million pounds. they will be moving or combining their thrust at the same time, we will reach what they call maximum q. and that s when the load, the shaking, the vibrating and the attention will hit maximum level. if it starts to come apart, that is when it could happen. but everything has to work perfectly. 27 engines working together to lift it up. we have canceled shuttle launches, and then you have to go back to apollo. the last one was in 1973. and now this is an unmanned
humans leaving earth. it s going to take rockets leaving low-earth orbit. it s going to take rockets like that to accomplish that. that will be the apollo experience for this generation. tom, i want to ask you, i want go ahead. i just don t want our viewers to miss this. we made a decision to show this, and we re not showing the white house press briefing. i d love for people to tweet me and tell me whether they think that was the right decision. i want to show everybody this launch again. let s rerack it and let s show everybody history in the making. falcon heavy. [ cheering ] [ cheering ]
t plus 30 seconds if you can hear me over the cheering, falcon heavy heading to space on our test flight, building on the history of saturn 5 apollo, returning to interplanetary mission. we re getting ready to throttle down. [ cheering ] supersocvehicle supersonic. you heard the callout. vehicle is supersonic. side boosters are now throttling back up to full power. reached maximum dynamic pressure. we re past max q, the period of maximum loads on the vehicle. next up we ll be waiting for the
through all of that school, all of that difficult learning. this is the payoff. you re in an invigorating and hold on, guys. i want to they re flipping between a bunch of feeds here. for people who didn t see this, or didn t know what they were going to see, the rocket went into a vertical position and came down. it extended legs and it came down right on the launchpad that it was supposed to. on the landing pad that it was supposed to. i mean, if nothing else happened, that would have been amazing just to watch. absolutely. steve can t hear you, ali, but i think we concur, this is an amazing engineering feat. when i say steve teaches aeronotical engineering, aerospace engineering, he teaches ph.d. students. for these people, this is an amazing accomplishment. is this their apollo mission in many ways? it opens the door for what can become the apollo experience for this generation. what we re going to see next is