>> I don't know much about rocketry There you go. You are welcome to try and disagree with decades of rocket launch practices. The range safety officer can b

>> I don't know much about rocketry There you go. You are welcome to try and disagree with decades of rocket launch practices. The range safety officer can blow up the rocket if the rocket veers off and is in danger of overshooting the safe area. Otherwise, you know the reason why we launch over water? Since it doesn't goddamn matter after it clears the tower and clears the danger zone. It either blows up over water, and who cares, it lands in the water, who cares, or it blows up in the upper atmosphere, and who cares. Also, the rocket blowing itself up is a reference to the fact that if it is going off course, there is damn good chance it will destroy itself since aerodynamic forces are calculated to a specific launch window with upper weather. If not following a calculated path, good chance it will rip itself apart. Also many abort modes are disabled for the first few seconds in flight so a dumb human or computer wont accidentally trigger a abort after flight starts and blow up the launch pad