Today's Liberal News

A Starship Post-mortem: Why the giant rocket failed and why it’s Elon Musk’s fault

On Thursday, SpaceX launched its first full version of the “Starship” rocket from a pad on the coast near South Padre Island, Texas. Four minutes into the flight the rocket was deliberately destroyed at an altitude of about 35 km, with debris raining down about a dozen kilometers out into the Gulf.

In many ways, the flight was a triumph. It was the largest rocket ever constructed.

Ukraine Update: Nine mechanized brigades are ‘trained, manned, and equipped’ for counteroffensive

For months now, the most prominent images put out daily by the Ukrainian military haven’t been scenes from the front, they’ve been images of Ukrainian troops training for the next phase of the war. Not only has Ukraine been getting additional troops ready to go to the front, many of those who had been fighting for weeks or months were pulled back to train on new systems and new tactics.