SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death

mywacaday 36 points 25 comments May 20, 2026
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blendergeek

https://archive.ph/z7xCk

Ajedi32

Headline is misleading. The launch is happening tomorrow weather permitting, and the delays that already happened are most likely unrelated to the accident that killed the worker. There's also no evidence that accident rates at Starbase are higher than at any other US construction site.

NetMageSCW

Sad to see what Scientific American has become.

ChrisArchitect

Related: Starship's Twelfth Flight Test https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214558

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