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Billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged the fiery death of SpaceX’s SN10 Starship prototype on Friday.
“SN10 is in Valhalla now,” he tweeted to his more than 48.5 million followers, along with a video of the incident.
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In Norwegian mythology, Valhalla is the great hall where heroes are received who died noble in battle.
It was a running theme for Musk, who had just tweeted three minutes earlier: “Cybervikings of Mars.”
Vikings, seafaring Scandinavian poachers, also known as Norsemen, date from the eighth century. Their age lasted less than 300 years, but their history has been passed down and exists in popular culture.
In addition, Musk has big plans for a mission to the red planet and in December he said he remains “very confident” that SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026.
The SN10 Starship is an important part of the trip, though Wednesday’s explosion was not the first. The spacecraft technically landed “in one piece” during the high-altitude suborbital test before it exploded on the runway in Boca Chica, Texas.
The Starship is also an important part of Musk’s proposed private commercial space trip planned for 2023.
The stainless Starship is 160 feet long and has a diameter of 30 feet. SpaceX says it can transport more than 100 tons in orbit.
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Representatives of the company said that Starship, like their Falcon 9 rocket, may have started launching satellites to Earth, according to Space.com.
Fox Leggings, James Leggate, contributed to this report.