The largest and most powerful rocket ever built blasted off from Texas but blew up within minutes, in a test flight that its makers, SpaceX, hope will be the first step on a human journey to Mars.
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After a cancelled launch earlier this week due to a pressurisation issue, the 120-metre Starship rocket system took off at 8.33am local time on Thursday. It gathered speed but then started to spin at altitude before exploding about four minutes after leaving the ground. It appeared that the two sections of the rocket system – the booster and cruise vessel – were unable to separate properly after takeoff, possibly causing the spacecraft to fail.
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No mission of Elan Musk is going to successful.He is just selling dreams.
Wow, a real news clip that doesn't have some obnoxious under achiever news caster giving bland commentary over it
It hit the firmament. That’s what caused it to explode.
Can't live right on Earth..toxic patriarchy, misogyny, racism, caste system, colorism, climate change…
Haaahahaha the F15 beat it in altitude in 1975 lol, what a success that it got off the launh pad -.-
That much power to just launch a joke off a launchpad, see how they didn't dare put rocket engines in that hunk of metal?!
They just put a rocket up the "startship" rear.
Learning curve like not to put a hunk of metal with static flaps on top of a rocket meant to escape earth's atmosphere, Elon Musk will reach MARS, Material Annyingly Reaching Space.
How eco friendly
Just as she says, "everything after clearing the tower is icing on the cake." The whole thing blows up. This woman is an absolute jinx!
Absolutely surreal watching this thing tear apart the concrete pad, hoist tself into the air and climb through maxQ all while periodically blowing up engines and scattering pieces of itself left and right. What a total juggernaut of a rocket.
Maybe that twitter bird was angry
Booster 7 and ship 24, first test of starship and super heavy booster. Epic
Elon is alien a secret spy of martians came here to end humanity.
Needs to be more pointy
Rest in Pieces Launch Pad
Hates aside thats the heavies rocket ever to even launch and be able to fly, it may have not left the atmosphere but i sure did fly
К сведению, Россия сделала в последнее время 100 успешных пусков подряд с трёх ракетодромов. Пошлите Маска в Физико-математический лицей № 239 Санкт-Петербурга. Лицей, будет набирать новых учеников. Ну там где Григ. Перельман учился. Хорошо бы И. Маску своих инженеров туда направить. Потом они должны стать призерами математической Олимпиады города, потом области, потом может региональных олимпиад. Ну хотя бы в десятку лучших среди школьников попасть. О всероссийских олимпиадах не говорим вообще. Это недостижимый потолок для "учёных" из США. А когда вернутся в Space X , поразмыслят лет 10 и что – нибудь полетит. Может быть
Fail
Hahahaha… “we gotta work on landing a little-bit” … such an expensive and unnecessary waste! … and have they improved since???
. Please.
Elon musk is not afraid to fail
this is what you get Elon for being in the Right spectrum
Still was a great success, now spacex knows it can clear the pad, they can work on the flight capabilities. government news outlets love to make everything sound over dramatic
If the bar is low, it's easy to claim success.
Taxpayer money at work
Rockets, moon shots
Spend it on the have-not's
Marvin Gaye and James Nyx (1971)