SPACEX: Rare fail.Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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SPACEX: Rare fail.Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launch-experiences-a-failure-of-upper-stage/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I on the world, behind the black. Happy birthday behind the black. |
| 0:08.0 | Happy birthday behind the black. 14 years of looking very, very into the future but the future is here |
| 0:15.7 | commercial space we begin with a SpaceX launch that experienced anomalies |
| 0:22.0 | Bob a very good evening to you. |
| 0:24.2 | An anomaly on a SpaceX launch is unusual. |
| 0:27.0 | It's actually newsmaking. |
| 0:28.3 | What happened? |
| 0:29.3 | Newsmaking, John, it's so unusual. |
| 0:31.9 | It's astonishing. |
| 0:32.6 | Just to give some perspective, |
| 0:35.0 | this was a lawsuit last night, |
| 0:36.6 | but to give some perspective, |
| 0:39.4 | the last SpaceX launch failure of any kind occurred in June of 2015. |
| 0:46.8 | That's almost a decade ago, almost a decade, |
| 0:50.4 | a decade of launches, which they did 344 successful launches in a row, with nothing going |
| 1:00.3 | wrong. |
| 1:01.4 | Every launch succeeding, every launch delivering its payload, every |
| 1:04.9 | launch returning the first stage. This is just astonishing record. It's unmatched by |
| 1:10.9 | any other rocket ever in the history of space exploration |
| 1:15.1 | but last night they did have something go wrong for the first time |
| 1:18.3 | uh... and it must the first day first day took off it landed as planned it's completed its 19th flight but the upper stage during the initial burn after |
| 1:29.5 | stage separation the video the live stream showed what looked like a leak coming out of the |
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