Elon Musk’s SpaceX Rocket Explodes 4 Minutes After Take-Off

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Engineers at SpaceX cheered as their $3 billion Starship rocket headed into outer space. However, four minutes into the take-off, disaster struck. The rocket started to flip and then exploded mid-air. Elon Musk was in a command center watching his $3 billion rocket go up in smoke. However, he's putting a positive spin on the failure, tweeting "Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months." Inside Edition's Les Trent has more.
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I'm now always going to refer a crash/explosion as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly"

OfficiallySnek
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For everyone who isn’t into the space industry; this is the most powerful rocket to ever lift off.

andrewdoesyt
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For those wondering, this is very common in the space industry, Most new rockets don't work first try.
SpaceX just need to prove it could get it could get past the launch mount.

cloudyclaw
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One of the heaviest objects just launched in a practice run. Practice makes perfection.

ployter
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This was one of the biggest successes to ever happen in the space industry.

nathanmitchell
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This wasn’t a failure at all. Inside edition please research more thoroughly.
It was said before the launch that the starship only had a 50% chance of reaching orbit.
SpaceX will take the tremendous amount they learned from this test flight and use it to rapidly build and improve many new starships.

graand_intellect
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Even though it exploded it was super cool to watch it launch and disintegrate on the livestream hopefully the Starship can do a full test flight this year that would be awesome

GEU
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“Rapid unscheduled disassembly” is the fanciest way I’ve ever heard “It fell apart” put into words

Truckerintheusa
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This review of the situation did so little justice to what was achieved today, it may seem like a failure but a lot of critical data was gathered today make this a monumental success - especially if you've been following the starships journey in development.

fsinthechat
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I thought the orbital test flight was too early, almost seems like its rushed. The fact that the whole rig manage to launch and last 4 minutes is very impressive.

imnotmark
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it's not a failure. But it's heaviest rocket they could lift a ton up in the air. it's pretty good... it can't be done cheaper. it could carried 100 people in that rocket.

iratemusic
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They call it a "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" because they blew it up on purpose after the booster wouldn't separate from the Starship.

DjSharperimage
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For everyone who isn’t into the space industry; this is a rocket

Mimi-ijke
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Let’s be honest here, it hit the firmament.

AustinAdams
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You literally could refer to every explosion in history as a rapid unscheduled disassembly 😅

AllOfTheHallows
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It was a autonomous scuttle charge that blow up the rocket (the abort system)

It was put there to make sure that if something were to go wrong, the massive rocket doesn't end up going intercontinental in hitting something like a city

Nighthawk-
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To those thinking this was a failure. This was not at all a failure. The part where they said people groaned, was not true. That was the start of everyone cheering. They managed to gather critical data from this. This launch was an extreme success! And it went much better than was anticipated.

weirdthings
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"Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly"
Sounds like something Putin would say 😂

danko
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It was only the separation that failed wasn’t it? The launch etc was good but they purposely returned the rocket, when they did that the booster was meant to come off the main front rocket. Kind of a big thing to leave out in a news report

t-rex
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Im so happy to have seen this thing launch today. I think it was a spectacular event overall. Lots of data goes a long way towards making future launches better. Congrats to Elon musk and the Spacex team.

MrPrice-kscv