Don’t wait for the landing.”On a webcast provided by NASAspaceflight.com, a space news website that carries the Starship flights, debris could be seen crashing down. NASA has awarded SpaceX a $135 million contract to help develop Starship so that it might fly astronauts to the moon as part of its Artemis program. “Unlike its aircraft division, which is fine, the FAA space division has a fundamentally broken regulatory structure,” he wrote. The waiver was denied, but SpaceX proceeded with the flight anyway, violating its launch license and, industry officials said, potentially putting the public at risk. Still, it was “another great flight,” Insprucker, SpaceX’s principal integration engineer, said during a broadcast of the event.

Source: Washington Post March 30, 2021 14:03 UTC