SpaceX's Starship 8 test vehicle blew up over the Caribbean on Thursday, diverting flights into South Florida airports because of what the FAA termed "falling space debris." The explosion occurred about 20 seconds before the engines were due to shut down after what appeared to be a successful launch from SpaceX's south Texas launch facility. It happened in roughly the same area that Starship 7 was lost in mid January. That failure resulted in widespread air traffic disruptions in the Caribbean.
Letâs hope Muskâs plan to massively gut the VA and the Trump teamâs declaration that fired veterans âwerenât fit to hold their jobsâ explode and crash into the Caribbean next. Trump to âTake Careâ of Veterans by Firing 80,000 From VA
Sec DoT and head of the FAA will convene an investigation. DOGE is gonna save taxpayersâ dollars and insist the NTSB sit this investigation out. A statement will be issued⊠âOops⊠stuff happens. Nothing to see.â. Then a resounding thumbs up will be given for the next launch attempt. What can possibly go wrong? Another âUnintentional Disassemblyâ over heavily populated location? Airport ground stops? Harm to the innocents in the air and ground? No big dealâŠ
If Elon were on the other side of the isle, most would be saying look at the accomplishment. But for political reasons we hate any attempted progress. Remember NASA had no unmanned test flights of the shuttle. scaryâŠin retrospect.
Where are these treehugging vegan evironmentally hyper- sensitive, super forward thinking last generation Greta Thunberg desciples? Whaaat about the environment?!
I can basically hear my grandmothers voice, watching us do stupid stuff as kids, saying: âYeah boys! This all gonna be fun, until one of you clowns is bleeding!â
Is Elon going to have to kill innocent people who had every right to expect not to be hit by a billionaires expensive space-toy debries - before someone hits the freeze button?
They didnât show up to work or provide proof, as requested, about what they had done. Iâm with the side that wants adults in charge, whichever that is.
As a product of the traditional space development process, I normally enjoy SpaceXâs approachâŠpush forward, instrument the bejesus out of the vehicles, solve todayâs problem and push on with another test.
This was a bit disquieting, though. This failure, on the surface, seems to be the same as the last one. Under their process, the cause of the previous failure should have been found and corrected.
Getting into space is very hard. If one goes back to review any major system development, there were many failures. the STS lost four full engine sets prior to a successful Flight readiness test. Minuteman, nike, Redstone, Atlas, Centaur, the Delta Series ALL had several failures. While Space X tends to push the safety envelope a bit in the PUBLICS mind, knowing some of the lead engineers, they are NOT cutting corners. This is just plain hard.As for the political stuff. All of us have a right to free speech. No everyone LIKE what everyone says (that would be boring) but until a persons rights are infringed upon then free speech is the way of this nation. like it or not.
Muskâs big ideas are starting to look a lot like Icarus. Arrogant reckless and pushing limits too far. In the old myth Icarus ignored warnings flew too close to the sun and paid the price when his wax wings melted. The difference is when Icarus fell he only took himself down.
