SpaceX Testing - SuperDraco Engine Firing

SpaceX successfully test fires SuperDraco, a powerful new engine that will play a critical role in efforts to change the future of human spaceflight. These engines will power a revolutionary launch escape system that will make Dragon the safest spacecraft in history and enable it to land propulsively on Earth or another planet with pinpoint accuracy. In a series of tests conducted at SpaceX's Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, Texas, the SuperDraco sustained full duration, full thrust firing as well as a series of deep throttling demonstrations.

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[logitech4873]

yeah, everyone knows spacecrafts and jet engines aren't real.

[fredfinks]

You fools, of course rockets are fake!!

The evil GOV fakes them all to keep the belief of the moon landings alive. If they were real we would all be living like the jetsons.

Same with the WTC towers, they were faked too. There is no NY city!

I should know because my uncle's neighbours friend's cat made a website about mini-nukes and Sasquatch.

[Sarge Rho]

Complete moron.

[therealnightwriter]

Complete scam. Ben Rich said - “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.” “We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars..."

[taylorwsims]

Standing wave nodes!

[Head Hunter]

Yep not real

[matthew6009]

I can't wait until SpaceX sends an astronaut up.

[alcoholcausefunpl]

0:13 thats not an engine thats a duct hose

[smadzenites]

There's high development costs associated with a new methane engine the size of Merlin 2. It's on the order of $1 billion, so it'll happen when the government decides it wants to pay for it. But, please, check my numbers. I'm writing from memory.

[dgelevators1]

probably not soon

[dylan522p]

I know this is real, but it looks like terrible special effects.

[serpentphoenix]

When are they gonna do real LAS test on the Dragon?