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I find it funny that some people got hung up on Starship not having gone orbital before Flight 14 when in the grand scheme of things it was completely arbitrary in terms of performance. The 19ish second burn only added about 91 m/s of velocity (a 1.2% increase in velocity)
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I should be hardened to seeing rockets launch… yet I just couldn’t help but take my phone out and shoot this because it just felt too unreal! It’s absolutely incredible to be just 4 miles from Starship’s first orbital launch!!! Huge congrats @SpaceX team!!!