Awesome - I missed that, thanks for linking the video!
I’m just going to say - that test looked so Kerbal that it could have been from KSP2. A hop from one platform to another with a water tower / a rocket missing its top.
What amazing times!
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Man I love this geek. I absolutely loathe the billionaire class, but Elon gets a pass from me.
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Hyped.
If half of what he mentioned actually works in one of the first five tries it will be awesome.
Launch abort test in 1 minute!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhrkdHshb3E
Sorry for short notice. I am in at work.
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just watched it, damn impressive, but couldn’t get Kerbal space program out of my head whilst watching the launch 
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Thanks for the heads-up, I just cought the live stream a couple seconds before the abort 
The Falcon breaking up was quite a view!
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Looks like landing stage took a swim today.
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Yeah, although I read it might still be salvagable.
It was the thrid or fourth flight of that booster, very impressive.
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Live launch. T - 5 min
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Rats, “Launch abort for engine high power”, whatever that means.
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Aborted for COVID19! Earth is in isolation mode. Nothing goes in or out. 
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When I saw that reason, I suspect it is related to an engine over thrusting. I am putting my money on that
yeah, that’s what she said! badabum tishhh!
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Retry launched, but first stage wasn’t recovered.
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Fifth flight of the stage…I assume there are limits to the reusability which need to be explored and extended.
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It depends on why it failed. They have had first flight boosters not make it back, too.
One of the rocket’s nine first stage engines shut down prematurely around 2 minutes, 22 seconds, after liftoff from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an event visible in a view from a camera streaming live video from the Falcon 9 as it climbed into the upper atmosphere.
Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, confirmed in a tweet that the Falcon 9 experienced an “early engine shutdown on ascent, but it didn’t affect orbit insertion.”
The rocket’s other Merlin engines fired a little longer to compensate for the loss of thrust. The rest of the Falcon 9’s climb into orbit appeared to go according to plan, and the upper stage deployed the 60 Starlink satellites into orbit around 15 minutes after liftoff.
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