American Thinker:
Video footage of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon space capsule exploding on the ground during an April 20 test at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida was leaked online by the next day. Yet SpaceX and NASA are unacceptably dragging their feet in explaining this taxpayer-financed fiasco in the American space program and thus continued SpaceX’s worrisome undue influence on government.
SpaceX’s April 20 press release with its “anomaly” euphemism was immediately contradicted by images provided by a photographer from a local Florida publication covering a surfing festival on a beach near Cape Canaveral. In the telling photos, toxic reddish smoke clouds billow upwards from the space center. The accident is a poor omen for the Crew Dragon, in which NASA wants to transport astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
Such visual evidence helped prompt an April 24 editorial from the OrlandoSentinel, a Florida newspaper that often covers the space program in the region. “‘Anomaly’ is a vague industry buzzword that tells the public zilch about what happened to a program that the federal government is spending billions on,” the editorial criticized. “There’s been no press conference. No opportunity to ask questions of company executives. No detailed news releases. No photos or video of the damage.” more here
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49 minutes ago . . . Jefferson City, Missouri, has taken a direct hit from a tornado and suffered possibly catastrophic damage.
Easy government money tends to lower the worry of failure in high risk ventures and with that comes a little more sloppiness. “Oh well, back to the drawing board”
Spaceflight, the single most dangerous form of transportation….. by the numbers.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
“This post has been updated to replace the original video, which was removed from Twitter.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/video-spacex-crew-dragon-spacecraft-for-nasa-appears-to-explode-during-test-2019-4
…talk about “undue influence”…
All this time, in the MSM, we have been lead to believe that SpaceX was entirely privately funded. Now it seems it has been yet another Obama-era boondoggle to transfer tax money to one of Berry’s supporters. Just like Tesla, and a dozen other companies.
My 2019 predictions on iotw had a SpaceX capsule exploding on the tarmac.
Locodamus
Explode? Nah, that’ll buff right out.