It’s two separate stories. The booster was caught perfectly, the top stage blew up.
I knew immediately because I was watching the feed where they said “we lost the top stage.”
The success is much more interesting than the failure, and more newsworthy.
Nothing was hidden or secret. In fact, for two years all I ever heard was people everywhere laughing that the rockets were blowing up, when the rockets were (and still are) experimental and prone to failure since they’re literally advancing rocket science.
It’s two separate stories. The booster was caught perfectly, the top stage blew up.
I knew immediately because I was watching the feed where they said “we lost the top stage.”
The success is much more interesting than the failure, and more newsworthy.
Nothing was hidden or secret. In fact, for two years all I ever heard was people everywhere laughing that the rockets were blowing up, when the rockets were (and still are) experimental and prone to failure since they’re literally advancing rocket science.