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They definitely did go into full PR mode after they lost signal to the drone ship. But I think they did that in part because this launch had so many moving part
by debt 9y ago
They definitely did go into full PR mode after they lost signal to the drone ship. But I think they did that in part because this launch had so many moving parts that if someone had just tuned in to that moment and seen a massive rocket exploding against the drone ship they may have thought that the launch had fail.
And considering that the core booster landing on the drone ship was a mere side benefit of the overall launch it was probably the best thing to do.
- rphlx 9y agoThey are clearly in an unenviable position but I think they would have come off better with a more honest, direct acknowledgement of the failure of a tertiary objective, rather than that "oh noes, might derail the emotive hype-train, let's awkwardly pretend we don't know what happened and just hope the audience forgets", which is fairly patronizing and not particularly effective at achieving its intended goal. An awkward, ineffective cover-up is worse than just telling the truth and moving on.