SpaceX l Starship rocket booster explodes after blast off

SpaceX’s spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, reached space for the first time on Saturday but was seen in footage experiencing a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly'.

The two-stage rocket ship blasted off from the Elon Musk-owned company’s Starbase launch site near Boca Chica in Texas on a planned 90-minute uncrewed flight into space. The 120-metre Starship rocket system, the most powerful ever built, failed a first flight test in April, when the spacecraft pulverised the launchpad during lift-off and then exploded at altitude.

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[jasonuren]

Rapid unscheduled disassembly
That's one way of putting it 😂

[Tygerlillybutterflies]

Yet it still didn’t break the firmament like they expected.

[StelioKontos-wkkm]

NOTHING can surpass the firmament. NOTHING

[junyun]

Traditional rocket development is to test each component thoroughly before the 1st launch. SpaceX uses a rapid prototyping approach:
1 Launch as fast as possible
2 Fix bugs found in last launch
3 Repeat steps 1 and 2 until no more bugs

[cosmicinsane]

That booster explosion was epic. Can’t believe it ran through boost phase flawlessly apparently even the 2nd stage until the last minute.

[peaceyteavo]

A somewhat downbeat headline for what was a very successful test

[Kylie_world]

It hit the firmament lol yal can’t go pass the most high

[blankblank]

Rapid Unscheduled Dis-Assembly is rocket science for blew up.

[colandrea]

The rocket got stuck in the… hmmm… I wonder what?

[bengurion]

Exploded after separation, not after “blast off”, a huge difference!

[spankflaps]

“Would it help if I got out and pushed?”
~ (Princess Leia)

[terror]

I don't understand how people say it was a success 😅...
The success of failure??? 🙈

[RD-yjzj]

You would think someone would roll out the Saturn V rocket blueprints that worked for all six Apollo moon landings.

[MrPigeonnn]

My coworker showed us this and used it as proof that we've never landed on the moon.

[ajalanis]

I felt that in my house. The whole house shook. I live in brownsville texas wherw spacex is located.

[rokenastxcrew]

How come they lose connection and they had been to the moon and tv streamed?

[dec]

I was there for the launch. What an amazing experience. You could feel the vibration from the rocket!! 🚀

[joshualeniger]

The text tho..."of its largest rocket" should read biggest most powerful rocket ever launched by far by anyone...

[orlandorosado]

"Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" LOL

[MsPatti]

Fantastic achievement on only the 2nd TEST flight. Headlines always do a success story down.