Starship Gazer with the first ever Starship Super Heavy full stack. 8/6/21 8:45 am. Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon” was playing on the launch complex loudspeakers.
About Starship Gazer
Updated 8/6/22:
Since permanently moving to Brownsville, Texas on March 12th 2021 I have visited SpaceX Starbase, TX a total of 218 different days, taken over 300,000 photographs, and recorded over 400 hours of 4K and 8K ultra high quality video footage. I have also Live streamed at Starbase for several hundred hrs on YouTube with professional telephoto camera gear providing incredible professional quality live close up views. I have been a huge SpaceX supporter and fan since they very first began in 2002 because of their primary mission being to make Earth life multiplanetary. I really started studying the importance of humanity becoming multiplanetary back in the late 1990’s right around the time the Mars society was founded. Dr. Robert Zubrin’s 1996 book “The Case for Mars” was a big inspiration for me and I’ve been extremely interested since then. I'm a 42 year old single guy and plan to cover the Starship program for the next several decades through the construction of the first Martian city. I currently operate 3 different camera systems to provide the highest possible quality Starship and Starbase photos and video footage. I use a top quality camera cell phone (S23 Ultra), a high end super zoom camera (Nikon P1000), and a state of the art top of the line professional full frame mirrorless camera (Canon R5) with three top quality RF telephoto lenses and two extenders. All of my content is stored on cloud storage services online and on dual physical hard drives in a fireproof safe to preserve and archive for future generations. You are directly contributing to helping create and protect this historical content for the future by supporting me with financial donations and monthly memberships. Thank you so much!
A little more about me personally:
I completed an 8 year contract with the United States Marine Corps from 9/98 to 9/06. 4 years active duty and 4 years reserves. I was honorably discharged. I was deployed to active combat zones during a 6 month Western Pacific deployment. I participated in 4 different combat operations. I worked Logistics in the Marines for a AV-8B Harrier II aviation combat squadron. I was the top of my class at logistics school and earned a meritorious promotion. I had a secret security clearance. I am a member of the VFW. I exited the Marines to attend college full time. I completed 3 yrs/90 credit hours studying Chemical Engineering. I earned an Associate's Degree in Pre-Engineering with high honors, but ran out of money and funding sources to finish my Chemical Engineering Bachelors Degree. I was in a bad car accident in late 2004, caused by a UPS truck driver, that severely disrupted things. I'm originally from the awesome state of Colorado. I also lived in Florida for 13 years and have attended around 35 rocket launches live in person and have watched many hundreds of launches live online. I was an annual pass holder at Kennedy Space Center. I built and launched around 50 kit and home designed model/mid power rockets when I was a kid in middle school and high school and was a member of the local rocketry club. I have tandem sky dived from 12,500 feet AGL. I'm a PADI certified open water scuba diver. I was on the swim team in high school. I also love reading, coffee, all things sci fi, astronomy, looking for aliens, music, mountain biking, fishing, shooting, backpacking, skiing and computer games (EVE Online and RTS mostly). I've spent the past 15 years working about 10 different jobs of all types. I am very passionate about advancing scientific knowledge to the very limits and especially about the need for humanity to become multiplanetary as soon as possible. We don't know when the next global extinction level event will occur and the clock is ticking.
-Ryan
Starship Gazer