[alphabettsy]

Maybe it’s your own biases at work as well. The major publications I frequent including the NYT talk about it as being progress even with the explosion and seem very neutral if not hopeful and positive.

NYT: “The journeys of Starship’s two parts ended in separate explosions. But the engineers at Elon Musk’s spaceflight company overcame problems that marred the rocket’s first flight in April.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/science/spacex-starship-l...

[38321003thrw]

Compare:

Successful test of Starship’s two stages ended in explosions, making progress over the initial test flight in April.

[alphabettsy]

What am I supposed to be seeing?

[the_third_wave]

The thing is called "progress" and is the reason for doing these tests. If you really care about this I suggest looking back in the development history of SpaceX' current cash cow, the Falcon 9. Look for similar explosive events and compare that to the current ease with which they seem to launch and land and relaunch these things now. Now fast-forward another 10 years and imagine the same happening with this new rocket which is poised to bring down the price of launching mass to orbit by another large factor.

[alphabettsy]

Yea I already know that and I’ve been following. The articles also say the same thing about progress so what’s the issue?

[38321003thrw]

I did say “compare”.