Thursday, April 20, 2023

400-Foot Tall SpaceX Rocket Explodes Over Gulf of Mexico

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its first Starship rocket on Thursday morning, but it exploded during a mid-flight failure over the Gulf of Mexico near Texas.

Live video footage of the test showed the rocket traveling for several minutes before the rocket appeared to fail. The unmanned rocket later exploded in midair.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Allright, that's enough of that for awhile. I'm sure that wasn't particularly helpful to the environment.

Stick with what you know, Elon!

Lynn Anderson said...

All of this goes through a lot of trial periods.
He has already launched 25 rockets but this one was the biggest and most powerful ever built.
He will get there.

Anonymous said...

From your lips to God's ears!

Who cares. In the grand scheme of things, it means nothing!

Lynn Anderson said...

Space exploration means nothing?

Anonymous said...

How does it change your life? How did the moon landing change your life? That was 54 years ago. Let's deal with the here and now. People are sleeping in the park, and pan-handling all over the city, and you are fantasizing about Elon Musk.

Go see 2001 Space Odessey again and get over it.

Anonymous said...

Why not work on this planet's problems first?

Lynn Anderson said...

Elon can work on what in H he wants. Tell Biden to work on the problems of this country instead of creating them.
Without explorers such as Elon Musk, you would still have people believing that the Earth was flat.
He's taking the risk to discover new horizons. He is to be admired in a myriad of ways.

Lynn Anderson said...

@8:25...Spending on space supports highly skilled jobs, fuels technology advancements with practical applications, and creates business opportunities that feed back into the economy. This in turn grows the pool of public money that can be spent on solving the world’s most pressing problems and Elon is not doing this with YOUR money.
Tell Biden to clean up his act.

Anonymous said...

This was a successful test launch, if your just read the headlines without reading the whole story you’re missing out on the real info.
To all those whiny wimps, just wait till a man walks into the women’s bathroom you when you’re trying to pee, enjoy your “ how’s it effect me” moment

Anonymous said...

How did you make that leap, 7:12? Space travel and trans gender bathrooms. What a brilliant deduction. I would never have thought of it.

Anonymous said...

for the people complaing bout everything someone else does with their money get off the computer and come up with a cure for the comon cold.you have NO idea what can be learned from these mishaps even if we dont make it to mars.by the way the earth is NOT flat if you think that your brain is flat

Anonymous said...

This is why,

“How does it change your life? How did the moon landing change your life?”

Whinny wimps always want to know how it effects you personally

Anonymous said...

9:42, you are what is called a Utopian. Everything is getting worse, and you sit there on your computer writing about the benefits to all of us from space exploration.

I can't think of one thing that I don't have to go out of my way to get something in any way comparable to what was available 20 years ago.

It doesn't even matter if you are willing to pay more; it just isn't available anymore.

But just sit there on your computer and imagine it's a wonderful world, Dr. Pangloss.