This is CBS, I Am The World. I'm John Bachelorette. Rapid on scheduled disassembly. That's

a quote from Elon Musk. He's applied it to SpaceX and now we welcome Joe Papalardo,

running for National Geographic on the success of Starship Super Heavy. Joe is also an

author of the Texas Ranger Adventure Red Sky Morning. Right now, the skies over Boca

Ticket, Texas were in flame and fire. Joe, you were there. Wow. I've watched a video

on your story in National Geographic. Loud, crackling loud, a controlled explosion. What was

your sensation of watching this and you were with the media five miles away on South

Padre Island, I believe. Good evening, too. Yeah, good evening. And yeah, that was quite

disrespectful as as promised, right? You get used to seeing SpaceX do some pretty audacious

feats of engineering, but this one was probably just took the cake. The biggest rocket ever

made, most powerful rocket ever made, staggering off of a launch pad, emerging from this plume

of dust and debris to claw to weight, you know, in front of all of us is clearly alien.

And then spinning out of control and you can feel those engines really just ripping through

the air and an amazing spectacle that honestly, especially at the time, getting away from

the launch pad, not burning the entire thing to a crust, seemed like a huge achievement.

And there's been damage to the pad and it was, I mean, the amount of, you know, they did

a full burn, three minutes of those engines just firing and going, the amount of data

collected is priceless. The countdown went according to plan, I believe there was one

hold, maybe more. So you were there on a bright Texas morning. What were you expecting,

Joe? You're a veteran of watching rockets. You're a veteran of NASA. What was the dream

that you had at that moment? The dream was that starship would separate and coast to

land in Hawaii. That was, that was what I wanted more than anything. I wanted to see the

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