Hello, we are TheSpaceXFans and welcome to TheSpaceXShow, the place where you can stay
up to date with everything SpaceX. To kick off this video, we have a Tweet from Shane
Kimborough of the CRS-23 Dragon arriving at the International Space Station. He said “We
have a new visitor on the Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle just arrived this
morning loaded with science and goodies. Time to unpack!” Inspiration4 posted a Tweet
with a picture of their crew who will fly to orbit for a few day trip in September.
They said “As the first all-civilian crew to orbit the Earth, Inspiration4 is excited
to share experiments and research with SpaceX, the Translational Research Institute for Space
Health & Weill Cornell Medicine that will help continue to broaden access to space exploration.”
Jared Isaacman also posted an update on the mission preparations by posting this Tweet.
He said “Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) aka "Dragon Test Drive" complete. This morning
we strapped in to Crew Dragon Resilience w/ our flight spacesuits. All systems checked
good! Dragon is stacked on trunk and looking sexy. L-16 days.” Somebody posted a graphic
of the current SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy flightworthy boosters. Musk responded
with “The rocket fleet grows.” There was an article posted about SpaceX’s new boats
called Bob and Doug, named after the first SpaceX astronauts that flew on Demo 2. It
says “SpaceX has two new support ships and they are like swiss army knives of boats,
capable of doing what SpaceX previously would do with three different boats.” As well
as that it says that Bob still needs some more work but “Doug on the other hand just
arrived at Port Canaveral after skimming the top of Ida on its way through the Gulf.”
Kyle Montgommery posted a picture of the first booster brought home by the new A Shortfall
Of Gravitas droneship. He also posted in another Tweet that this booster, B1061 has landed
on all three of SpaceX’s droneships. Over in Boca Chica, here’s a view of the orbital
tank farm construction work. The orbital launch mount continues to be prepared as they get
closer and closer to the first orbital flight. During the week, the quick disconnect arm
was lifted up to and installed on the tower. Crews are continuing to work on the launch
tower catching arms. Musk posted a bunch of information about the Mechazilla catching
arms and the plan for them. His first Tweet says “SpaceX will try to catch largest ever
flying object with robot chopsticks. Success is not guaranteed, but excitement is!” Chris
Bergin then responded with “As soon as Booster 5, Elon? Or perhaps only until the boosters
have achieved a few pinpoint water landings?” Musk responded to that with “Hopefully first
try with booster 5.” Musk also responded to his original Tweet about catching the booster
with “Stage Zero.” In response to the original Tweet also, Musk was asked a question
about catching the Ship too. He was asked “I remember you saying that Mechazilla will
catch Super Heavy booster and ship, wondering how the ship will caught using the Mechazilla?
In other words, what will the Mechazilla latch on to for catching the Ship, will it be upper
flap wings? As for Super Heavy booster there's fins.” Musk then responded with “Booster
has 2 pins for lifting & catching, although maybe it’s better to modify grid fins to
take more load. Something will need to flip out from leeward side of top of ship to do
same there. Maybe it’s part of fwd flaps, but probably not. Different solutions for
different load paths.” More specifically on the booster load points mentioned, Marcus
House posted a Tweet with a picture from Mary. He asked “How will SpaceX catch the booter?
What we think is that these points here will take the load. Very interesting.” Musk said
“Yes.” There was a response to Musk's Ship catching plan asking “How will the
arms ‘slide’ the booster back out to line up with the orbital pad?” Musk responded
and said “Tank treads on the arms.” A new tent has been spotted being constructed
at the production site. Nic Ansuini posted a Tweet yesterday of the small ground support
equipment tank which has been moved to the propellant production site. In the yard, the
ground support equipment tank, GSE-7 continued to be worked on. This GSE-7 ground support
equipment tank was also rolled out to the launch site during the week. Jack Dorsey,
who recently visited Starbase, posted this cool shot of Ship 20. Here’s a view of the
Starship 20 heat shield, looking a lot more complete. In the High Bay, the Super Heavy
Booster 4 prototype continues to be prepared for testing. As always, I have to thank Mary,
known as BocaChicaGal who is out in Boca Chica always filming the Starbase content. Also,
some of the content in this video was filmed for NSF by Nic Ansuini so thanks to him also
for being out there filming the content. Then, of course, I also like to thank the NASASpaceflight
team working behind the scenes on their videos, livestreams and other space content. That’s
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