Video credit: LabPadre
Meme credit: u/rustybeancake
For those keeping score on Firefly Alpha’s track record:
Flight 1: failure
Flight 2: partial failure
Flight 3: success
Flight 4: partial failure
Flight 5: success
Flight 6: failure
Flight 7: today’s ground explosion
This compares to Astra Rocket 3.0’s track record of 2 successes out of 9 launch attempts (including ground failures).
Oh no, I’m developing empathy for Firefly. It sort of stings.
You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
Such a Texas video
Junkyard, highway traffic, and textbook mushroom cloud
The junkyard is across the highway from the test site and is where this was obviously filmed. I would also question calling this “Flight 7” as this is a test facility. No flights originate there.
This man beat Calgon and freed Southern Sun, we should trust him.
Certainly lives up to the fire part of the name
