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Old April 26th 19, 03:33 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule destroyed in abort motor ground test

JF Mezei wrote on Fri, 26 Apr 2019
02:19:47 -0400:

On 2019-04-25 18:49, Fred J. McCall wrote:

No, it's not. When SpaceX knows something they will say it. Until
then there's nothing to say.


They haven't receleased video of the event, nor of the state of the
capsule after the event. These are facts they know.


They have better things to do than fuel a bunch of harassed
speculation. Neither of the things you list are 'facts' and the
second one probably isn't even true.


In the past, Musk had built expectations to see videos even of stuff
that doesn't quite go right.


Yes, yes, you were frightened by Musk when you were little. We get
it.


(In the rocket that exposded at pad, it was enthousisats who released
videos, not SpaceX, so there is precedent of SpaceX not releasing video
of a catastrophic failure.


Again for the totally clueless among us, SpaceX will undoubtedly
release video when they can explain what is going on in it.


I suspect SpaceX decided that allowing speculation of what happened is
better than confirming what happened.


Showing you a video with no explanation doesn't 'confirm' anything.


Have to wonder if SpaceX' hands
may be bound because this is a NASA contract/hardware.


Silly idea.


Either way, they will at one point have to release details of the
accident prior to resuling flight because NASA doesn't want to be seen
flying something which the public might deeem to be unsafe.


Yes, they will, and that's when they'll do it. When they can explain
what happened.


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