Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
breakingcups@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s kinda fun to be living in a time where rockets regularly blow up again. Apart from, you know, everything else going on and not wanting astronauts to die.
MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Honestly, rocket development has always been filled with explosions - the Saturn V had like 6 engine-out events during Apollo and the early Falcon 9 tests were just as explosive. what’s different now is we get to see the failures in HD livestreams instead of classified footage that would’ve been buried in the 60s.
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Comparing an engine out where the mission went on without issue and a huge fireball on the pad is apples and oranges.