Starship's explosion last week is 'not a big downer,' according to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, who expects SpaceX to fly its megarocket again in two months.
. “They are hardware rich meaning they’ve got a lot of those rockets ready to go,” he continued. “They launch. If something goes wrong, they figure out what it is, they go back and they launch it again.”on April 20 for a less-than-perfect orbital test flight. About four minutes after the rocket launched from Boca Chica, Texas, Starship exploded in the skies above the Gulf of Mexico.
Despite its untimely explosion, Nelson reiterated SpaceX’s timeline of repairing Starship’s launchpad and preparing another Starship vehicle for flight in at least two months. The ambitious timeline may not be entirely up to Elon Musk’s private space venture, however, since the
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