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@SecurityWriter This was a *test* flight.

No one was injured. No property is known to be damaged except SpaceX's.

In 2023 so far, SpaceX has had 80 launches of their production Falcon 9 rocket and 4 launches of their Falcon Heavy rocket. That's more than many rocket have flown over their entire lifetime.

All missions were successful.

All first stage boosters, for which recovery was attempted, were successfully recovered.

Booster B1058 set a new fleet record, flying its 18th successful mission.

Without SpaceX, NASA would still buying rides to the International Space Station from Russia.

While Elon Musk is a major dick, and while SpaceX has some definite internal culture problems, SpaceX is in fact good at this space thing.

Meanwhile ESA is buying launches from SpaceX because ESA has no functional rockets to launch with.