#SpaceX: Waiting. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
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#SpaceX: Waiting. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watching-the-second-attempt-to-launch-starship-superheavy-to-orbit/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I Am the World. |
| 0:02.6 | I'm John Bachel from the surface of the planet Earth. |
| 0:05.1 | We go right to Boca Chica, Texas. |
| 0:07.6 | Waiting for the launch of Starship. |
| 0:09.1 | Super heavy Bob Zimmerman. |
| 0:10.5 | He keeps the website behind the black. |
| 0:13.0 | Bob the event was dramatic. |
| 0:15.6 | Everybody watching on streaming. |
| 0:16.9 | I recommend it was a good image. |
| 0:19.4 | SpaceX provided all of the details we needed to wait for the launch. |
| 0:23.7 | What were we waiting for Bob? |
| 0:25.3 | Why? |
| 0:26.3 | That long countdown. |
| 0:27.3 | What were they achieving in the countdown? |
| 0:29.2 | Why did they interrupt it and then scrub? |
| 0:32.2 | Good evening John. |
| 0:35.2 | The first attempted orbital launch of Starship on top of Super Heavy as scheduled on Monday |
| 0:41.5 | April 17. |
| 0:42.5 | Got scrubbed as you say because they said they detected what they called a pressurization |
| 0:49.5 | issue in one of the tanks. |
| 0:51.3 | For me understand one of the tanks wasn't opening or closing as it properly showed. |
| 0:56.7 | They weren't getting the right pressure they wanted. |
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