SpaceX
We have liftoff—kind of.
SpaceX’s Starship rocket successfully launched from the company’s launch site in Boca Chica Village, Texas on Thursday morning. The two-stage rocket successfully fired its first stage, climbing roughly 24 miles into the air before falling back down to Earth and exploding in a ball of expensive fire.
“Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly,” John Insprucker, SpaceX’s principal integration engineer, said in the company’s live broadcast of the test flight.
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