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SpaceX on Thursday tested its next-generation rocket designed for missions to the moon and Mars, ending in an explosion amid cheers from employees who gathered to watch a livestream of the launch.
The uncrewed rocket ignited and blasted skyward for about four minutes, but the separation of the booster from the spacecraft that sat atop the rocket appeared to fail. Some of the booster’s 33 engines appeared to not ignite.
The rocket then began to tumble downward before exploding.
The cause of the explosion and failure of the separation was not immediately known, though the rocket’s blast-off already meant the test was considered by the company to be a success. More
And nobody died, it was indeed successful. You can expect a rapid unscheduled disassembly on rare occasions. If it was easy, liberals would do it. And it’s par for the course, slamming anything Musk…
Today is 4/20
It was designed to go up in smoke…
I’m disappointed that the Starship blew up, but delighted that the enormously powerful first stage launch was a success. Wow. Just, wow. Given SpaceX’s obsession with instrumentation and telemetry, I’m hopeful that the reason for the rapid unscheduled disassembly will be understood and the problem corrected in short order. Good luck on the next test flight, Mr. Musk!
“If only you believe in miracles baby…
We could exist on the stars
It’d be so easy”
-Starship
Cancel NASA and contract launches under Space Force/SpaceX.
The Rocket was unladen.
The Capsule, had a seperation occurred, was schedule to fall into the Pacific.
The 5 or 6 engines that didn’t fire may have prevented it from reaching the required altitude for seperation so it is possible they aborted the seperation and hit the Abort but only after the two rotation tests were fired.
Elon said as long as it cleared the Tower and didn’t take out the Launch Pad Site he would consider it a successful test.
Of course there are 33 engines.
it blowed up real good
^^^ I remember that! HAHAHAHA!
I’m a party pooper, we’re not living anywhere in this solar system but earth. I don’t see the purpose or reason behind going to Mars. If you can’t get along here, you aren’t getting along anywhere. It’s not in God’s plan Elon. Scriptures say so and you aren’t God.
Living here yes
Visiting elsewhere half-right half-wrong
Reason and Purpose?
Money
Transporting to another world?
Never happen.
This is the Ship.
PS: I figured it out myself, just like I solved the ‘what is a bitcoin number’ mystery.
PPS: Remeber This? Remember That This Is The Ship.
BIG G
Elon himself ave the expected results at 50/50%.
Now lets see what a Partnership of GM/Ford/What the F Chrysler calls itself can launch, Eh?
No Commie dogs were suffocated either.
RIP Laika
Please… It clearly departed controlled flight. I’m sure the RSO turned the destruct key when it approached the edge of it’s flight corridor.
I’m kind of mixed on todays test. I’m old school , watched all the moon stuff back in the 60’s and 70’s. We had setbacks, I can’t call this exercise today a “success”.. maybe more of a ‘participation ribbon event’. Throwing stuff up against the barn wall to see what works and what sticks, is no way to get to the moon. We did that a half a century ago with less engine and almost zero computing input. Hard work, ingenuity, and Made in the USA was the efforts of Neil, Buzz, Gordo, Glenn and all of Mercury 7, and Apollo programs. I’ll take a Saturn 5 launch to the moon, any day over this. Clapping bc it blew up higher than they thought it would go, is childish, in my books.
… must have had separation anxiety.
btw, anyone ever catch any of the NASA ‘launch pad anomalies’ back in their heyday? can’t wait to see what all these naysayer posters say when the first humans die in a launch …. oh, wait … yeah, we’ve been there, done that.
life is risk. no one gets out alive.
maybe we should all just stagnate & die, wallowing in self-pity.
The reality for me is that we (all of us, really) tried something and it didn’t work perfectly. I don’t believe in the word failed here.
We learned what didn’t work right and tried again, and again and again.
This is the United States. Freedom to fail and try again and again is what has made us the great nation we are.
I won’t go into the recent setbacks in politics, etc.
I would highly recommend the series “The Foods that Made America Great”. It is inspiring how entrepreneurship worked and worked and worked to become successes in our food industry.