That Didn't Work As Planned

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dapper Dave]

That's how all great inventions happen, with a whole lot of, " that didn't go as planned ", first.  🤠

[Rye Miles #13621]

Mistakes will be made and accidents will occur with every inventions. He's had more success than failure I do believe.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Yep.  Look at how many failures NASA had early on.  And still does.  

[Cypress Sun]

2 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Yep.  Look at how many failures NASA had early on.  And still does.  

 

Big difference between NASA launching vehicles from the east coast of Florida headed out over the ocean (uninhabited area) and launching from the southern coast of Texas headed out over the Gulf and inhabited land masses.

[Trailrider #896]

That young baseball player said the Ship was going in circles, then straightened out and then exploded. That sounds to me like the explosion was caused by the Flight Termination System (FTS) onboard the Ship, which is designed to blow it so as to keep it from landing in one piece..  The booster also has an FTS, but is disabled when the booster is stable and close to the "chopsticks" to keep from blowing a perfectly good booster. At least they caught the booster with the chopsticks...for the third time successfully.

 

Regardless of the FAA requiring an investigation, I'm sure SpaceX wants to know the reason the Ship went out of control, so as to fix the problem on the next flight. I just hope they got enough data prior to loosing telemetry. Onboard video showed the Ship rolling out-of-control before LOS telemetry.

Go SpaceX!

[watab kid]

but the first stage worked fine , returned to dock after seperation ,