Starship Flight 7

I felt.. bad watching that breakup, it reminded me of Columbia.

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, but I thought this too.

Which coincidentally launched 22 years ago today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-107

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.

I remember waiting for the sonic boom, that never came…

Meta-commentary is annoying (yes, I realize the irony.)

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.

It's a weird deja vu feeling of uneasiness. I can't explain it, but I think also Columbia really hit me as my generation's Challenger.

Seeing it streak across the sky just reminded me of how important this is and how critically SpaceX must get it right before sending anyone up. I will never forget the trepidation of watching Bob and Doug go up and in tears when it was clear they made it.