Congrats to SpaceX and their team. Starship IFT 5 was utterly jaw dropping.
@mikeflstfi
Except for the part at the end where the ship crashed.
So it is a partial win.
Looked like a soft water landing to me, on target, followed by a RUD, which was good enough. They never planned to recover Starship. Even if it landed perfectly with no RUD, it was still sinking.
@mikeflstfi
That kind of landing would have killed the crew.
Yep. But an intact Starship isn’t (wasn’t) the goal for this flight.
Anywho, I’m not going to argue with you about it on a Sunday morning. I don’t do that here. This place isn’t that place.
Have a good day, amigo. 👍🏼
IS all good!
A lot of my objections have to do with engineering philosophy and the term you used RUD.
People tend to ignore the U in that acronym and I prefer to take it literally.