{"id":150433,"date":"2022-11-17T16:23:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/watch-a-spacex-rocket-blow-up-during-abort-test"},"modified":"2022-11-17T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:23:32","slug":"watch-a-spacex-rocket-blow-up-during-abort-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/watch-a-spacex-rocket-blow-up-during-abort-test","title":{"rendered":"Watch a SpaceX rocket blow up during abort test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CUT8At4UM30?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One thing I learned today is that one of the many SpaceX explosions didn\u2019t have to happen. It turns out that NASA gave SpaceX the option of doing the in-flight abort test via simulation or in reality. The problem with doing it in reality is that SpaceX would likely lose an expensive rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing decided to do their in-flight abort test via simulation for their Starliner capsule. Luckily, SpaceX doesn\u2019t trust simulations and did it for real. I say luckily, because we are overdue to lose more humans in space. So far this century, Virgin Galactic has had 1 death and 1 serious injury, NASA has had 7 deaths, and Soyuz has injured 2 people bad enough to require hospitalization.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Dragon Crew Capsule safely blasted away from its carrier Falcon rocket in an test of its abort systems on Jan 19, 2020. The rocket exploded during descent as expected: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-launch-abort-test-success.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-launch-abort-test-success.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: SpaceX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I learned today is that one of the many SpaceX explosions didn\u2019t have to happen. It turns out that NASA gave SpaceX the option of doing the in-flight abort test via simulation or in reality. The problem with doing it in reality is that SpaceX would likely lose an expensive rocket. Boeing decided [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}