Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket was reported to have exploded on Wednesday, while returning to Earth from Mars.
According to the report by TMZ, the Elon MUsk’s SpaceX rocket nearly completed the successful test flight Wednesday at its facility in South Texas, but exploded minutes after a clean launch and reutrn trip to earth.
SN10’s launch was delayed due to a sputtering engine earlier in the day, but fired up for lift-off around 3 PM PT. It completed its route — which wasn’t meant to go too far up and touched down again, seemingly without a hitch.
The official SpaceX broadcast cut out before folks at home could see it blow up, but other streams that were monitoring the action live sure caught the blast, the report said.
You can hear someone who was watching it talk about a methane leak, but SpaceX has not said what caused the blast.
Elon’s said prior failures were just part of the process