SpaceX Starship splashdown somehow SHOCKED NASA with this method...

I can't thank you enough for displaying both miles, mph, etc. as well as the metric standard. I love you channel. I've followed the space program since the Mercury day's. The good days and bad. Thanks again.

NASA did water recovery of the SRBs. The Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) operate in parallel with the main engines for the first two minutes of flight to provide the additional thrust needed for the Orbiter to escape the gravitational pull of the Earth. At an altitude of approximately 45 km (24 nautical miles), the boosters separate from the orbiter/external tank, descend on parachutes, and land in the Atlantic Ocean (+ View Video: SRB Processing). They are recovered by ships, returned to land, and refurbished for reuse. So as long as Space X can slow the decent of Starship and the Super Heavy sufficiently before impacting the ocean, and have water recovery vehicles waiting, this water landing technique should allow them to examine Starship after the test. and could be used as an emergency backup plan.

FYI the belly flop starship maneuver has been often compared to a skydiver's body position when instable terminal velocity free fall. This is somewhat appropriate. A skydiver in this position sometimes called frog position cant Free Fall at the slowest speed and can adjust arm and leg positions and he'll get the ball as it is sometimes turn and slow down a bit further, or by using arm and leg position can assume a more head up or head down position which will increase speed of free fall. In these aspects the starship can behave in similar fashion. This has nothing to do with how a skydiver lands. Obviously a skydiver must deploy the parachute and makes it controlled descent using the lift and drag effects of the parachute landing in an upright position on feet and legs, hopefully within almost zero zero velocity at the moment of touchdown.

They don't want to get in trouble with the FAA or destroy the catcher without an ocean test. It's a great move.

Looking forward to Starship's total success and recovery for reuse over and over. Elon Musk rocks!

SpaceX should build a simplified and shorter landing only tower in a separate location to protect the launch tower, and eventually several landing only towers (and of course, launch towers). Separation of launches and landings will be necessitated by significant launch schedules in the future anyway.

No one has ever flown a ship of this magnitude. Everything is unknown until she is allowed to wake.

The First Sub-Orbital Launch wasn't a Failure but, a Learning Experience. As Elon Musk has stated B4.

The first Falcon 9s were expendable one shots. Later when they began to try and land them, there were failures. It was expected, and they learned from each one. That has been the SpaceX model! Not to expect perfection at first, but to try it and learn from the mistakes. These first Starship launches are "throw away one shots". They will analyze what worked and what didn't and make improvements!

The explosion was a result of the “setback”. Not vice versa. The launch failed by components breaking down. Self destruct was commanded after failure.

How many times will you repeat information to fill time?

This is probably the best presentation this channel has produced! Thanks!

Watched for 8 minutes for you to say about being shocked at not landing the rocket. It's their second launch attempt, why work on landing the Starships landing capabilities when it's likely that it won't even get that far. Those who are shocked need a reality check.

Why do I always get a feeling that this channel is a publicity outlet for Space X in every video ?!?

It seems to me that it would also be a good practice and test for a specific type of emergency return, landing, and recovery.

It floats! Great design. Hawaiian Native People will be excited and ready with their kayaks.

If they work out the kinks, seal up the vehicle and it works well, they could literally take off, water land it off the coast of Florida or Texas, have it recovered to land in under a day and be cleaning and refitting/inspecting in under 48 hours. That is still a hell of a beginning to a turn around, the Shuttle barely made that when it landed on the runway right next to the hanger.

Thank you for explaining SpaceX Build it, Launch it, Break it, Redesign it, Rebuild it, system of experimental rocket testing.

You do not LAND the rocket into the ocean.. you OCEAN it.

So literally no footage of this thing landing in the ocean…