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649 points chinathrow | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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terramex ◴[16 Jan 25 23:04 UTC] No.42732041[source]▶

Looks like second stage broke up over Caribbean, videos of the debris (as seen from ground):

Moment of the breakup:

Cu3PO42 ◴[16 Jan 25 23:08 UTC] No.42732085[source]▶

What a strangely beautiful sight. While I was excited to see ship land, I'm also happy I get to see videos of this!

I felt.. bad watching that breakup, it reminded me of Columbia.

1. inglor_cz ◴[17 Jan 25 09:42 UTC] No.42735779[source]▶

OTOH I remembered Columbia too and I felt good knowing that Starship is being tested thoroughly without jeopardizing the crew.

The space-shuttle could not fly to the orbit automatically. It had to have people on board, and the first flight, IIRC, came close to a disaster.

Starship Flight 7