What had just happened. As i said before this is an Unmanned Mission. Youll hear now the announcer speak for the first time. And we appear to have had a launch vehicle failure. There is little elt we know at this point. As the engineers try to find out what has happened. Elon musk the ceo of spacex tweeted the following. He says falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown. Well provide more info as soon as we review the data. Lets get to miles obrien on the phone. Miles, you have seen a video along with the rest of us. What do you see from it . What do you take away from it as an expert . Clearly its a catastrophic failure as they were about to jettison the first stage. You have to remember that everything that is happening in a rocket at a time is at the very edge of what we consider engineering capabilities. It doesnt take much of a weak link to cause what you saw just there. Incredible Dynamic Forces a lot of speed, and a lot of pressure on the structure itsel