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have rotated and should have had separation. this is not a nominal situation. i do want to remind everyone, everything after clearing the tower was icing on the cake. neil: all right. icing on the cake. mission control putting a positive spin on spacex s giant new star ship rocket blowing up shortly after lift off. luckily nobody was on board when the booster rocket failed to peel away, tumbled and exploded four minutes in. such are the risks if you think about it when planning manned missions to the moon and mars and beyond. we got you covered all over the place with jonathan serrie on what went wrong. ashley webster on more americans flogging to see the launches. tom jones on the rewards that outway the risks. and actor william shatner that took that risk and is here to tell us about it. it s straight ahead on a rocketing your world or out of your world. see what i did this? welcome, everybody. very glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with jonatha ....
bret: but breaking tonight, there are growing questions about the biden administration s policy on china. while the president talks tough, critics say president biden appears to be taking a kid glove approach in several key areas. we have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. looks at how the american military is preparing for a conflicted with beijing possibly. we begin hour with white house correspondent peter doocy on the white house s north lawn and the president s reluctance to push china too hard. that s exactly right officials are putting out the word they are not trying to beat china economically or at anything. but they are trying to make things more competitive with china by taking some pieces off the board. mr. president, welcome. peter: as mr. biden talks colombia. key to the hemisphere. peter: and climate change. we are at a moment of great peril but great opportunities. treasury secretary teasing a move to move u.s. busine ....
Rocketing your world or out of your world. see what i did this? welcome, everybody. very glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with jonathan serrie playing the role of astronaut today and what happened today. this was not a manned flight. it was a test. it did teach them a lot of things, didn t it? yeah, they were able to collect a lot of data. because there were no astronauts on board, they were able to take some risks. really learn in real time whatever was to unfold. again, because this thing did not blow up on the launch pad, they consider ate success. this is the first time that spacex was able to test fly its star ship space craft while attached to the super heavy rocket booster that will one day launch it in to space. spacex employees and spectators cheered as starship lifted off from the texas coast. about four minutes into flight, the space craft failed to separate from the booster after a series of rolls. the 394 foot long star ship broke apart over the gulf ....
Moon, get astronauts too and from the surface of the moon. that is a ways off. what do you make of the timetable? it s aggressive. it is aggressive. i think elon musk and spacex have a record of producing and meeting technical goals. but they have often been behind schedule. the worry here in the 2020s that the star ship and the booster could take awhile to perfect and would shift and delay the first he man return to the moon downstream. then we worry about whether china will try to preempt the u.s. in returning to the moon. neil: yeah, i know china is trying to make that a top priority. i feel tempted, tom, and you re the hero here. i would be the tacky american to say, been there, done that more than 50 years ago, china. congratulations. but it s an issue of more than pride here on the second assault on the lunar surface considering all of our aggressive plans to ....
Every day. we re very passionate here at spacex. and these things happen in the beginning of our space program. who can forget vanguard rockets crashing on the pad just to get it right. it s not easy, it s not fast but it does come. tom jones knows it well. sky-walking author with us to outline the significance of today. when we were talking about this, people were very excited. you heard all the clapping. for a while, where is this clapping coming from? it was from the control room itself, a lot of people still clapping even after the explosion here. to be fair, it was an unmanned flight. but they think that they got a lot of things ironed out here. the whole idea is we re learning from this, right? right. lit off 33 first stage engines for the first time, looking the booster off of the pad. ....