'rapid unscheduled disassembly'

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'rapid unscheduled disassembly'

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What Elon Musk called the crash landing of his Starship prototype rocket.



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rapid unscheduled disassembly
Is Ron Dennis (formerly of McLaren F1) working with him on this project?!

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Incredible footage. Looks like he just fired off a grain silo.

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Clever the way the internal guidance was able to get it "righted" but it'd lost too much height to recover.

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Eat your heart out, Sukhoi!

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