The Starship blast

 Daily Mail:

Elon Musk's doomed Starship rocket sprayed debris over Texas coast and damaged car parked miles away as it obliterated its launch pad on takeoff - as FAA grounds the fleet after explosion

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The explosion on Thursday occurred when the rocket failed to separate over the Gulf of Mexico, prompting SpaceX bosses to destroy it.

Its mission was supposed to see the craft blast 150 miles high into the atmosphere before cruising for an hour and crashing into the Pacific Ocean.

The rocket took off with promise when Starship ignited its 33 Raptor engines and lifted off the launch pad at 1,242 miles per hour.

It reached a height of around 25 miles above the Earth when it was supposed to separate so that the booster would fall back to Earth and into the Gulf of Mexico,

But the separation failed, sending the rocket into a spin and within seconds, the rocket detonated over the ocean.
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There is more.

A classmate of mine from high school lives on Padre Island across the water from the Boca Chica launch site and he posted a picture of how the explosion shook up the artwork on his walls.   There are more pictures of the damage it caused at the link above.

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