00:00Whoa, oh my gosh.
00:02Social media videos showed debris from a failed SpaceX Starship test flight
00:07raining down from the skies above the Bahamas Thursday.
00:10It marks the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk's Mars rocket program.
00:16The Starship's flight lasted just minutes after lifting off from facilities at Boca Chica, Texas.
00:22A SpaceX live stream of the mission showed it tumbling uncontrollably after multiple engines shut down.
00:29Getting video down from the ship, you can see we've lost several engines
00:32and we've lost attitude control of the vehicle.
00:36It wasn't clear if the explosion was caused by SpaceX's automated flight termination system,
00:41which triggers when something on the rocket goes wrong.
00:44The Federal Aviation Administration briefly issued ground stops at airports in Miami,
00:49Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando because of space launch debris.
00:55It said it had opened a mishap investigation into the incident.
00:59The FAA said that means SpaceX must examine the failure's cause
01:03and get the agency's sign-off before Starship can fly again.
01:07SpaceX said there were no toxic materials among the debris.
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