New Footage Shows Dodge Caravan’s Final Moments Before SpaceX Starship Explodes

Posted by tpc3 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:05PM
from the thedrive.com dept.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/new-pov-footage-shows-dodge-caravans-final-moments-before-spacex-starship-explodes

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Re:New Footage Shows Dodge Caravan’s Final Moments Before Sp... by rektide on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:49PM (#35707788)

Nice of the debris to miss the expensive camera gear. ;)

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Re:New Footage Shows Dodge Caravan’s Final Moments Before Sp... by Arrath on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:39PM (#35708134)

Yikes! Those are some big hunks of concrete flying 1400'

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Re:New Footage Shows Dodge Caravan’s Final Moments Before Sp... by db48x on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @09:32PM (#35708805)

> Upon their arrival, the team inspected the damage to the Dodge and the camera gear knocked loose by the explosion.

I don’t get why people keep saying things like this.

The rocket exploded three minutes after the car was damaged, and 25 miles further away. The explosion didn’t knock anything loose.

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Re:New Footage Shows Dodge Caravan’s Final Moments Before Sp... by exabrial on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:24PM (#35709078)

I would love to see a dodge caravan parked 1400 feet from the SRBs during a space shuttle launch... specifically downstream in the flame trench. That would have been a party!

Why don't we do these things more often? This could be really fun. Reminds me of the time Top Gear tried to get a Tacoma to "stop running".

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