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1 posted on 03/07/2025 4:50:47 AM PST by MtnClimber
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Wow, two tests in a row have failed.


2 posted on 03/07/2025 4:51:06 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Does CBS News bother to mention that the superheavy booster was successfully returned to the launch tower and was caught. If not, I wonder why not.


3 posted on 03/07/2025 4:56:44 AM PST by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow. SAMARIA )
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Is this part of the testing of new heat shield options?


4 posted on 03/07/2025 4:57:37 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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5 posted on 03/07/2025 5:02:03 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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How long will every article include “formerly Twitter”? Getting a little redundant, everyone on the planet probably knows this and those that don’t, don’t care.


6 posted on 03/07/2025 5:03:14 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
I love a wry euphemism.

Democrat National Committee could use that one.


8 posted on 03/07/2025 5:08:09 AM PST by _longranger81
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Marxist news media clucking over Elon’s “failures.” SpaceX is the only U.S. company capable of getting satellites and people into space. Starliner is in an unmanned development test phase. Failures will occur and improvements implemented to make the system reliable. SeeBS can stick it up their ***.


9 posted on 03/07/2025 5:19:03 AM PST by twister881
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I’m sure this will make angry Dems happy.

However, it is likely that the disaster will be somewhat offset by what SpaceX learns from it. There will be more wins and losses over time, and more incremental advances along the way. Can only imagine what space travel looks like when my kids are my age.


12 posted on 03/07/2025 5:21:19 AM PST by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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Once is happenstance.

Twice is coincidence.

Three times is enemy action...............

This is sabotage....................


13 posted on 03/07/2025 5:24:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Maybe the Starship is shaped wrong. I mean it looks cool and everything. But maybe the canards are too far forward and they are prone to inducing instability.

Whatever, it's not my problem

15 posted on 03/07/2025 5:32:44 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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I saw it going past Naples, FL while it was still in one piece.

It looked like a cloud with a bright light in the middle moving very fast as it was coming towards me.

Then after it passed, it was just the bright light with no aura or cloud.

I wonder if that was when it started shutting down.

The strangest part was that I pulled out my iPhone with the Sky Guide app and it said a Russian satellite Cosmos 2406 was passing at a similar trajectory at the exact same time.


23 posted on 03/07/2025 6:08:27 AM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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Why is SpaceX such a big deal? Is it because NASA has gone the way of GM, viz. staffed by fools and makes junk? Thank that pig pimp o’bama for that. That piece of trash forced DEI into NASA and now it’s a joke.


32 posted on 03/07/2025 7:06:04 AM PST by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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"During Starship's ascent burn, the vehicle experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly

Does that mean "it blowed up"?

38 posted on 03/07/2025 8:15:34 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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Still, who are we going to revere, people who don’t know the difference between a boy and a girl, or someone who can parallel park a rocket booster? (The booster was successfully captured just before the rest blew up.

Or did they initiate self-destruction because it was out of control?


39 posted on 03/07/2025 8:23:20 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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