The Great Ongoing Space Exploration Thread

There’s a bit more conversation happening in the dedicated Starship thread, BTW:
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-development-and-progress-previous-title-will-musks-starship-reach-orbit-this-year

Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) is a fun phrase, but it’s been in use for a while now. Aerospace engineers love these sorts of euphemisms, such as lithobraking (slamming into the Earth) and engine-rich exhaust (exhaust can be fuel rich or oxygen rich, but engine-rich means that the engine itself is burning).