Starship launch this morning

[RobertELee]

5 minutes!

[Del.]

Light that candle!

[RobertELee]

Incredible!

[rdshear]

Boom

[mkd]

Rapid unplanned disassembly
Boooo

[RobertELee]

Would've loved to been on South Padre Island today

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

Ah crap. KaBOOM.

SpaceX hailing test as a success... "Success comes from what we learn." 

[champshire]

That must have been expensive, but very very cool and fun to watch!

[kccadcam]

On the next episode of "Deadliest catch".....
Need some big nets.....

[gcode]

fun while it lasted
I don't know if it blew up.. or they initiated the self destruct sequence
It was about 40km up when it started tumbling

[RobertELee]

SpaceX hailing test as a success... "Success comes from what we learn." 

Do you expect every single thing to happen perfect the first time? With experiment, come failures, and each failure comes with learning new things. I fully expected something to happen such as this. And this rocket was never going to survive anyway. If it had made its full mission it would have splashed down and destroyed near Hawaii.

[RobertELee]

fun while it lasted
I don't know if it blew up.. or they initiated the self destruct sequence
It was about 40km up when it started tumbling

Looked like self destruct. There was likely no way they could have stopped that tumble.

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

Self destruct seems very likely. You could see it starting to wobble.

I wasn't critical, Robert. First test flight. They'll fix the issues and try again in a couple months (Musk said).

[ghuns]

Rapid unplanned disassembly...

That's a really unique way of sayin, the shit blowed up.

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

It was about 40km up when it started tumbling

Tesla stock also tumbling today (but for different reasons).