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This is a bit of spin by SpaceX. Blowing up the pad would be a serious failure and would be a large and costly setback. But they obviously didn't achieve the go

This is a bit of spin by SpaceX. Blowing up the pad would be a serious failure and would be a large and costly setback. But they obviously didn't achieve the goal of the test flight here. It is a test flight, so it's not a complete failure and not entirely unexpected. But it's not a full success either, significant parts that were planned to be tested could not be tested because the rocket failed early.

mgfist 4y ago
> significant parts that were planned to be tested could not be tested I don't think "planned" is the right word - the right word is "hoped".
moffkalast 4y ago
Well the flight plan was to throw both stages into the ocean, so they couldn't have been overly confident about getting that far.
- lupyro 4y ago
  I'm pretty sure they planned on the booster to land on a barge in the ocean
  - stetrain 4y ago
    No barge, just a touchdown on the water.
adastra22 4y ago
For the record, they did blow up the pad.
- cubefox 4y ago
  At least there was no explosion on the pad, which would have been much worse.