After SpaceX’s eighth suborbital flight test of its Starship megarocket ended in an explosion, MSNBC hosts criticized CEO Elon Musk for the mishap, urging him to focus on his day job. The flight successfully caught Starship’s Super Heavy booster but experienced issues with the upper stage spinning uncontrollably in space. The FAA issued ground stops for Florida airports, triggering a mishap investigation while SpaceX vowed to learn from the incident to improve Starship’s reliability.
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4.1 earthquake rattles Southern California, centered near Malibu
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake centered north of Malibu caused light and weak shaking across Southern California, with the strongest shaking felt in Malibu, Agoura Hills, Thousand Oaks, and Camarillo. The temblor was followed by several aftershocks, with the largest being 3.0 magnitude, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The epicenter was in the Santa Monica Mountains, 3 miles northwest of El Matador State Beach and 7 miles southwest of Thousand Oaks, with shaking...
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