“A fiery explosion followed by a sonic boom rattled the South Texas Gulf Coast during a failed test just before 2 p.m. at SpaceX’s rocket testing launchpad near Boca Chica Beach, Texas.
“The blast was like a wave that shot into the sky and took a few seconds to reach onlookers who were watching from Highway 4, about half a mile away.
“The blast was so loud that cars shook and car alarms went off before construction workers at a SpaceX hangar ran out to a chain-link fence to see what had happened.
“Police had closed down the highway to traffic but Border Report had just gotten through the checkpoint 20 miles away en route to film a story in anticipation of Saturday’s planned manned launch in Florida by SpaceX of a crew — the first planned launch of a manned craft from U.S. soil in over a decade.”
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