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rdl:
Clearing the tower was all that was needed for this launch to be considered a success.

I'm sure they're disappointed that they didn't get separation and Starship ignition data. If it was KSP I would have been trying to hit the spacebar as soon as it was pointed anywhere near the right direction.

I'm still very impressed how well it held together even while cartwheeling. That's one sturdy machine.

Watching replays from LabPadre I saw some people had cameras and such (even a car) close to the pad that suffered a lot of damage and at least one of those vertical tanks near the pad was severely buckled. Tim Dodd (Everyday Astronaut) was several miles away and still got covered with sand.

tom66:
Wow!  That minivan parked there got absolutely pummeled, the force of that rocket is insane.

This is a really good video showing multiple engine failures on the ascent eventually leading to failure.
https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/1649052544755470338

Sal Ammoniac:

--- Quote from: rdl on April 20, 2023, 10:06:44 pm ---Clearing the tower was all that was needed for this launch to be considered a success.
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Wow, that's setting the bar incredibly low, but that seems par for the course for a Musk operation.

By contrast, the first Saturn V launch five decades ago went off without a hitch. In fact, all Saturn launches successfully reached orbit. The first launch of the space shuttle, with men aboard, also was a success. The Space X method seems to be "throw mud at a wall and see what sticks".

rdl:
If NASA was building Starship, it would be 20 years from now before anything got off the ground.

Sal Ammoniac:

--- Quote from: rdl on April 20, 2023, 11:32:27 pm ---If NASA was building Starship, it would be 20 years from now before anything got off the ground.

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The current NASA is more bureaucratic and doesn't have the blank check budget it used to have. The NASA of old went from nothing to putting men on the moon in ten years.

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