SpaceX News: Another Flying Trashcan Explodes

By Diego Garcia III | Editor of The Brownsville Beacon

 In other news local media outlets failed to report, this past Friday saw another one of Elon Musk's flying trashcans exploded during a pressure test.

 A YouTube video posted by NASASpaceFlight shows the Starship SN1 prototype sitting vertically on what appears to be a launch pad. The prototype appears to explode and launches into the air as the bottom portion of the prototype seems to buckle in on itself. The rocket then falls back to the ground. Debris can be seen flying from the rocket as a secondary explosion envelops the prototype.

 A second video posted by NASA Space Flight shows the crumpled fuselage folded over a fire-damaged skeletal structure.

 The prototype seems to have suffered a catastrophic failure during a "cryogenic pressure test" when one of its fuel tanks filled with liquid nitrogen.

 This isn't the first flying trashcan to blow up during the test phase. In 2019, the MK1 Starship prototype blew its top during a test flight sending debris sprawling all over the launch facility.

 SpaceX has lied to the community with its promise of high-paying jobs, bimonthly rocket launches to deliver satellites into space; they have lied to the residents of Boca Chica Village as they try to remove them to make room for the SpaceX Village, and now their rockets are exploding and releasing dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere.

 SpaceX is aiming for the stars but can't even make it past the Gulf of Mexico.
Watch the videos of the explosion and the aftermath here:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=73&v=sYeVnGL7fgw&feature=emb_logo

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4C0wfRSUNQ

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