Elon Musk and SpaceX and their carefully calibrated response to Starship blowing up - with one exception.
Based on everyone’s reactions, you’d almost think Starship’s flight ending in flames only minutes after it began Wednesday was part of SpaceX’s plan.After all, SpaceX is no stranger to exploding rockets and clunky rocket failures, so why wouldn’t they be bracing for everything to go wrong.
The SpaceX team assembled at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, was giddy, cheering as the countdown entered its final seconds and whooping joyfully once the most powerful rocket system in the world ignited its engines. “Obviously this does not appear to be a nominal situation, SpaceX aerospace engineer John Insprucker said as the rocket continued to flail before finally exploding 24 miles above the Gulf of Mexico roughly four minutes into the flight. His comment was the only one that hinted the launch-turned-fireworks-display had not unfolded according to plan.
Moments later the SpaceX team was cheering again while somebody sprayed people with champagne. The enormous rocket had lifted off and hadn’t exploded on the launchpad so SpaceX was going to count this as a win, even as Musk remained pokerfaced. But there’s one entity that isn’t brushing the launch explosion off, and that’s the Federal Aviation Administration. Previously, the FAA had been slow to supply Starship’s launch license, only issuing it Sunday night, hours before the FAA-scheduled launch window was due to open.
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