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President-elect Donald Trump’s granddaughter Kai has posted a behind-the-scenes video from Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket launch in Texas.
Kai, the 17-year-old daughter of Donald Trump Jr., has been a major public supporter of her grandfather.
In the video she posted to X, Kai can be seen flying in a private jet with a friend to attend the launch.
After she arrives, Musk can be seen talking to her grandfather and Sen. Ted Cruz.
“It only comes back to land if everything is, like, super green,” Musk explains to Trump and Sen. Cruz in the video. “And then we had some concerns about the tower, so it was commanded to land out in sea.”
“Amazing. Can they use that again?” Trump asks. “Can they get it from the sea?”
“It’s going to be … probably blow up,” Musk replies. “It’s probably going to blow up is my guess. But, that’s fine. We actually have better versions that are in production in those factories over there.”
Musk explained that he already had another rocket, which was “better” than the one launched that day.
“So, what makes it better?” Cruz inquires.
“The specific next one we have has a lot of small improvements,” Musk explains. “There’s a big version increase that’ll be flying next year. That’s got the version three of our engines — that’ll look very different. It will be longer and have a lot more thrust and have the new generation engines.”
Watching a Rocket Launch at SpaceX with Elon Musk! pic.twitter.com/9YvhWALM4P
— Kai Trump (@kaitrump) November 26, 2024
“If it doesn’t blow up, we do have ships to try to bring it back,” Musk said. “And then we can inspect it to learn more.”
Reuters reports:
The roughly 400-foot-tall (122-meter-tall) rocket system, designed to land astronauts on the moon and ferry crews to Mars, lifted off at 4 p.m. CT (2200 GMT) from SpaceX’s sprawling rocket development site in Boca Chica, Texas.
The rocket’s 233-foot-tall (71-metre-tall) first stage booster, called Super Heavy, detached from its second stage, Starship, at roughly 40 miles (62 km) in altitude, sending the craft into space.
Super Heavy unexpectedly splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico instead of returning to land, where it was expected to fall into large mechanical arms attached to the tower it launched from. The last-minute diversion to water indicated something went wrong.
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