Trump has way too much time and hubris in truth social to abandon it. Unless the spac merger fails, at which point the company is dead.
Even trump knows if he started posting on the twit his baby would be abandoned
@mattblaze Musk could offer an interview to Trump, challenging him to also crash the systems with his own alleged popularity. That would be fair and balanced.
@mattblaze dont they stress test their own systems before a big day. Bonkers. They could have tested any other day and nobody would have noticed. Botching up a presidential candidate's announcement takes a whole different level of unpreparedness.
@cassidy@mattblaze
I wonder how long he's going to be in the decision tree at Boca Chica. He's not actually in charge of anything at SpX (arguably that's why they're in business) but they let him make Starship engineering decisions. That program now has the former NASA deputy admin for cargo & human spaceflight and she's moving there
Fwiw the rocket was fine. The failure was the launchpad and arguably predictable. The fix is questionable & hopefully overridden or it'll be his last decision
@cassidy
The failure was literally the most powerful rocket ever launched dumped all its power at ignition against a concrete pad, which cratered and threw debris into the engine bay. There were at least 7 engine outs, four on liftoff (the nature of the rocket means you can count them from the photos)
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