That went well.
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RUD 
They got it off the ground, I have no doubt that the data gained will see them right for the next try
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That was incredible all things considered. The fact they didnāt blow the whole site up is success in itās own right
Hereās to the next one, probably relatively soon!
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Obviously someone came into the office asking me questions, last time I looked it was going well, then next time it was in bits, why does work get in the way at a critical point ? Hope they got all they needed from it ready to try again.
So Tim (EverydayAstronaut) is 5 miles away and they are just now getting covered in sand from the take off! The cloud that was kicked off is insane!
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I believe they got through Max Q before the RUD so that is an achievement too - next time hopefully they make orbit (and you donāt get rudely interupted by work 
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That was amazing to watch, done a-lot better than they expected it seemed. Theyād have been happy with it just clearing the tower then going boom
seems like it might have been a manual abort once they realised the spin was unrecoverable instead of the rocket just going boom
Yeah, the flight termination system exists exactly for this! Iām most amazed that it managed to spin multiple times without breaking apart and blowing up.
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As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation
ā SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 20, 2023
True Story.
Just like the comms around many RAFAC activities 
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No lives ar risk, so they let it spin for a bit for data gathering.
The spacecraft in flight terminatiom program was armed throughout against certain parameters, but once sep didnt happen they disarmed the paramenter for spin temporarily.
I was like a school kid watching that go, for the first timeā¦ will i get to watch man walk on the moon again?
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Again? We never went before according to my Stepmother.
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Surely youre not old enough to have seen it last in 1972?..
I think as a humanity we are heading to the moon again. And Tornado is hoping to watch that. Rather than him watching it for a second time 
ICYMI
Today was meant to be the launch of Space Xās Starshipā¦
Today was also the day (in the US at least), that Picard and crew were potentially mothballing THEIR starshipā¦
Yes. Im only 40ā¦
As humanity, looking beyond the stars.
Its amazing what can be achieved if we put aside our squabbles.
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Although the squabbles did help. WW2 accelerated rocketry development and the Cold War certainly didnāt hurt the space race
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Weād be in a bit of trouble of the moon was beyond any stars
Is that like a dialed down version of āthe troublesā
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