PBS NewsHour | News Wrap: SpaceX Starship test launch ends with explosions | Season 2023
JOHN YANG: Elon Musk's SpaceX got its biggest rocket off the ground in a test launch today, but a pair of explosions just minutes into the flight destroyed both the booster rocket and the spacecraft.
SpaceX officials say it appears the crafts self-destruct system blew it up over the Gulf of Mexico after liftoff from South Texas.
The flight lasted only about eight minutes that's twice as long as the first test in April which also ended with an explosion.
And Elon Musk got more bad news today as Comcast joined the list of advertisings stepping away from his social media platform X formerly known as Twitter over concerns that their ads were showing up next to antisemitic content of the company's pausing their ads on X include IBM, Disney and Paramount global.
Musk has been accused of tolerating and even encouraging antisemitic messages on X.
He drew fire earlier this week for agreeing with a post accusing Jews of hating white people.
Still to come on PBS News Weekend, the growing need for nurse practitioners and the fight over how they provide care and the spread of mosquitoes and the diseases they carry.
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