The bully gets punched in the nose
On Tuesday evening, Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on a test mission after two straight failures. The launch went well enough this time, but while the behemoth was on the edge of space, it lost control, started tumbling and eventually broke apart.
Or, as SpaceX put it: 'Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.'
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