Elon’s latest grain silo went full Kerbal, spinning and all.

Stage Separation Failure supposedly, but frankly it was looking bad long before that.

I’m sure the debris damage will buff out.

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The news is spinning this as a huge step. You know we had a space SHUTTLE, right?

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It’s much better than the Space Shuttle, at least on paper. The space shuttle as finally conceived was a horrible kludge of what was initially a simple, small space truck.

If/when Starship actually flies, it’d be the first step forward in super-heavy lift rocketry since the SaturnV/N1 was cancelled. Excepting the stand-alone Energia that never flew.

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Soviets had automated more advanced shuttles, and they were abondoned after the fall. I’m also suprised Putin didn’t revive the program.

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In fairness those also had an explosion problem.

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The NRO, on the other hand, is very interested. And this will probably start up the dumb “rods from god” discourse.

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