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Wow, that's wild!
Sounds like the hold-down clamps failed. Have there been any previous cases in history where static fires unexpectedly turned into non-static fires?
well there was that incident in '86 when the shuttle Atlantis was 'accidentally' launched with 4 kids aboard during an engine test. The documentary about it called Space Camp is riveting.
Few people know that one of those kids was now famous actor, Joaquin Phoenix. I watched that documentary many times and was shock to find out that people speak in a type of slow motion when in zero G.
Technically speaking it was low-G. None of Joachim Phoenix’s movies are strictly “zero-G”
it's fiction lmao
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
In surprised a failure like that led to it being launched straight up like that.
It means the rocket was just too good for those clamps