A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket experienced a sudden disassembly (explosion) yesterday at Cape Canaveral during a "hotfire" ground test. There were no injuries, except to Blue Origin owner, Trump suck-up and gazillionaire Jeff Bezos' ego. From CNN:
"Video captured from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Thursday evening appears to show a rocket exploding on its launchpad.
'All personnel are accounted for and safe,' Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin’s founder, said in a separate X post. 'It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.'”
Easy for the smug Bezos to say, as he competes with South Afrikaner fascist and white supremacist Elon Musk's SpaceX exploding rockets in their puerile race to space. It followed an April failure that resulted in a failure to deliver its payload:
"The company announced New Glenn’s plans to return to flight earlier this week after a failure during the rocket’s third flight on April 19 prompted a Federal Aviation Administration investigation. During the April mission, the rocket’s first stage booster landed successfully on a seafaring barge, but the upper portion, or second stage, of the rocket didn’t manage to deliver its payload..."
Sadly, both Bezos and Musk will keep plowing ahead on their quest to see how much money they can set fire to. This is the result of privatization of a national mission, where two arrogant moguls vie for supremacy in space.
Here's video of the rocket exploding:
This is what Bezos, Musk, et al., are doing to this country.
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