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Starship Flight 7

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649 points chinathrow | 7 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
1. Molitor5901 ◴[17 Jan 25 00:36 UTC] No.42732750[source]▶
I felt.. bad watching that breakup, it reminded me of Columbia.
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2. xattt ◴[17 Jan 25 01:12 UTC] No.42732973[source]▶
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, but I thought this too.
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3. dpifke ◴[17 Jan 25 01:54 UTC] No.42733230[source]▶
Which coincidentally launched 22 years ago today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-107
4. birdman3131 ◴[17 Jan 25 02:16 UTC] No.42733360[source]▶
I remember being woken up by the thunder from Columbia.

Lost it over the years but I used to have a photo of about 20 vans of people parked on our property doing the search for debris. Don't think they found any on our land but there was a 3 ft chunk about 5 miles down the road.

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5. wingspar ◴[17 Jan 25 02:37 UTC] No.42733507[source]▶
I remember waiting for the sonic boom, that never came…
6. throitallaway ◴[17 Jan 25 03:54 UTC] No.42733896[source]▶
Meta-commentary is annoying (yes, I realize the irony.)
7. inglor_cz ◴[17 Jan 25 09:42 UTC] No.42735779[source]▶
OTOH I remembered Columbia too and I felt good knowing that Starship is being tested thoroughly without jeopardizing the crew.

The space-shuttle could not fly to the orbit automatically. It had to have people on board, and the first flight, IIRC, came close to a disaster.