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On April 20th, journalist Ashley Vance was watching a SpaceX's Starship Rocket lifted off from its launch pad in Texas.

Yeah, I was, I was streaming that sucker like a lot of other people waiting to see what happened.

What happened depends a bit on your point of view.

At around three minutes and 40 seconds into the flight, the rocket seemed like it was spinning.

We're seeing from the ground cameras the entire Starship stack continuing to rotate.

We should have had separation by now.

Obviously this does not appear to be a normal situation.

But Ashley has been to rocket launches all over the world as part of the research for his book,

when the heavens went on sale.

And he saw something different.

For a new rocket like this, especially the world's largest rocket that's quite complicated.

You know, not blowing up on the pad is a victory because that destroys a lot of hard work and you get no data from what's going on.

You know, it ended up flying about four minutes, which for a first rocket is actually pretty good.

I think I've gone through almost every rocket launch that's happened.

I don't think anyone's made it with a new rocket on the first attempt.

As someone who just finished writing a book about this,

when you watched that moment,

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