SpaceX launching Super Heavy-Starship test flight after 2 mishaps

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

With Federal Aviation Administration approval, SpaceX readied a gargantuan 400-foot-tall Super Heavy-Starship for its 9th test flight Tuesday — a launch featuring multiple upgrades in the wake of spectacular back-to-back upper stage failures during the previous two flights in January and March.

Company founder Elon Musk planned to provide a post-launch update on his long-range plans to "make life multi-planetary," presumably outlining the role the Super Heavy-Starship will play in eventual flights to Mars. He originally planned to speak before the latest launch but decided, without explanation, to hold it up until after the flight.

The huge rocket's launching, known as "Integrated Flight Test 9," was targeted for liftoff at 7:30 p.m. EDT from SpaceX's sprawling Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing-and-flight facility, known as Starbase, on the Texas Gulf Coast.

The mission featured the first use of a previously flown 23-story-tall Super Heavy first stage, which flew itself back to capture by giant mechanical arms on the launch tower during the program's seventh test flight in January.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-launching-super-heavy-starship-195424673.html

So this is the one that's supposed to take Musk to Mars? When's he leaving?

[Klarkashton]

1. How much govt money is backing this stupid shit?

Something tells me it's plenty.

[edbermac]

2. The rocket booster blew up.

Supposed to land in the Gulf of Mexico but went boom boom instead. Also, they were supposed to launch some satellites from the starship, but the doors didn’t open fully. Starship is still going on, but it’s supposed to be landing soon so we’ll see what happens with that.

Tough shit, Leon.

[ga_girl]

4. In flight issues with Starship

Apparently there was a leak and the Starship went into a uncontrollable spin.

[BannonsLiver]

3. Where's our resident smug MuskBro?

The one with the deeply unamerican POV on NASA?

[WhiteTara]

5. Are we going for 0 for 3?

He's not very good with this.

[Jit423]

6. Where is DOGE when you need it? or Literally "out of the mouths of babes."

When will he pay back our government?