After 40 years of service, the aircraft carrier USS John F Kennedy is towed into the port of Brownsville for scrapping, as SpaceX's massive Starbase Starship Super Heavy rocket program advances towards new frontiers. Work always continues on the launch mount(s) (plural now) as Starship launch pad B progresses towards operational flight status.
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🤵 Hosted in Spanish by Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (@AlexPhysics13)
🤵 Hosted in German by Adrian Beil (@bccarcounters)
🎥 Video from Mary (@bocachicagal), Jack Beyer (@thejackbeyer), Starbase LIVE Crew ( http://nsf.live/starbase)
✂️ Edited by Thomas Hayden (@_thomashayden)
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Timestamps:
0:00 USS John F. Kennedy
4:13 Flap Moved Into Mega Bay 2
4:27 Driving Down Highway 4
5:00 Turning Down the Port Connector
5:18 Tanks at the Port
5:38 USS John F. Kennedy
5:56 Back on Highway 4
6:10 The Production Site
6:51 The Launch Site
7:16 Flame Deflector
7:38 Deliveries
7:58 Pad B’s OLM
8:38 Aft Flap Delivered
8:58 Parking Garage
9:20 The Rocket Garden
9:30 Pez Loader Installed
9:57 Orbital Pad B
10:51 Orbital Pad A
11:33 Masseys Test Site
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