Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.

This time, wreckage from the latest explosion was seen streaming from the skies over Florida. It was not immediately known whether the spacecraft’s self-destruct system had kicked in to blow it up.

  • @diolma
    link
    English
    132 days ago

    There was a time when I would have been really bummed out about this.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      92 days ago

      Did it end in 2022, when there was supposed to be a base on Mars?
      Or did it end 2024 when there was supposed to be manned flights to Mars?
      Elon Musk is a fraud, which has been evident since at least 2017.

      https://elonmusk.today/

      Elon Musk claimed summon would be able to autonomously drive a Tesla across country to pick up its owner in about two years. (1/6/2016)