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
and as john just mentioned, it s not exactly the most successful thing we ve ever seen, but people were cheering. why were they cheering? what happened? that went well. this mishap is a minor speed bump because we re talking about a new chapter in the history of lunar exploration . look at the big picture. even mature rockets misfired 1% of the time. that s normal, but we re talking about a new chapter in lunar exploration exploration. first reusable rockets. this is the first time in history. that we had reusable lunar rockets, which in turn will reduce the cost by a factor of 3 to 4 opening up the heavens for mom and dad. and second of all, there is a new vision and new vision, not just beat. the russians know this new vision is to create an interplanetary uber system, a taxi cab system throughout the solar system. this is not an ordinary rocket. it s not named after a greek god , it s a starship is for the