Starship First Flight: FAIL or SUCCESS? with Scott Manley and Marcus House
Universe Today Podcast
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The Damage to the Launch Complex
I was watching on Twitter and you sort of called back to a tweet that Elon Musk had made a couple of years ago saying that it might make a good idea to install a flame diverter. Not sure this could be a bad idea and haunt me in the future. And you then quote tweeted that pointing out. Actually, we needed it because yeah, on launch, we had an RUD, rapid unscheduled digging. Yeah, it did not have a flame trench so it dug its own. All that debris ended up flying everywhere. It flew through the cameras that were set up. The NASA space flight's van just got smashed.
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