Elon, your rocket just blew up. pic.twitter.com/EZAVN4cVCd
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) May 29, 2020
You know, this happened to NASA a few times (or maybe the Air Force; NASA used AF missiles for Mercury and Gemini; the Saturn boosters were the first built for heavy payload lifting), but never with a booster they used to lift astronauts until the Challenger disaster.
Elon Musk has now exploded 4 of his Starship rocket prototypes. If he explodes 2 more he gets the 7th one free— Chloé Cunha (@ChloeCunha) May 29, 2020
I'm just sayin', we're pretty much worked the kinks out of this technology, I would have thought. Seems to me the idea was to now offload the capital costs to private capital, the government having done the heavy lifting of getting the rocket to work in the first place. You know, design, construction, etc.
Imagine being a SpaceX/NASA astronaut that’s scheduled for lift off tomorrow and watching this happen today. That’s gotta be a different kind of anxiety.
— Pablo Escobarner (blue check) (@PabloEscobarner) May 29, 2020
(this is a prototype rocket and not the one in use tomorrow, but still 🥴) pic.twitter.com/bdmROuNETN
I mean, they were always flying on the lowest bid, but still...
Time for Elon Musk to admit he sucks at rockets. Maybe go work at a Costco.— comrade ahli cake ☭ (@ahlicake) May 29, 2020
Apparently it still is rocket science!
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