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SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded in space minutes after launching from Texas, marking the second consecutive failure this year.

The rocket spun uncontrollably before breaking apart, with debris seen over Florida and the Bahamas. The cause remains unclear, though multiple engines shut down before contact was lost.

The failure raises concerns about setbacks in Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program. The FAA temporarily halted flights at major Florida airports due to falling debris.

A similar Starship failure in January scattered wreckage over the Caribbean.

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

Lol "Move fast and ~~break~~ catastrophically explode things" is once again shown to be a flawed methodology for pioneering space travel.

To the flabbergasted shock of everyone. /s

At this point SpaceX is making Boeing look like they have quality control.

NASA at least had a reputation for taking every conceivable precaution they could, and getting it right without wasting tons of fuel and rare materials (and potentially precious lives) by exploding VC-funded prototypes across the atmosphere, into the ocean, on the ground.

Like a lot of people, I've fantasized about space since being a wee kiddo, but you couldn't pay me to get on a Musk-rocket. To think, they wanna go to Mars‽ With human beings‽

We'd at least be excited if they send Elon, Bezos and co. first.