Elon Musk tweets video of SpaceX rocket's crash landing
Elon Musk isn't afraid to admit when things go wrong.
The SpaceX founder tweeted out a video on Thursday of the company's rocket crashing as it attempted to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Of course, Iron Man, errr, Musk, shouldn't feel too bad. SpaceX stuck three consecutive landings before Thursday's fail -- plus, the Falcon 9 rocket did accomplish its mission of launching two communications satellites into orbit.
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Musk, who wants to put humans on Mars and thinks robots might kill us all, seemed to take the crash in stride.
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That is probably because he knows that if he can successfully relaunch a rocket, SpaceX will have a serious leg up on the competition.
Currently, NASA and private spaceflight companies waste millions of dollars on each launch because the rockets are destroyed. Eventually, however, SpaceX wants to send a successfully landed Falcon 9 back into space. This was a step back, obviously. But it looks like Musk is staying optimistic.
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Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.
