coming in right here to cnn news, central. what a morning. this has been things you almost never see the huge starship from space x the rocket it did successfully lift off from the launch pad off the coast of texas. that part went well, not so much after that. what was going on in space, it seemed the rocket could not separate from its booster. the spaceship could not separate from its booster and right there. it just exploded. after a few minutes in the air. cnn s ed lavandera is on south padre island in texas, where the launch took place. the good part took place the bad part ed miles above you explain what happened. well as you can see, the launch pad of smoke from the launch has finally been blown back inland, but that launched cleared the launch pad and this area erupted in cheers as the rocket ship cleared the launch pad and we saw it go straight up for several minutes. and so that was a spectacular sight, and it was about that three minute mark where we started anticip
then here a second round of intense rumbling and explosive sounds guessing. that is probably the point where things went exactly wrong from our vantage point here on the ground miles away, impossible to tell, but we re hoping to gather more information to determine exactly why the separation wasn t able to happen. was it caused by cruz here on the ground, or was it something? technical onboard the rocket ship. that is something we don t have. an answer to him will continue to monitor. but by all accounts, many people, at least the people who are you know aficionados of watching these types of space programs. everyone kind of viewing this as a success. even elon musk john on sunday night was preparing people for a catastrophic failure. he was hoping at least saying publicly that he was hoping that the rocket would clear the launch pad so there wouldn t be some epic firework explosion there on the launch pad, which would be a costly process of rebuilding all of all of that infrastructure