he wasn't on it.

for Musk

from the universe?

What was on this rocket for the payload ? Where is/was it going ?

I heard on NPR that it was as tall or taller than the Empire State Building.

But it was the engine tube.

no payload at all. This was just another test launch as they keep making design improvements, then they launch to see what happens.
Nothing crashed. They have parameters that must be all met regarding safety, and one or more of those conditions were outside the acceptable envelope for landing in the catch arms. It's a set of guidelines agreed on with the FAA and others to ensure public safety. I don't think anyone knows the exact reason right now why they chose no-go for the catch. Both the booster and the starship vehicle made programmed soft landings in the water as designed.
The starship vehicle did explode after it landed in the water though, which happens when you do that to a rocket on purpose. Last I saw, the first stage booster was actually still floating on it's own so they are going to have to either sink it, or pluck it out of the water somehow.

SpaceX’s latest test flight of its Starship vehicle on Tuesday got off to a sobering start as the company was unable to recover the enormous booster stage of the rocket, the most powerful ever built. But about an hour later, the vehicle’s upper stage was more successful as it completed a daring maneuver to splash down in the Indian Ocean.

It’s not unusual for a test launch to be unable to achieve all of its goals. But after a successful test flight last month, SpaceX’s most recent attempt experienced a partial setback that suggests the company has some work left to do as it pursues rapid reusability of the vehicle. That is a prerequisite for the pipe dream of the company’s founder, Elon Musk, of sending people to Mars in the years ahead.

“Development testing, by definition, is unpredictable,” said Jessica Anderson, a manufacturing engineering manager at SpaceX and one host of the live broadcast. “But that is exactly why we test.”

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hoped it would get them both 😀

But Melmo doesn't seem interested in going up on a Space X rocket. I guess he's too chicken shit. I would be too, but I'm not peacocking around trying to make the case for masculinity, either.

...for the Rapist.

Two pant loads, one toilet...

Will these failures be catching???

"This was their moment to show their prowess in efficiency, reusability, the 'fail-fast efficiency' that Donald Trump really wants his presidency to embody.

"Donald Trump isn't somebody who wants to be associated with things that don't look brilliant or work amazingly."

I'm sure the booster is much larger this time.

Batter add NASA to RFK jr's responsibilities.

Absolutely love it…….tRump talked about that first “catch the rocket” thing every time he had a rally. Hope that’s a sign of things to come, blow ups with every damn department of his gawd damn presidency.

I really shouldn't.

his first booster. Salvaging boosters comes in real handy for satellite launches. (Unmanned. Use them over and over) The was a super heavy booster with a rocketship payload. The rocketship's trip was successful.

The federal government has paid SpaceX some $20 billion since 2008. The largest awards were for taking astronauts to and from the International Space Station, and resupplying the ISS. SpaceX has also won contracts to build a lunar-landing vehicle, and provide launch services to the Defense Department, among others.

Now this guy is going to come in and start slashing government programs, probably a lot of programs that provide support to children, the elderly, the sick, the disabled, and the poor. So it is not government waste when Musk makes billions off of the backs of tax payers, but it is government waste when you want to feed a kid or help out a poor or elderly person. Musk should give all of his government money back to the taxpayer then.

It's not a good deal for the taxpayer when they transfer the jobs to private companies that produce Oligarchs, and then they turn around and take over our government.

coming soon to America