SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program

How many american tax dollars were wasted on this DOGE???

Right, they've perfected the rocket, now we just need to load Elon onto the next flight.

Hmm maybe the FAA should not have cleared the flight since the rocket in January wasn't fully investigated to completion. You rush complex engineering and science and things go wrong.

The FAA was investigating SpaceX from the last explosion and grounded all spacex flight until after an investigation. Then, the nazi-in-chief fired the FAA leader to get his way.

May all things of Musk crash and burn

I say this as someone who loathes Musk, its not a big deal that this exploded.

But the success or failures of the program should also not be meaningfully attributed to Musk anyway. He owns the company but hes not an engineer.

America is footing this bill. This is no more musk's "Mars program" than it is MY mars program. Matter of fact, seeing as I pay taxes and he doesn't, it's more mine that his.

It's time to remove musk's U.S. subsidies for cars, rockets, and whatever else he's fucking up.

Remember when the FAA grounded him till he got this fix and then Musk told the FAA head to retire or be fired?

I think it's wild that "better times" is now when corruption wasn't so naked.

It pisses me off that I'm rooting against Space X, a company with an unarguably cool mission and product. Fuck Musk.

Has he tried firing half the SpaceX employees, slicing half the budget and making everyone still there send an email detailing what they did this week?

Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth.

Are those astronauts back on earth yet? No? Still stranded on the ISS? Okay...

Ughhhh just get in the rocket, rocket boy!!!

Not a failure. The whole point of R&D before doing a genuine payload is to remove this sort of issue. While the association of the company with Musk is truly crappy, this explosion is genuinely useful.

If this project were European or under a different administration, I would feel the same.

Maybe the internal GPS was looking for the Gulf of Mexico and just gave up?

Hope he's on the next flight

SpaceX can still pivot to a fireworks company and let decades old soviet rockets take people to the ISS. I'm sure that DOGE will cut the wasteful government grants this company gets.

Looking forward to SpaceX fans continuing to talk about how much SpaceX is insulated from musk's stupidity thanks to Shotwell.

We spent millions on the stainless dildo flying machine. The ruzzians used a pencil.

Hey guys, can we hear again how low Earth orbit is dumb and we should just go to Mars? Asking for a friend.

/s

I hope a space X employee is making these fail on purpose and keeps doing it

I wonder if the reason for it failing this time was sabotage by SpaceX engineers.

Thanks to this idiot being the ceo of the company people can finally realize how much of a waste this business is

Ugh, I don’t actually hate the hardware rich testing strategy SpaceX uses, but you’re supposed to learn from your failures before launching the next rocket.

This looked like almost exactly the same issue - fire in the skirt area that catastrophically destroyed the engines.

This is what happens when you cut regulations and fire the people who oversee quality and safety over stupidity and greed.

Sorry Elon, you're just going to have to live in the hell you're creating.

And we need at least like 7 consecutive launches like this to fuel a moon mission. No wonder he's talking about Mars again, more time to grift off taxpayer money and not be on the hook to actually deliver any time soon.

Worst fucking timeline.

i try very hard to compartmentalize space related stuff to keep it separate from current politics.

but this one does feel good. fuck elon

Second failure

Uhh, that title is wrong.

As is clarified in the body of the article, this is test number 8 for Starship. Zero successful flights. 4 failures, 50% success rate. Like a coin flip.

Good

I'm excited for their Musk x Boeing Air Force One collab

Move fast, break things, right?

Fingers crossed that musk was on that rocket!!

Fucking piece of shit

Was a boom.boom or kaboom? I didn't watch became I don't give a single shit about any of that nazis companies anymore.

How's that HLS coming? BONT and Dynetics are dying to know.