The two side boosters came down safely but the center core narrowly missed the landing on SpaceX's drone ship & exploded on impact with the water
rocket
He was killed instantly
OneSpace is still investigating the cause of the launch failure
According to the suspect, "jihad is an obligation and they should all martyr in an attack"
The orbital version is expected to be complete around June
Among other things is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that put humans on the moon for the first time
The cabin of the Challenger actually escaped the explosion mostly intact
Musk: The company never designed redundancy into that system because landing the rockets was always a secondary priority after getting the payloads into orbit
The first time a Boeing 747 has ever carried a rocket in flight
The rocket belongs to a startup called Astra