Hopper to Flight 2: A Cinematic History of Starship Testing 

It's a joy seeing a company reach for greatness when most of the world is busy crapping on itself. Amazing progress

You forget, just how little the total flight time is. They have only had about an hour total. Amazing work SpaceX amazing work NSF WHOOP!

Here since hoppy lost his cone. Keep pushing spacex, humanity is rooting for you ❤

It was incredible to witness IFT2 in person. But the most incredible part was seeing all of you people hard at work literally non-stop (in the heat, cold, wind, mosquito swarms). Only when you arrive there you truly appreciate how hard your work is. Thank you

I started watching at Starhopper and I'm still watching today. I'm so excited to see where SpaceX takes us next. I'm feeling all the feels right now.

History in the making. Undecided as to which Starship test is my favorite. Probably sn10 as it exploded about eight minutes after successfully landing. Thanks SpaceX for allowing everyone to see it. Thanks NSF for bringing this to us.

Lots of screaming and cheering at the screens by all of us watching at home, thanks NSF team for all of the memories.

Thanks for giving NSF, my go to for all things spaceflight!

Its been inspirational following this journey.. and long may it continue! 🎉

Nice work NSF team! Thanks for all you do and keep being awesome!

Great to see the progress. You make so easy to b a NSF Nerd. Thankful for all of you and your efforts.

I remember Tim Dodd yelling "Watertanks can Fly!" As Hoppy took off.

been watching from the beginning, it's been a long road ... thanks so much for chronology. enjoyed the memories.

I saved this one to my fav list of videos! Thanks NSF

How far they have come in such a short space of time is truly amazing !! Can't wait to see what happens next . Go starship Go NSF !!

What a great historical montage of the Important SpaceX Starship milestone launches!! I realized as I was watching this video, I watched and witnessed each and every one of these launches as streamed and broadcasted by NSF right here on the NSF channel as they happened! Amazing!! Still watching eagerly as each historic launch happens right here on NSF! Thanks so much for what you guys do! It's so awesome that we get the up-close launch experience compliments of you guys at NSF!!

the rate of progress is just insane! Try, fail, improve, succeed !

This was so good, that half way through I forgot it was an NSF production and thought it was a SpaceX film. NSF production value and the team behind it ROCKS!!

My favorite compilation so far...!! I was watching Labs stream when Hoppy made its first flight. Love it all...!!

Say what you want, nothing has been as exciting as SN8 so far. First Starship with the entire configuration, first to the launch pad. And then, it doesn't just get off the ground, it executes a perfect ascent... And then the freaking belly flop!!! And then, near the ground, it reignites, maneuvers and looks like it might nail the landing, right up until it blows up. Absolutely incredible first flight!!

Noooo the end needs pats of IFT-2 😂 i feel so unsatisfied I have to go watch it

This is amazing. I got tears in my eyes.

Fantastic footage everyone on the NSF team! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being there to bring us these views and document the progress for posterity. If it all works out the way it's supposed to (and the way we hope); this is going to be a brand-new chapter in space flight history!

Please add flight 2 to the end to raise awareness for the people who are unaware of the amazing things going on in Starbase TX. I want to forward this to many non enthusiasts. Go NSF- Go SpaceX

Wow! I'm amazed to see the development and the milestones of the SpaceX Program for the last three years. Thank you, NSF, for producing this video. It was outstanding. ☺

To everyone at NSF, Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for the amazing coverage.

Learning more from your mistakes than from your successes has never been more meaningful. Bravo SpaceX!

Goosebumps galore. Thanks for being (t)here, y'all!

Amazing to see all the progress, and thanks for the coverage for all these years. ❤

What a fun look back. It'll be neat to watch as SS program progresses

NSF and SpaceX y'all rock! Peace

They've come a long way! So exciting to watch them in this journey.

Watching flight 2 brought me back to when i was a kid Watching first flight of shuttle. Amazing

It's been a wild ride, awesome.

Amazing progress! Astonishing people from SpaceX.

Just shows the immense work being done. The progress is so surreal and they are only gonna get faster

crazy how far we came

Been watching since May 27th 2020 for demo 2 wet dress. So first big Starship test I watched live was SN8, it took me a bit to figure out how cool Starship is. Anyway watching this give me chills.

Been watching since CRS-7, I remember thinking Falcon Heavy was awesome BFR seemed absolutely out of reach even then in 2018, yet heres Starship Thanks Space X

we waited two years for the IFT ! wth! time flies FR

You guys showing the SN5 and the IFT-1 made me remember that they had something in common, both destroyed a bit of their Launch Pad😂

we are all on this together watching this becoming a marvel!❤

whats with the random ending?

