Founder SpaceX , billionaire Elon Musk reacted to the explosion of his prototype Mars ship Starship. He wrote about this on his Twitter.
First, he reported about the “successful takeoff of the ship, switching to the upper tanks and precise control of the flaps to the moment of landing.
Then he posted a photo of the ship in flight. The number 42 was drawn on one of the rocket nozzles, referring to the book Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In this work, she is the answer to “The main question of life, the universe and all that”, the search for which the supercomputer “Thinker” spent seven and a half million years of calculations. Musk signed the picture with this phrase.
A prototype of SpaceX’s reusable Starship spacecraft exploded and burned up during tests earlier 10 October. The broadcast was conducted on the company’s YouTube channel. The device collapsed during landing, when it touched the landing pad. At the same time, before that, he safely started from a training ground in Texas and reached the planned height.