{"id":15707,"date":"2018-03-11T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15707"},"modified":"2018-03-11T15:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T19:23:33","slug":"video-falcon-heavy-starman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15707","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;Falcon Heavy &#038; Starman&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u00a0 on Saturday\u00a0released a short video of the Falcon Heavy launch made by Jonathan Nolan, the co-creator of HBO series\u00a0<em>Westworld<\/em>. It includes brief footage of the central core nearly crashing into the\u00a0<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"droneship\" data-scayt-lang=\"en_US\">droneship landing pad at high speed<\/span>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/972628124893671432\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/972628124893671432\">Elon Musk on Twitter:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why Falcon Heavy &amp;\u00a0<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"Starman\" data-scayt-lang=\"en_US\">Starman<\/span>? Life cannot just be about solving one sad problem after another. There need to be things that inspire you, that make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity. That is why we did it. We did for you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A0FZIwabctw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More about the<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/3\/10\/17105322\/elon-musk-spacex-falcon-heavy-westworld-jonathan-nolan-trailer-sxsw\" target=\"_d\">Elon Musk and the creator of Westworld made an inspirational trailer for the Falcon Heavy launch &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2018\/03\/10\/elon-musk-westworld-falcon-heavy-video-sxsw\/\" target=\"_d\">Elon Musk debuts dazzling Falcon Heavy videos at SXSW &#8211; Mashable<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/spacex-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-crashes-westworld-panel-at-sxsw\/\" target=\"_d\">Elon Musk stops by &#8216;Westworld&#8217; panel at SXSW &#8211; CNET<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/03\/10\/elon-musk-crashes-sxsw-panel-to-talk-about-space-travel\/\" target=\"_d\">Elon Musk crashes SXSW panel to talk about space travel | TechCrunch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A photo that provides some scale for those side boosters, which were on their second flights to suborbital space and back &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlanStern\/status\/972880126777028608\" target=\"_d\">AlanStern on Twitter: &#8220;Rockets are big!\u2026 &#8220;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15708\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=15708\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BoosterScaleView.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,787\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Falcon 9 Booster Scale View\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BoosterScaleView-244x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BoosterScaleView.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15708\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BoosterScaleView.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BoosterScaleView.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BoosterScaleView-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=amzn_basics_elctnics&amp;banner=10PFV81ZPVCWKXE6S9G2&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=caaa70725fb7c5b929777e8413b07b34&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u00a0 on Saturday\u00a0released a short video of the Falcon Heavy launch made by Jonathan Nolan, the co-creator of HBO series\u00a0Westworld. It includes brief footage of the central core nearly crashing into the\u00a0droneship landing pad at high speed.\u00a0Elon Musk on Twitter: &#8220;Why Falcon Heavy &amp;\u00a0Starman? Life cannot just be about solving one sad problem after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: &#8220;Falcon Heavy &#038; Starman&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","category-space-films-and-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-45l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15551,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15551","url_meta":{"origin":15707,"position":0},"title":"Videos: SpaceX to attempt first launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"SpaceX hopes to launch its \u00a0Falcon Heavy rocket today from Kennedy Space Center. 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