SpaceX rocket explosion leads to flight delays at Florida airports over fears of falling debris

The reasons for Elon buying the presidency are becoming more clear every day

These anti SpaceX posts are getting a bit tiresome considering the magnitude of what they’re trying to achieve. It’s as if reddit no longer champions groundbreaking advancements in the space race because Elon’s name is attached to it.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
| |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
|[DoD](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgki6o7 “Last usage”)|US Department of Defense|
|ETOV|Earth To Orbit Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”)|
|[FAA](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgn5fe4 “Last usage”)|Federal Aviation Administration|
|[FFSC](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgjrlvy “Last usage”)|Full-Flow Staged Combustion|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgl38a1 “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[LV](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mglez6x “Last usage”)|Launch Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”), see ETOV|
|[MAF](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgl4hfl “Last usage”)|Michoud Assembly Facility, Louisiana|
|[NOTAM](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mglxh96 “Last usage”)|[Notice to Air Missions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOTAM) of flight hazards|
|[QA](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgkugye “Last usage”)|Quality Assurance/Assessment|
|[RUD](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgmuii4 “Last usage”)|Rapid Unplanned Disassembly|
| |Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly|
| |Rapid Unintended Disassembly|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgl22z2 “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[SRB](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgkvyyk “Last usage”)|Solid Rocket Booster|
|[SSTO](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgk1ifw “Last usage”)|Single Stage to Orbit|
| |Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit|
|[STS](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgkvyyk “Last usage”)|Space Transportation System (*Shuttle*)|
|[SV](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgkj7sg “Last usage”)|Space Vehicle|
|[WDR](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgkugye “Last usage”)|Wet Dress Rehearsal (with fuel onboard)|

|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Raptor](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgkedg4 “Last usage”)|[Methane-fueled rocket engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)) under development by SpaceX|
|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mglgu92 “Last usage”)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgkaxyy “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
|[iron waffle](/r/Space/comments/1j5tnrg/stub/mgk1ifw “Last usage”)|Compact “waffle-iron” aerodynamic control surface, acts as a wing without needing to be as large; also, “grid fin”|

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I saw the rocket launch from my driveway, didn’t know what it was at the moment. It went behind a tree from my view so I moved farther down the drive to get a clearer view and it was just gone. I thought I might have imagined it. I imagine I would have seen the debris but it might have been too low from my viewpoint.

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What is the fine for littering a space shuttle?