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Elon Musk Breaks Silence on Starship Crash: “We Were Too Dumb” – Futurism
“It’s stupidly difficult to have a fully reusable orbital system.”
“Next time, we try pull *up* method.”
Too Dumb
Over the course of just two months, SpaceX hurled two massive stainless steel prototypes of its Starship spacecraft kilometers into the sky only to have both come crashing down in massive fireballs.
Most recently, Starship prototype SN9 failed to right itself after a daring belly flop maneuver on Tuesday, causing it to make impact with the ground at a steep angle, an event lovingly referred to as rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Building a 160-foot rocket…
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