Car Gets Hit by Debris During SpaceX Launch

Debris coming from https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/ SpaceX Starship's launch in south Texas damaged a car on Thursday, April 20. Footage posted to Twitter by @LabPadre shows a vehicle being engulfed in a cloud of debris and suffering damage immediately after the launch. According to https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1649045802332073986?s=20 SpaceX , the giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off from its launchpad on Thursday morning and https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-launch-elon-musk-d9989401e2e07cdfc9753f352e44f6e2 crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Elon Musk's company was aiming to send the nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. It carried no people or satellites. The flight plan had called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after liftoff, but that didn't happen. The rocket began to tumble and then exploded four minutes into the flight, plummeting into the gulf. (Footage by @LabPadre/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)