Am i the only one that cursed when the video stops right before flight 2? Ugh, same feeling as when Rey returned Luke's light saber...cut scene. Gut punch

The first time I saw that SN8 footage from below I thought it was CGI 😂 amazing stuff, can’t wait to see where spacex will take us in the future 🚀

The memories of watching the SN5 hops…. The launch site looks so bare!!

spacex had learnt from the past quite a lot and now it's the future of starship

Crazy to realise there is almost a 2 years gap between SN15 and IFT-1. Time flies! 🚀

Should it really say “now” whenever we get to the end for the date ? A few years from now that’s not going to be the same now. It’s not even there now as it stands 😅

I remember hoppy. And all the other flight tests!

AAAAAh Cliffhanger!!!!

"Water Tower Can Fly!" -Tim Dodd Everyday Astrounaut

Had to come rewatch this one ahead of IFT-3. It’s been a long road, yet we’re still only witnessing the beginning!

In just a few short years Space X has achieved reusable first stage orbital class rocketry. Something that no one else on the planet has yet accomplished

Awesome video NSF, I would love to see a video in the future of a photo of Starhopper then to now time-lapse, just to see how far Starbase has come since Hoppy

Wait, why didn't you show the 2nd flight? It cut at the best part!

Spectacular !!!🎉

great .. so nice to see hoppy fly

Keep up the good work SpaceX someday you can reach your goals of getting to orbit because as Nikolai Tesla said it takes a thousand tries before perfection is achieved. God speed SpaceX humanity is on your shoulders to explore the vast cosmos.

You didn't show IFT-2 at all??? Let down.

Amazing progress they have made

I remember little Starhopper, those were the times

I don't have kids but it must be like watching them grow up!

It's been a wonderful journey.

It's been a long road, getting from there to here... 🎶

The journey continue 💪

Why is the video quality so bad? Is it something wrong with my pc, I remember seeing these launches in very high definition before

Through iteration, to the stars!

Seems like just yesterday but so long ago….. love the videos NSF

Just terrific. Perfect timing for this amazing compilation. I'd almost forgotten the initial 'baby steps.' I was happy all weekend about Starship. Sure both stages were destroyed, but it was clear the amazing people at Space X were making rapid progress. One criticism. Put dates on the clips. and "Now' is not a date. It won't be very long before we're watching these clips as Starship is landing on the moon. I've been rushing out to see a Space X launch from Vandenberg trying to search for "Space X launch live." Dozens and dozens of clips show up in the list, all say 'Live' no dates.

I started watching just before SN9.

SN10, currently the only ship to take off and land twice, OK i stretching the meaning of take off and landing quite a bit.

I’ve been watching since 2019 and I honestly forgot all about the early star hopper tests

I made a video similar to this a while ago, so I got to hand it y'all, great job with this video! Keep up the awesome content, we love seeing what's going on!

Awe man i wish it showed the last launch.

Thank you for the video. Peaceful Skies.

Am I the only one who felt teased by the ending of the video 😂

I would like to see a compilation of ALL SpaceX launches, hehe, thanks, eh, hehe, eh, hehe-hehe

I sure hope it’s true that they’ll launch again just 3 weeks. Can’t wait to see Starship succeed.

It's amazing how much SpaceX's engineering team has learned in such a short time. One can only imagine what SpaceX is doing today, and what they will do tomorrow!

Awesome❤

I really miss Starship belly flops. Hope they will return soon!

I hope I live long enough to see people step foot on mars

I remember the times of SN5. It's all been so insane ever since!

Where is the last part of the video?😟

Amazing.🤩

I want to remind that only 10 years left since "grasshopper" times ;)

Loved this video, especially with the music! However, it became extremely anti-climatic when you stopped short with the best flight test of them all.....IFT2! That should have also been shown more fully with the music building to a crescendo! I really don't get it that you ended the video the way you did, since you posted it 4 days after the launch.

@2:30 was SN15 the Starship that came back with squashed legs?

Thanks!

one small hop for man. one giant leap... well you get the idea.

here since sn8

wished it included flight 2

And to a cover of Alanis Morrisettes "Thank you" no less 😁

Rock & Roll!!!

We are very much living in the future!

.... All this in only 4 or so years?!??!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!! We're going to Mars.

A joy

Great video, can you reupload this with every orbital test, like the end of the clip needs the 2 explosions. Great to share video for how rapid and far the progress has been.

All that in 4 years, wow. From a company who people dismissed and wrote off back in the day. Imagine where SpaceX will be in another 4 years, the mind boggles at the amazement. And no challenging company is on par with SpaceX, they dream and follow their dreams just how life should be.