Elon Musk's big SpaceX rocket explodes on test flight

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.3 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Starship rocket -- the biggest ever developed -- started to tumble a few minutes into the maiden flight, and was destroyed by its onboard automated system. Also: criminal charges have been dropped against the US actor Alec Baldwin regarding a shooting on a film set in 2021, and what age do you think is the oldest windsurfer in the world?

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0:00.0	The documentary from the BBC World Service brings the globe to your ears through
0:06.1	original documentary storytelling. Search for the documentary wherever you
0:11.7	get your BBC podcasts. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World
0:19.0	Service. I'm Janak Jaleel and in the early hours of Friday the 21st of April
0:26.0	these are our main stories. The largest and most powerful rocket ever built
0:30.8	Elon Musk's Starship has exploded minutes after its first successful launch.
0:36.0	The Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin has been cleared of all charges for his
0:41.0	involvement in a fateful shooting on a movie set. As fighting continues in Sudan
0:46.4	the UN Secretary-General calls for a ceasefire to coincide with the Muslim
0:50.7	Festival of Eid. Also in this podcast the biggest challenge is to learn how to
0:59.6	control the element nature because it's about embracing the wind, the water, the
1:04.6	wobbly board. The 88 year old man aiming to become the world's oldest wind
1:10.4	surfer. Elon Musk's SpaceX company's new rocket Starship, the largest and
1:20.3	most powerful ever made has exploded on its maiden flight minutes after taking
1:26.1	off. No one was hurt as there were no crew on board. This comes after a
1:30.8	previous attempt to launch the rocket which stands at 120 meters tall was
1:35.9	aborted. But SpaceX engineers deemed the fact that the rocket was eventually
1:40.7	able to take off a success as they worked towards the goal of one day taking
1:45.9	astronauts to the moon to Mars or even beyond. NASA's chief sent his
1:51.6	congratulations saying he was looking forward to the next test flight. Our
1:56.4	science editor Rebecca Morel watched the launch. This was the moment Starship
2:05.0	blasted off. The huge rocket which stands 400 feet tall slowly pushed
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