The primary time Anthony Gomez noticed one among SpaceX’s Starship prototypes take flight, he watched it on a projector. He was far-off from the humid Texas coast, the place the precise launch was going down. As an alternative, he was sitting in his home in Florida together with his girlfriend.
On the wall of his residence, Anthony admired the Starship rocket because it careened by way of the sky. All three of the Raptor engines minimize off when the spaceship reached an altitude of roughly 41,000 ft, and the large metal vessel started to plummet again to Earth, pitched over on its facet, trying like a grain silo in free fall. Simply earlier than reaching the touchdown pad, its engines reignited, and the car quickly turned upright once more because it ready to the touch down. However the spacecraft got here down too quick, hitting the bottom arduous and bursting aside in an enormous explosion. Afterward, solely a charred patch of Earth remained the place Starship as soon as stood — a disappointment.
