(crowd cheering)
(sonic booms)
(upbeat music)
- Hey, we're at the airport.
We're making our way and Jack is being a good boy
We haven't told him why we're going
because he's afraid he'll be put on the rocket.
(upbeat background music)
- So we're here at the meet up
and um I just got s*** on by a bird.
(upbeat background music)
- Okay we just finished the meet up.
Uh had a lot of fun meeting a lot of people.
Thank you guys for coming out.
Now me and Joe are gonna go check out the Megaladon.
Stay tuned.
(raining)
- So it's raining out, sort of
and the launch got pushed back another day
and so we're gonna go check out Kennedy Space Center today
and see what they have going on
but first we need to extend our stay
at this lovely facility, lets go.
(upbeat background music)
- Okay guys it's officially canceled,
but we'll be back tomorrow.
We'll all be back tomorrow.
Hopefully watching from right here.
(slow motivational music)
- What's up guys I am here at the Falcon Heavy Launch.
Which is curtesy of the Tesla Referral Program
secret level 3.
Thank you to Tesla for inviting me
and what we're gonna do is go watch the Falcon Heavy's
first commercial launch of Arabsat 6A
from this place right behind me which is the
Exploration Tower in Cape Canaveral, Florida
We get to watch from the highest viewing point
in the entire area and one of
the closest to the landing pads.
Where the two Falcon 9 rockets
are gonna come down at LZ1 and LZ2.
Fingers crossed, but before we do that,
I thought I would ask friend Tim Dodd
the everyday astronaut to explain to us
what we can expect from a rocket launch.
If this is new to you,
if you're not sure how this goes down.
He is the expert at it, So here's Tim,
Explaining to us exactly what to expect tonight
from the Falcon Heavy launch.
- Explain a rocket launch, huh Ben.
Well basically you take a vehicle,
you fill it full of uh rocket fuel,
you put the pointy end up, and the flamey end down.
Then you let it go.
Well of corse there's actually a lot more to it
and uh we're only about two hours away
from seeing uh SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launch.
Which is an awesome vehicle
and since it's only about 500 kilometers
3 miles behind me here, uh at Kennedy Space Center
and this vehicle is special because
it's the most powerful operational rocket in the world
and 90% of it can be re-used.
So those side boosters actually land back here on land
and the center core will land about 1000 kilometers
or 600 miles down range on a drone ship in the ocean.
So then the vehicle is actually
able to be completely re-used
and go up to space again
and that is something very different
very unique, and extremely groundbreaking,
and offers a very good glimpse
for the future of space flight.
So it'll be an awesome launch to see.
- Alright, thanks Tim.
So without further ado,
Let's go into the event
(upbeat pop music)
(crowd conversing)
- [Young Man] Watch the Launch Pad.
(crowd cheers)
(cheering)
- There it goes.
- [Young Man] I can feel the heat off of it.
- There's the sound.
- Whoa.
(crowd goes silent)
(crowd cheers)
(crowd silent)
- Is it just getting littler?
- Yeah it's going up to space.
(voice over loud speaker)
(crowd cheers)
- [Young Man] Announced the separation
- [Man 2] Oh the separation.
- [Young Man] You can see them
- [Man 2] I can see them.
(chatter amongst crowd)
(crowd cheers)
- I don't see them.
- [Wife] You don't see them?
- No.
- [Wife] They're right there.
See the little white dot.
(voice on loud speaker)
- Oh I see them Jack, look it,
look, right there.
What, oh my gosh.
Jack, look it, Jack, right there look.
(crowd cheers)
- Oh my gosh.
You got it baby, you got it.
( voice on loudspeaker)
(crowd cheering)
(sonic booms)
(crowd cheering)
- Oh my god
oh wow
wow
what'd you think honey.
- [Wife] I'm glad you told me that, that happens.
It sounded almost, crazy.
- Jack what'd you think?
- Again.
- [Wife] Again!
It's a once in a lifetime Bud.
- Wow
- We can watch it on TV.
- Okay.
- [Ben] What are your first thoughts?
- Um, amazing, I still can't believe that I'm here
like seeing this right now with my own eyes.
So cool, it was really bright
and I felt like it , it took a minute to actually
to like hear anything I was surprised at how long it,
I mean it felt probably a long time because
I had that anticipation going but it was so cool.
Oh for sure!
- [Ben] Joe Scott, first thoughts?
- Uh well I was just saying on my channel
that uh, it's, you really get a different perspective
on how fast these boosters are coming down when
they land because on, on YouTube
like you see it from the core,
and I mean that's cool and all
but, but you really, like they're
just falling out of the sky,
and then in the last what 30 seconds
they, they turn on the engines
and they slow down really slowly before they land
that really stuck out to me.
That's something you'll have to be here to see I guess
- That's like the uh, Lunar Lander right the game .
You ever play that where its like you're coming down
and you just
(buzzing sound)
- The one I fail at every single time, yeah.
- Yeah apparently Tim has the world record.
Of corse
- Of corse he does.
- We hate you Tim
We love you too
but we hate you also
- [Ben] Dan, what did you think?
- That was cool, um I totally missed the shot
with my camera but I don't even care
because I didn't even focus on it .
I was just, I set the camera up
and then I just wanted to enjoy it and take it in,
so, I did that, I think it was fun.
- Yup, that was amazing.
Hope you guys enjoyed this video,
uh if you want more of this kind of thing.
My friend Tim Dodd that was in the video earlier,
and Joe Scott, who you heard from,
We have a PodCast called
Our Ludicrous Future
Where we talk about things like Tesla stuff,
SpaceX, uh future tech,
and just kinda what's going on
and uh, that's gonna make our future even more ludicrous.
So go check that out um, at ourludicrousfuture.com
or here on YouTube.
Ill put a link to it down below,
and I'll catch you guys in the next one,
and uh thanks Tesla again for inviting me out.
What a special day, Thanks for making it possible.
Peace.
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