{"id":1549423,"date":"2022-07-11T21:04:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T01:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549423"},"modified":"2022-07-11T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T01:04:28","slug":"not-good-elon-musk-says-team-is-assessing-damage-after-spacex-test-rocked-by-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-good-elon-musk-says-team-is-assessing-damage-after-spacex-test-rocked-by-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not Good\u2019: Elon Musk Says Team Is \u2018Assessing Damage\u2019 After SpaceX Test Rocked By Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-good-elon-musk-says-team-is-assessing-damage-after-spacex-test-rocked-by-explosion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CEO and founder Elon Musk responded after a sudden explosion rocked SpaceX\u2019s testing facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s Super Heavy Booster \u2014 designed to help forward Musk\u2019s dream of eventually colonizing Mars \u2014 was the subject of Monday\u2019s test, and a livestream from NASA Space Flight captured video of the <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/starship-booster-explodes-unexpectedly-during-test-1849166744\">explosion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Managing editor Chris Bergin shared the video along with the comment, \u201cHoly moly. Well, that was unexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk replied, \u201cYeah, actually not good. Team is assessing damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yeah, actually not good. Team is assessing damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1546639772621365248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bergin added a second video clip from after the explosion, adding, \u201cBooster looks OK. Now depress venting. RIP Air Duct Line. PS The time of the event was 4:20 CDT of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Booster looks OK. Now depress venting. RIP Air Duct Line.<\/p>\n<p>PS The time of the event was 4:20PM CDT of course. \ud83d\ude05 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qbRaZYYnRQ\">pic.twitter.com\/qbRaZYYnRQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Bergin \u2013 NSF (@NASASpaceflight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASASpaceflight\/status\/1546606932894646277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA Space Flight commentators said that the explosion had not been planned, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/spacex-starship-booster-prototype-test-ends-in-unexpected-explosion-2022-7\">report<\/a> from Business Insider \u2014 and Musk\u2019s response appeared to support that claim. SpaceX reportedly did not announce any scheduled engine test-fire ahead of time the way the company usually did, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports suggested that the booster was to be used to fly a rocket into Earth\u2019s orbit in July, but the appropriate testing does not appear to have been done in order to meet such a short deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has also been in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-elon-musk-blows-up-twitter-deal\/\">recent headlines<\/a> after sending a letter Friday \u2014 via attorneys \u2014 demanding to be released from his $44 billion offer to buy social media platform Twitter. Musk claimed that despite numerous requests, Twitter has repeatedly failed to provide him with information regarding the number of accounts on the platform that are fake\/\u201dbot\u201d accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotwithstanding these repeated requests over the past two months, Twitter has still failed to provide much of the data and information responsive to Mr.\u00a0Musk\u2019s repeated requests,\u201d the letter stated.<\/p>\n<p>The deal included a $1 billion \u201cbreak-up fee\u201d if either party were to back out of the contract, but Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/twitter-strikes-back-will-sue-elon-musk-for-walking-away\/\">has promised<\/a> to hold Musk to the original agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Board chair Bret Taylor tweeted, \u201cThe Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO and founder Elon Musk responded after a sudden explosion rocked SpaceX\u2019s testing facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, on Monday afternoon. The company\u2019s Super Heavy Booster \u2014 designed to help forward Musk\u2019s dream of eventually colonizing Mars \u2014 was the subject of Monday\u2019s test, and a livestream from NASA Space Flight captured video of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1549445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1549445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}