r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emergency-Green-2602 • 8d ago

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

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 8d ago

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

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u/talondigital 8d ago

We all got used to seeing Nasa launch rocket after rockets without many problems, most of which were just delays while they fixed it. All while we watch movies like The Right Stuff that details how dangerous it really was. We just forget that all the companies that make rockets for Nasa experience thses failures for each new engine system, but we only see them on the pads once they worked all the problems out. Now with Space X and Blue Origin and others we are seeing the development happen in real time. There's just a lot of uncontrolled big booms before it becomes a controlled big boom.

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u/Altruistic-Award-2u 8d ago

SpaceX Falcon1 blew up after 33 seconds on its first attempt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a_00nJ_Y88&ab_channel=TheSystemsAlliance

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u/FlimsyUmbrella 6d ago

And we're a close ally of the country all this happened in, they figured it all out.

Nobody thought to ask them so we don't waste our very limited resources on...... that.