I can’t believe how many arrogant, Dunning Kruger suffering, armchair assholes there are here. Truly embarrassed for Free Republic.
The shutdown and reignition of individual engines is used to control thrust. They’re not all supposed to turn on and off at the same time.
There was a problem with propellent supply from the header tanks during the landing burn — as per Elon Musk Tweet.
And the maneuver is called? that’s right a crazy Elon!
Another Tweet from Musk:
SN8 did great! Even reaching apogee would’ve been great, so controlling all way to putting the crater in the right spot was epic!!
It was an amazing achievement, probably reached with less money and in less time than Boeing's capsule, which will take 9 months more just to disassemble to fix the problem they identified. Musk already has another Starship almost ready to go, and they know exactly what was wrong with this flight.
Dunning Kruger... amazing this has no etymological relation to finishing the last of the coffee.