SpaceX's large craft - starship - has experienced a series of problems recently.
They have managed to launch several vehicles, and have returned the booster successfully; and even "caught it" a few times.
But the upper stage hasn't found any success. The rockets mis-fire. The attitude can't be controlled. The payload doors won't open.
And now they had a spectacular explosion on the pad while performing a static fire.
I know that there is a lot of trial and error involved. And space is hard. But it just seems like maybe the spacecraft is too big and powerful and it just can't be harnessed properly.
Anyway, you can watch the explosion on the attached link:
And one amusing thing. Afterwards, Elon channeled his inner Python fan and said "it's just a scratch" - which is amusing yet stupid (coming from him)
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