FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship craft after explosion minutes into launch

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The FAA grounded SpaceX’s Starship rocket today after it exploded minutes into lift off on its first test flight and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The company, headed by Elon Musk, had planned to send the 400-foot rocket around the globe.

, saying “Every great achievement throughout history has demanded some level of calculated risk, because with great risk comes great reward. Looking forward to all that SpaceX learns, to the next flight test—and beyond.”

When asked if it’s time for lawmakers to push for more commercial spaceflight regulation, House Transportation Aviation Subcommittee Chair, speaking to POLITICO on Capitol Hill, said he doesn’t want to do “anything that impedes the progress of innovation for commercial space.” “But obviously, you got that balance with safety. And so we’re gonna continue working with NTSB,” Graves said.

SpaceX’s Starship is designed to be a fully reusable space vehicle that can carry both crew and cargo “to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond,”, chair of the Senate Commerce Aviation Subcommittee, said lawmakers need to clarify which agency will be in charge of regulating the industry as “space tourism steps up.”

“We have to decide who’s going to regulate that type of travel. Is it going to be the FAA or is it going to be NASA — NASA is not a regulating agency the way FAA is — coming up with the rules and policies of how we conduct both commercial passenger and commercial freight travel?” Duckworth said."...

 

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Looking at the level of destruction at the launch pad it seems it was hugely miscalculated launch, but what a boom!

I saw the explosion. Pretty sure there weren't any pieces left large enough to ground if they were lucky enough to fish them out of the Gulf.

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On a flatbed?

I liked the response provided by SpaceX ... an unplanned disassembly.

I guess this answers the question: was it supposed to blow up? Apparently not

Insurance payout?

Pretty sure it grounded itself.

CommunityNotes Please give these hacks at Politico some insight as to what the objectives of the launch were since they apparently just want to make Musk look bad.

Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.

What No it didn't. Mission wasn't completely successful but it didn't blow up

of course your rag would gloat over the misfortune of others

dont even fucking get me started that is such a misleading title

Did they ground it before or after it fucking exploded

The objective was the leave the pad and anything more a bonus your headline is incredibly misleading

It grounded itself lol

Think gravity grounded it tbf.

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