Shadowing Practice: "SHIP GOES HERE" for flight 14 - Starbase Summary - Learn English Speaking with Video

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You know what time it is, folks.

It's time to watch a video and talk about what's happening out at Starbase, because it's another Starbase summary.

This time coming up, we're going to see Booster 21 headed out to the pad.

Of course, that's for flight.

We've also got parts of Booster 21.

This is an engine that we previously spotted installed on 21.

Out at McGregor and Ship 41 getting some Starlink satellites, that box in the background that's going to get hooked up to the crane.

You shove it full of Star Lynx, you lift it up, you shove the Star Lynx into the booster, into the booster, into the ship, for your launch.

But that's the deal, Starbase summary, let's get into it.

It's got some trucks, like Hotshot -style trucks there, delivering two aft flaps.

Those are not made at Starbase, they're made off somewhere else, and then hauled into Starbase.

They are delightfully sized for the flatbed.

There was like a 40 -foot flatbed.

But, oh, they stick off the back just a little bit.

That's fine.

They probably don't weigh that much.

I guess they're stainless steel, so they're not aluminum.

I guess they'd be lighter if they were aluminum.

But in any event, we catch those coming and going every now and then.

Looks like they just pulled over to figure out where they're supposed to go next.

And I imagine they're going to turn into Remedios here.

Surprised they don't have a big sign that says, like, you know, flap deliveries here.

Truss deliveries, like pad one truss deliveries, go this way.

What is this?

well this is why we held the video by a couple days

because previously we had the flaps then we had this delivery of picnic tables

that are strapped down that i can't say

that i've ever seen picnic tables being transported that way before

but now we have we can check

that off our list back in the background there

that box looking structure that says like 108 etc etc on it And parts of the launch mount for Pad 1.

Pad 1 flame bucket pipe lifted.

I mean, as I always say, only the most compelling, interesting footage here on the Starbase summaries.

Completeness, that's what we shoot for.

We shoot for making sure you get all the footage, not just a couple big shots that are interesting.

It's all the little fiddly stuff that has to happen at Starbase to make this launch cadence work.

got some bridge crane work in the background you can see

the bridge crane uh sort of going across the middle there

and i guess they are working on installing this thing got

some lifts up got a non -bridge crane moving around in

the background there you could just barely see into the uh

yeah here you go um into mega bay 2 in the background of

that shot here looking through here you can see a little bit better

but mega bay 2 is very much being closed off by

the back doors of the gigabay here this this image messes

with my mind it looks like two images put together

but the top of the gigabay there

or the panel panels on the gigabay are kind of sky colored

and it scroll back and look at that

because it looks like two pictures

but it's not it's just the gigabay looks like sky

and it's a very hard cut off

and even the important thing here is the white box

that we see in the background there just a little sliver of it getting rigged up to

that load spreader

that is the starlink in just like the reverse pez dispenser

right you put all the satellites in there you lift them up

and then you uh sort of fix it attach it to the ship it doesn't carry all the load

but it just fixes it in position then you load all

the stuff over there we got the nose cone haul every now

and then it's tough to really keep up with what's going in there

but uh here we've got one on the loose ship 44's nose cone came out

and then went all the way back around her meteos i think

and it's going to scoot into the mega bays then we're

going to jump all the way over to the hotel this is from margaritaville

and we've got a barge coming in barge has some structures on it

that look ship shaped booster shaped not like ship like an ocean ship

but uh star ship i guess we could say got some stands being moved around here

so there is a booster work stand a little bit close up of what we just saw in

that barge man that thing is shiny

that thing looks like it's hardly been by the coast for any amount of time just again

delivering all that tooling getting things set up so

that they can work on boosters

and ships more efficiently without making you know free -range grass

-fed scraffle scap scraffle scaffold what did i call it last time just having structures

that are reusable in the exact configuration they need got some

sunset shots here some pad too with the old cyber security truck

that's that's get it it's physical security

but it's a cyber suit whatever sorry it's a summary you

never know what you're gonna get uh working on the cable

connection point for the chopsticks there okay oh this says these clips are sped up

but it's very slow chopstick movements I wonder what was going

on there yeah look you can see it rotating just a little bit both pieces rotating together usually happens

when you're like moving something lifting a ship or a booster

or something I guess just getting them into position

but huh get the lights you got some folks watching it on the lift there with the cameras

and the drop stabilizers and that sort of stuff maybe they made some changes

and they wanted to uh make sure their changes were all good

so we're going to jump over to mcgregor really quickly it's

raptor 134 trust us we saw from other angles uh

that strap blocking the three there

but previously we had seen this engine installed on the booster booster 21

and i guess they pulled that engine

and sent it out to mcgregor for some looks or testing

or something you can see the drones scroll back did you

see the drones flying around that's where unidentified aerial phenomenon come from

because little dancing lights sped up around the uh outside of the drones it's not an unidentified aerial phenomenon

if you can identify it and and that one was a drone

that in the background that's a star see see in the

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background um caesar's camera picks up the stars in the background

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but we got some grid fins

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and hot staging ring action there a little bit of a hazy night

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when this was happening and the flashing lights the blinking lights down below aren't helping matters

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but it's all good there's the very bottom of the booster as well the bottom of the chines disconnects remember

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that has two disconnects you can see one there

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and then see around the right hand side the other disconnect locks

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and locks in the methane disconnects

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that are separated on the pad now very cool like hold up your thumb

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and put your thumb over those lights but it doesn't really help when it's a little bit hazy out.

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The bloom from the flashing lights just sort of goes everywhere.

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So here are SPMT, or two SPMTs working as one here.

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Got the booster transport stand on top of it.

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Why?

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Well, because it's transporting a booster.

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There you go.

