Not much to see in this video, since it occurred at night and was shrouded by smoke and vapor. Presumably better video will emerge. But the StarHopper seems to have done what it set out to do… it went up, it translated, it came down and it didn’t kerplat or kerplode.
A quarter century ago I went out of my mind watching the Delta Clipper do this. Now, it’s more “Huh. Well, that’s good.” Because one gets used to seeing amazing things, I suppose, which explains why people stopped caring about Apollo and didn’t string up LBJ when Apollo was strangled in the crib. Fortunately for SpaceX, they don’t need to keep the masses entertained… they just need to keep Elon Musk entertained. And hopefully he won’t be done being entertained until there is a self-sustaining space infrastructure in place.