Your comments made me look up the history of NASA's WB-57s. Wikipedia says that NASA has operated two planes continuously, but in 2011 decided that they needed a third, so the retrieved one that had

Been there, done that. Sent from my Galaxy

Thanks for the laugh, Jonathan. Seriously

Someone must have realized at the last moment that they had forgotten to put the ejection charge powder in the reload. ;-) Jonathan

Well, that was kind of anticlimactic. - GDS

No go for today. Jonathan

About 2 minutes to go. Jonathan

Current target for launch is 1630

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WB-57 is air born and bound for Brownsville. fueling has started. I am going to make sure I have it up on YouTube. Best guess at this point is 1545-1600ish.

He gave the Falcon Heavy launch a 50% chance of success. Was calling it a success if it didn’t take out the launch pad…… Sent from Mail for Windows 10

NASA WB-57 out of Ellington (Houston) being used to support this. Currently not slated to take off until 230pm CST. When that takes off, it should give us a 30-45 minute warning.

prepping for flight now Nothing before 2pm...probably later

exactly what I meant

Lowered Expectations!

Would that be Elon's way of saying, without saying, he doesn't expect it to go well?

Looks like flight window opens about 2pm. Because this is a prototype test, Elon estimates maybe 1/3 chance of getting SN8 back intact.

Nothing immediately imminent. Pad is clear and some venting is taking place but Remove Before Flight" items still in place.

SpaceX Starship set to begin live coverage in a few minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf83yzzme2I only scheduled for a 12.5 km flight but with landing of the

Oops, Monday. - GDS