Magnificent cinematic footage of Chinese rocket exploding into fireball just 1.6-feet away from a perfect landing

Private Chinese space firm Deep Blue Aerospace launched is Nebula 1 last weekend and captured the cinematic video below of the mission. You can watch the entire 172 second flight, from its liftoff in Inner Mongolia to its return to Earth to, um, the massive explosion when its engine accidentally shut off just 1.6-feet above the launchpad. — Read the rest

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