the most powerful rocket ever built a major setback, but not a total failure in the goal of sending humans to mars. one day basketball rules into a man s yard and he opens fire on the neighbors just trying to retrieve it. now a six year old and her father recovering from gunshot wounds. and a manhunt is underway for the suspect. this guy is not a stranger to local police. this is just for the country also latest example of an innocent mistake leading to a shooting and right now, more than 50 million people are under a severe storm threat after a tornado outbreak already tears apart parts of three states. at least three people are dead as search and rescue efforts continue. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. we begin with liftoff and spacex s historic starship rocket, but it s planned journey around the earth didn t last long. just take a look. part into the power was icing on the cake. alright so despite
think that i want that. let s dig deeper now with cnn aerospace analyst miles o brien , miles. ultimately the rocket cleared the launch pad. we saw it get into sort of space spacex tweeted out that success comes from what we learned so what did they learn? well i think failure is an option at space checks. they are space enterprise that is all about rapid testing. failing fast and moving forward . this is serial number 24 for starship. they ve had four actually 4.5 fiery mishaps in the years leading up to this moment, and so it really doesn t come as too much of a surprise you re talking about getting 33 engines to work in perfect synchronicity with all the plumbing and pressurization and computers and electronic doing all that. well it takes a lot so you can walk away from that and
step in this process of trying to perfect the starship rocket system, but it was a spectacular scene here. as this rocket launched, clearing the launch pad, and for several minutes it was a thunderous and exhilarating experience as we saw that rocket fly for some time, but then about three minutes or so in the rockets started kind of spinning out of control. that was about the time that this massive booster with the 33 engines. was supposed to separate from the starship rocket. that did not happen. the rocket ship did not make it into orbit either exploded, coming apart, falling into the gulf of mexico. and what is interesting , brianna is that today here is a little known fact. but the first crew that will eventually ride in this starship rocket. six of those eight members have already been picked. and six of those eight we re here today. witnessing them. one of them is a man by the name of yemi mandela. here is a check
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the most powerful rocket ever built a major setback, but not a total failure in the goal of sending humans to mars. one day basketball rules into a man s yard and he opens fire on the neighbors just trying to retrieve it. now a six year old and her father recovering from gunshot wounds. and a manhunt is underway for the suspect. this guy is not a stranger to local police. this is just for the country also latest example of an innocent mistake leading to a shooting and right now, more than 50 million people are under a severe storm threat after a tornado outbreak already tears apart parts of three states. at least three people are dead as search and rescue efforts continue. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central.