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Again, the same sort of thing, like we saw that work stand coming off the barge.

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This is something that is designed to have everything you need to move a booster around.

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It's got the points where you can get it on the SPMT, arrangement it's got those you see the big thick pylons going down

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so you can set it down and get the boosters

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or the spmt's out from below it hit your speed zero

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i feel like it should say your speed 0 .1

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or something like one i don't know how low

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that goes oh they should race the spmt past the speed limit sign to see

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if they can get it to read like one or two

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while they're carrying a ship or a booster anyways um also has all the clamps

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and fixtures and attach points uh the same as the

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or mostly the same as the launch mount over there

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so this is just the transport device to allow you to

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hook up a booster keep it all pressurized stabilized etc etc

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on the spmt's just a little bit of clearance underneath those uh those pylons what is that

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you figured i guess they have to be out in the weather anyways

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but somebody should have turned off the grass watering while

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that was happening i think huh this looks like a time

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lapse we've jumped back in time just a little bit here

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so we've got uh folks sort of backed off we had the closer up camera

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and then we had the backed off sort of time lapse camera

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and now we're jumping forward up to the highway side as

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this thing rolls out there we go a little bit of a close -up as it rolls past highway good deal

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i did ask like i asked in the previous video like hey should we show every rollout

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but this is this is a flight rollout i guess hopefully knock on wood this is the booster rolling out

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so that it can actually fly

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so those are specifically important ones to cover not just every roll to Massey's

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and stuff like that

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but we're gonna get this from every single angle look here

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this got Max's name on it looks like Max was out

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at the arrival site we saw Caesar's name over where it

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came out of the production site we had the highway robotic

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cameras as it went by highway sort of the midpoint not quite

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but close enough then we had Max stationed on this end

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look at the SPMT see how the SPMT is dealing with the ramp there yeah

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and then the back wheels are picking up a little bit that's still cool how

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that works it is the whole team we've got quite a

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few people out there like I said preparing for flight

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so we've got more than normal folks out there like Dan

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and Jerry have been doing a lot of preparation work behind

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the scenes you don't see their names in the credits on the videos there most of the time

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but they are doing critical work fixing fixing sites and connections

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and repairing cabling and I guess we didn't put the coyote attack in here.

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Tell me in the comments if we should include this.

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There was a coyote that came after one of our cables.

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I think somebody had greasy McDonald's fingers

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when they were handling a new cable that was being installed because that coyote thought that it was something to eat.

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We should put that out to the members or something.

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I thought we might put it in.

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Wait, maybe it's going to show up at the end of the video.

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I don't know.

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I thought I gave approval to put the coyote attack in this, but in any event,

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booster gets lifted stars in the universe wheel in the background really it's the earth spinning

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but whatever this poetical booster goes down onto the launch mount

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and hopefully that is for flight

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because we're rapidly coming up on these dates right currently uh spacex saying they're targeting monday the 28th

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and i'm talking to you on the 23rd right now i guess you'll see this video tonight

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but uh we are rapidly coming up on the date

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that spacex was targeting still not all the approvals and stuff like

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that in place it seems

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but it seems like there's a high confidence hey grid fin testing

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that everything will get sorted out here as they march toward the 28th

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but the 28th

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or shortly thereafter is sort of what we're looking at what

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we got oh there was a person for scale moment i'm

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like why are we following this person in the red shirt next to the

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but it was

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because it was for scale where's my coyote attack i'm gonna

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speak with the editor about the coyote attack in any event

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folks hey thanks for watching that's me up at the top there john you might be listening in another language

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if we got marty in this one as well appreciate the whole team that's out there

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but it's a starbase summer i watch the video i tell

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you what i see you tell me what i missed down in the comments

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and i appreciate y 'all watching we'll catch y 'all later

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 189 sentences and 2204 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:37. The speaker talks fast, about 190 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
booster noun	/ˈbustɚ/	Something that boosts.
folk noun	/foʊk/	People, persons.
summary noun	/ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/	An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
drone noun	/dɹoʊn/	A male hymenopteran (ant, bee, hornet, or wasp), whose sole primary function is to mate with the queen.
crane noun	/kɹeɪn/	Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
barge noun	/ˈbɑɹd͡ʒ/	A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
mount verb	/maʊnt/	To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
installed verb	/ɪnˈstɔːld/	readied for use
mega adjective	/ˈmɛɡə/	Very large.
flash verb	/flæʃ/	To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
angle noun	/ˈæŋ.ɡəl/	A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
grass noun	/ɡɹɑːs/	Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as…
hook noun	/hʊk/	A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
rapidly adverb	/ˈɹæpɪdli/	With speed; in a rapid manner.
satellite noun	/ˈsætəlaɪ̯t/	A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
back off verb		To move backwards away from something.
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.
roll out verb		To deploy or release (a new film or software, etc.); to launch (a product or service), especially in a gradual fashion across multiple regions.
close off verb		To seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter.
close up verb	/kləʊzˈʌp/	To close (remove a gap) completely or fully.
come off verb		To become detached.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
come up verb		To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are not made · are delightfully sized · are strapped
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've ever seen · it's hardly been · we've jumped

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 43 contractions and reduced forms, such as they're, we're, we've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thumb /ˈθʌm/, thick /θɪk/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, thereafter /ˌðɛɹˈæf.tɚ/, methane /ˈmiːθeɪn/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: flash /flæʃ/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, shortly /ˈʃɔɹtli/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, configuration /kənˌfɪɡ.əˈɹeɪ̯.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: phenomenon /fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/, aluminum /əˈlu.mɪ.nəm/, unidentified /ˌʌnaɪˈdɛntɪfaɪd/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, configuration /kənˌfɪɡ.əˈɹeɪ̯.ʃən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like booster, folk, summary.

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