The video is awesome; should have saved the launch for July 4th. Turns out that making a big heavy is harder than just building a bigger rocket. Once upon a time there was a government agency dedicated to space engineering, but it was neutered by cutbacks and the drive for profit. Maybe the Chinese will launch satellites into space for the Amazon, since Jeffy can't seem to do it himself. By the way, this rocket platform was supposed to ferry equipment and rovers for the Artemis Lunar Project; the Chinese will have built a lunar city before the US puts another hooman on the surface.
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Ah, the glory of privatization! A public institution would never have created such a beautiful fireball and spread poisonous shit all over the area!
I don’t know if this is sarcasm, but launch explosions did happen relatively infrequently in the US and USSR throughout the 50s-80s
And both got shit done nack then. Meanwhile all private companies managed to do is send up spy satellites, penis rockets and blow up.
Don't worry, I'm sure that the rocket's production workers probably at least met the productivity metrics that Jeff Bezos set for them.
I wonder if it failed in some way and they intentionally detonated it after that, causing the entire fuel tanks to explode, or if this whole thing is unintentional.