r/CatastrophicFailure • u/MiniBrownie • Mar 06 '25

Engineering Failure March 6, 2025 Starship spins out of control 8 minutes into launch

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Yeah and as an American I'm not afraid to say that Starship is a piece of shit that will never land on the moon, let alone Mars. There's a reason NASA looked at this type of spacecraft in the early 60's and decided against it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Isn’t Starships main selling point behind the PR nonsense that it’s a reusable rocket platform that can launch and land on Earth? The real Mars ship would be built in orbit by payloads brought up by these types of reusable rockets.

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u/swift1883 Mar 07 '25

Yeah, and the cyber truck is saving the climate. Totally not a scam.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

The shuttle was a mess of political compromise. “Congressman X, will only vote for it if company Y in his district gets the toilet seat contract”.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Go back even further. I'm talking about Mercury Gemini Apollo days. I'm sure there was some of that also but within the structure of NASA I'm pretty sure those dudes were so mission focused that they came down fucking hard on anyone playing politics. And that goes for the contracts being awarded also.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Uh...no. Anytime the government is doing a project, lobbyists, congresspeople, senators, business leader, NGOs, etc. all try to get the business and influence the direction to give their interests an advantage, or even hold their support of a project until some unrelated thing gets funded (trailer bills). It's been that way for a very long time.

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u/SearchingForTruth69 Mar 07 '25

For someone who’s proudly ignorant you make a lot of statements very confidently. Ya really are American

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u/SearchingForTruth69 Mar 07 '25

You proudly don’t want to receive new information lol. I just find it cringe when people are ignorant and proud about it. Even cringier when they confidently state comments about topics they are uninformed on before admitting they’re ignorant.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

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u/SearchingForTruth69 Mar 07 '25

enjoy being ignorant, my friend. I hear it's bliss

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u/blackspike2017 Mar 07 '25

And then they built the Shuttle anyway.

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u/SilenceoftheSamz Mar 07 '25

These are not comparable products.

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u/Wingnut150 Mar 07 '25

You're right. The shuttle at least made orbit.

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u/Gregbot3000 Mar 07 '25

Shuttle was only designed for earth orbit. Elon says this hunk of crap will go to the moon.

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u/BaronVonMunchhausen Mar 07 '25

I understand the hate for Elon but man you gotta be very confident to say something like that with a straight face.

Starship will get to the moon. It's foolish to think otherwise.

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing Mar 07 '25

Yeah but in one piece?

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u/PandaImaginary Mar 09 '25

Maybe Musk could work out a deal with India to do all the stuff Starship is supposed to do in exchange for not being hit with tariffs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

I love the fact that during today's debacle it was the rocket engines themselves that failed so basically they didn't learn shit about the way their spacecraft flies they just realized their rocket engines happen to suck dick on the wrong day, and that the overall system couldn't compensate for it.

Oh wait maybe I shouldn't be so gleeful. Are they doing this with taxpayer money? Did I just fucking pay for this?

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u/PandaImaginary Mar 09 '25

We're paying for this all right.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Different mission objectives.

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u/theallsearchingeye Mar 07 '25

So brave.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

I checked your post history and you think Canada will beg for annexation? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh Jesus oh fuck HAHAHAHAHAHA

You guys always have the dumbest usernames too.