高中英语教学：Starship Exploded.docx

Starship Exploded, but SpaceX Had Reason to Pop Champagne Anyway By Daniel Victor and Kenneth Chang @ The New York Times April 20, 2023 It doesn’t take a degree in aerospace engineering to know that, ideally, rockets aren’t supposed to blow up. So to those who aren’t engineers, the explosion of SpaceXs Starship rocket on Thursday might have looked like a disaster- not the kind of result that should have prompted celebration the SpaceX founder Elon Musk and his employees, who cheered what they considered a major success. Casual space watchers were further amused by the company desecribing th