I've said before that to make progress, we have to be willing to blow up prototypes.
SpaceX just blew up a full sized Dragon rocket. The purpose was to test the crew escape system, designed to ensure nothing like the Challenger accident happens with the crewed Dragon.
The test was successful; the crew capsule neatly splashed down and was recovered intact by a specialist recovery vessel (which has a fully equipped medical bay, just in case).
Proper in flight abort systems are something that NASA has been very keen to test, and hopefully the test brings the Dragon one step closer to being human rated.
By blowing it up.
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