This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Bachelors from the surface of the planet Earth. We head to

Boca Chica, Texas. The day after the event, Bob Zimmerman is here. He keeps the website

behind the black. Bob, I assert that I hear repeatedly now in media from the informed

that the first test of starship on Super Heavy was a success. Do you agree and why success

Bob? It's said to have failed. Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Yeah, well, this

was probably the most successful failure I've seen in a very, very long time. I should say

that a lot of uninformed media outlets have in their headlines, starships, super heavy exploded,

and it did not explode. It did not explode. What happened was it launched, cleared the launch

tower of super heavy function remarkably well for its very first time. Very first time,

they fired the engines on this thing for a standard bird to lift off. It reached the point

when they're supposed to do stage separation. Engine cut off and then stage separation

starship would then fly out its own, ignite its engines and head up the orbit. But it did

not separate as planned. It appears that Super Heavy with the two still connected attempt

to do its flip whereby it would reposition itself to return back to the ground, but it still

had starship attached. The thing began to tumble. It was very clearly struggling to write

itself because it had that extra weight on it. After a period of time, and the very clearly

engineers at SpaceX in conjunction with the range, waited a long time before they initiated

the flight termination system, which is the self-destruct button. The reason they waited

was probably twofold. One, they wanted to make sure the thing was far enough out to see

and clear over the land so that when it didn't, they did self-destruct any debris that hit

the ground, would hit the water and not hurt anybody. Secondly, the longer they wait, the

more data they collect, which is the whole point of this launch. This launch, hoping to

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