Musk's BFR Goes Down In Flames

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Oh well, he only gave it a 50% chance ...

The Problem happened right when the booster was
supposed to separate. It didn't. Therein was the
fatal issue. They had to push The Button.

But, they have those things LOADED with sensors.
They'll know all the problems down to the finest
detail in a week and iron them out.

Musk has a "fail early" philosophy for SpaceX,
CRASH lots of prototypes because you'll learn
SO much SO quickly. It really wasn't long where
the Falcon-9s went from exploding to mainline,
and re-usable, service.

I think the Falcon Heavy is next to launch at
KSC. For some reason they are NOT gonna try to
recover the boosters ... dunno what that's all
about. Maybe the big sats will require ALL of
the boosters fuel ?

Anyway, with the F9/Heavy, SpaceX has a good and
useful line-up for now. Starship is for The Future.
It's sheer cargo capacity will make it quick and
cheap to ferry all the parts for moon-huts and
such - eventually Mars-huts and such.