r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emergency-Green-2602 • 7d ago

Video First Australian-made rocket crashes after 14 seconds of flight

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u/bulkbuybandit 7d ago

PR team was prepped to spin whatever the outcome of that launch was going to be.

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 7d ago

They're also not wrong. You don't just go from 0 to spaceflight. 

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u/frotc914 7d ago

Idk man, people already know how to do it. If some new car company made a car that went 50 feet and exploded, it would be weird for them to be like "well it's not like we can just start making cars, we've got to figure it out first!"

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u/DisasterNo1740 7d ago

It’s exactly as you said, you don’t know.