Trump Comes to Watch as Elon Musk's Spacecraft Crashes Into the Ocean and Explodes

Awkward.Swing and a MissOn Tuesday afternoon, president-elect Donald Trump attended his new buddy SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s rocket launch, like a hands-off dad showing up at his son’s softball game.But Musk didn’t exactly hit it out of the park this time around. Unfortunately for the tycoon, minutes after the gigantic rocket took off from SpaceX’s testing facilities in South Texas, the space company called for a “booster offshore divert” that derailed the show.The original plan was to catch Starship’s gigantic Super Heavy booster with SpaceX’s massive, chopstick arms-wielding tower —…

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