After a brief delay, the world’s largest rocket launched from Texas this morning in what is being described by SpaceX as a major moment for the advancement of rocketship technology. The launch didn’t go exactly to plan, though.

The spacecraft, which had no one aboard and is called Starship, eventually began to spin and later exploded not long after launching. SpaceX referred to the explosion as an intentional “rapid unscheduled disassembly” that occurred before stage separation. You can see the launch and the explosion in the videos below.

This was a development test. The goal was to gather data to help improve reliability of the rocket in the future as part of SpaceX’s plan to “make life multi-planetary,” employees said. The major goal for SpaceX with this test was to simply get off the launch pad, and it did that.

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