to do grounding |
| 0:35.5 | ungrounding has to do with SpaceX and its general normal launches out of Cape Canaveral, Kennedy, |
| 0:41.0 | and Vandenberg. |
| 0:43.0 | Last week they had a launch which went fine, |
| 0:46.6 | getting satellites into orbit. |
| 0:48.4 | The first stage worked fine and doing its job. |
| 0:51.4 | It landed fine. it appeared softly, but then it fell over on the |
| 0:56.8 | drawn ship. |
| 0:58.5 | Apparently, one of the legs either buckled or failed or didn't deploy properly. |
| 1:03.4 | It was on the other side of the video. |
| 1:05.3 | We couldn't see it, so we don't know exactly what happened. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm sure SpaceX knows. |
| 1:10.8 | But at that moment, suddenly the FAA announced that it's grounding SpaceX and it's not letting it launch until an investigation and that's in quotes was completed by the FAA. |
| 1:20.0 | Well SpaceX made it pretty clear within 24 hours that they were ready to launch again because there's no reason to stop launches if the first day you happened to fail at landing. |
| 1:30.0 | I mean, they crashed first stages for decades. |
| 1:33.4 | You don't worry about what happens to the first stage if you'll |
| 1:36.0 | launch is fine. |
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