Leon's big rocket just went boom boom

[edbermac]

Successful launch and the booster was caught by the chopsticks, but the starship itself lost engines and is presumed destroyed.

On edit:

Launch at 35:30
Chopstick grab at 42:10
Starship starts gyrating wildly at 43:40

Link to tweet

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Too bad he wasn't on it.

Him, Pissy and Couchfucker.

[kimbutgar]

4. You beat me to that comment!

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[brush]

12. What, the 'genius' fucks up in his core businesses too? How can that be?

But trump did it regularly too running casinos, airlines, univerities and on and on so it's about par for te course with that pair.

[Attilatheblond]

2. Maybe that company should can the guy in charge. Seems they really aren't preforming adequately

[BannonsLiver]

3. I'm sure his cult will say it's a raging success.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Why do they keep giving him money to blow up rockets? /nt

[Attilatheblond]

20. 'cuz if Congress doesn't pay him, he will pay for some mokes to primary them?

Blackmail, it works evidently.

[haele]

41. They pay him for the Falcons. I know they were talking about Starship,

But until he can prove it won't rapidly deconstruct after the first booster separation, they won't give him the big bucks.
SpaceX has two entities, one is Government Contracts, the other is Commercial.
And Elon Musk is not supposed to have any input into the Government Contract side other than signing off on the contract.

[Attilatheblond]

6. Link?

Tried a search & only seeing stuff from January.

[edbermac]

21. Here

Launch at 35:30

Link to tweet

[Attilatheblond]

24. Thank you

[PA Democrat]

7. And he wants to "fix" our air traffic control system?

No thanks

[LeftInTX]

8. Looks like it failed 10 minutes ago @ 17:40 CST.

&ab_channel=SpaceflightNow

Looks like the rocket lost power, then disappeared from telemetry.

Media doesn't know exactly where starship is. They are thinking central Fla

Apparently, the rocket missed mar a lago

[unblock]

9. That's the kind of private sector expertise we need in the federal government!!!!1!!1!!!111

[Dennis Donovan]

10. NSF - NASASpaceflight.com: Starship Flight 8: That's not nominal. Ship 34 in a spin.

NSF - NASASpaceflight.com
@NASASpaceflight
Starship Flight 8: That's not nominal. Ship 34 in a spin.
Video in tweet below
6:39 PM · Mar 6, 2025

Oops, Elmo!

Link to tweet

[SocialDemocrat61]

18. Thanks

[Emile]

11. WTF did that cost us tax payers?

[Irish_Dem]

15. I was about to ask the same question.

We can assume the loss won't come out of Musk's pocket.

[Archae]

13. Rockets are for the most part ver complex machines.

Even a tiny part malfunctioning can blow it up.

Remember in "The Right Stuff" when the astronauts watched all those rockets explode?

[John1956PA]

23. A great movie.

"How the hell did we let them get ahead of us?" a high powered general or polititian bellowed, just before the malfunction of the projector which was loaded with Sputnik information reel.

[efhmc]

14. Shouldn't that say the US' big rocket went busto since we paid for it?

[SocialDemocrat61]

16. Thanks for the links

[madinmaryland]

17. Unfortunately, his little rocket still works.

[LeftInTX]

22. You mean all those frozen one cell rockets...

[efhmc]

19. At least the Texas coast was safe this time.

[Tommy Carcetti]

25. We saw it while walking our dog

Didn't know there was a launch at all.

I saw a little dot that I first thought was a plane, and then it turned into a swirling cloud that was shooting off sparks, and then it turned into a comet like contrail.

We didn't know what to make of it--thought it might have been a meteorite at first.

[llmart]

35. SpaceX is always launching rockets.

In fact, quite frequently. He's apparently got money to burn/waste.

My son works at KSC.

[efhmc]

45. Where were you?

[Tommy Carcetti]

48. South Florida. nt

[efhmc]

49. Makes sense. Thanks for the reply.

[GreenWave]

26. Will he clean up the mess since we have no tax dollars to spend?

[RandomNumbers]

30. That's actually an important question

Does the company's insurance pick up the tab for cleaning up the debris that goes into the ocean and everywhere else? Or is it just left to poison the ecosystem?

[efhmc]

46. I am betting not cleaned up. We have seen and heard repeatedly what "they" think of our planet.

[dalton99a]

36. +1

[Maninacan]

28. Accident waiting to happen

Last year one was brought down by launch pad debris. No excuse for that one.
Concorde was an accident waiting to happen as were the Shuttles.

[hatrack]

29. "Starship" my ass.

The only star this ship has seen and will ever see is the same one we've been orbiting for the past few million years.

[chowmama]

31. If I was one of those astronauta

I would be very, very nervous.

[Joinfortmill]

32. Cluster...Fck

[mwooldri]

33. oh no!

Anyway....

[AKwannabe]

34. Oh?

Darn

[valleyrogue]

37. But private is better, blah, blah, blah.

I am shocked Eloon was ever allowed to create a space program.

[LS0999]

38. Too bad he wasn't on it.

That would have been something to celebrate

[Baron2024]

39. The Cost

I googled it and the estimated cost per mission lost is around $60 million dollars. I guess that Musk has money to burn.

[Thunderbeast]

44. It's NASA money!

[efhmc]

47. Who funds NASA?

[Thunderbeast]

50. Responding to previous post...

...suggesting that MUSK had money to burn. Clarifying that NASA (us) is funding the whole project.

[efhmc]

53. Thank you for taking the time to explain.

[Meowmee]

40. That video didn't show any explosion?

Time for dogens to take a chainsaw to space x, better yet just fire eloon and put someone who isn't a psycho on drugs in charge, or just defund him and start over.

[Talitha]

42. So I guess that'll be on Elon's list of 10 things he did this week...

[Tribetime]

43. So the goal of space ex is to have people able to live on other planets

Good thing we're not wasted money on stupid stuff

[Blue Owl]

51. Anyone who trusts this asshole is a stupid fuck

[LetMyPeopleVote]

52. musk's latest mistake

[Marthe48]

54. Rocket flopper

or flop rocket