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‘Yikes’: While gaming, Musk inadvertently broadcasts ‘scary’ near-abort of Starship booster landing


Elon Musk occasionally posts clips of his video game plays to his social media platform X — but a recent clip includes background audio of a SpaceX

The clip, posted on Friday, was caught by Reuters’ Joey Roulette on X, but it’s not clear if the conversation between Musk and Starship engineers occurred that same day. “We wouldn’t have predicted the exact right place, but this cover that ripped off was right on top of a bunch of the single point failure valves that must work during the landing burn. The full context of the conversation is not clear, as the clip posted to X is only about three minutes long, but it shows that even seemingly flawless rocket launches (and in this case, booster landings) can come perilously close to disaster.

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