WATCH: SpaceX catches Starship rocket booster back at launch pad, but spacecraft destroyed

#spacex #starship #space

[cerioo]

In italy we say: "the surgery was successful, but the patient died".

[muhammadrizqanilmi]

Despite ship 33 loss, booster catch still amazing and it's much smoother than before.

[PJL]

Think I saw something similar in a Godzilla movie

[Shipspotting_Vietnam]

Stuning marvel of engineering - hat offs!

[PJL]

What… the… now that’s pretty fricken’ cool

[GoldenTV]

The ship was the first of Version 2 where thousands of internal changes were made. New flap design, flight computers, vacuum jacketed lines, batteries, and a ton of other things.

Confident they'll have this issue fixed by Flight 8

[Daishinyuu]

Booster ticket is more expensive than starship ticket.

Reporter : Do you want to ride the starship?
Me:No. i just want to ride the booster.

[ericbennett]

A lot of astrophysicists in this comment section that would never be able to achieve a fraction of a percent of what this man and this company is doing lol

[macaroon]

So why don't we see the ship explode?

[MStreppelhoff]

The Boostercatch was great. That they lost the starship is sad but thats part of the testing..

[NapierNimbus]

The booster return and catch is amazing

[dpw]

Perfect metaphor for what this guy is about. If not for the danger, visually beautiful.

[verde]

The spacecraft is the important bit, boosters are expendable.

[GloomBoy]

just saying this looks cartoony af.... but I need to be here!

[jamalrey]

Geroge Carlin would love this SOFT LANGUAGE: "Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn" You flucking mean What

[taurusx]

U can look at the starship exploding or u can look at this remarkable feat of physics by capturing a booster rocket, like if it was a toy, there is a quickness to gloat and criticize because it's Musk, but such a feat would be humanly imaginable a year ago, even now

[tlak]

No longer SpaceX, it's space firecrackers.

[emtemple]

SpaceX caught the booster, but Starship was a complete loss.

[insertname]

So that was what Trump was talking about

[CandorEffect]

Epic! That didn't even look real...