Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket explosion
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The explosion occurred around 9:00 p.m. ET on May 28. Blue Origin was preparing a rocket set to carry 48 satellites for Amazon’s internet competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink, which is owned by Elon Musk, another billionaire who has spent a lot of money to make things blow up.
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The largest explosion humans ever made
In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba, a hydrogen bomb with a 50-megaton yield—the largest explosion ever created by humans. The blast was about 3,800 times stronger than Hiroshima and produced a mushroom cloud 64 km high, with shockwaves that ...