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Second Starship prototype launch ends in fireball for SpaceX
Wire reports
For the second time in two months, a test flight of SpaceX s Starship, the spacecraft founder Elon Musk intends will one day be sent to Mars, ended in an explosive landing.
The craft flew to an altitude of about 6 miles and then was meant to reorient itself to prepare for a landing. It was meant to look like a controlled belly flop, according to a story in the New York Times.
Instead, when the engines fired to switch back to a vertical orientation, one engine appeared not to property ignite and the prototype hit the ground at an angle, smashing into a fireball and leaving a cloud of smoke rising over the test site in Boca Chica, Texas, the Times reported.
Khristian Jones is a senior aerospace engineering student at Wichita State University, and one of the co-founders of the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship.
The Patti Grace Smith Fellowship, an official spin-off of the Brooke Owens Fellowship, provides Black undergraduate students with paid summer internships at aerospace companies and nonprofits. The fellowship was launched in 2020, is named after Patti Grace Smith, an aerospace industry leader who worked to overcome a system of legalized racial segregation and ran the
Federal Aviation Administration‘s (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
In this episode, we talk to Khristian about what sparked her passion for STEM, and how the Patti Grace Smith fellowship is empowering Black excellence in aerospace.
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