Elon Musk has been sitting on a treasure trove of spectacular fail video from the SpaceX archive , and on August 31st hepromisedto release a blooper reel with “ some epic explosion footage . ” This sunup , he made upright on that hope . Now you may watch many millions of dollars go kaboom in just over two bit .
https://gizmodo.com/cool-guy-elon-musk-casually-drops-new-animation-of-worl-1797596728
For Musk , this compendium of failures is more like a victory lap . Last week , SpaceX successfullylandedanother Falcon 9 first stage booster rocket after launching aUS Air Force space planefrom Cape Canaveral . The ten - twelvemonth journeying of blow up one rocket after another seems to have come to an closing . There ’s still knead to do though . “ Long route to reusability of Falcon 9 elementary cost increase stage , ” tweeted this morning . “ When upper stage & fairing also reusable , cost will drop by a factor > 100 . ” As Gizmodo has noted in the past , achieving full re - usable rocketswon’t be easy .
set up to the composition - music from Monty Python , SpaceX is poke a small playfulness at itself here and acknowledge that we watched all of those livestreams desire to see account be made , but also hop-skip to see a big ol’ explosion . Relive the safe times with every “ rapid unscheduled disassembly ” in the video below , and air in next time to see SpaceX win again .
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