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From the replay, it seems that the fire comes from methane from the RCS thrusters burning, so it seems normal



The fire I mostly saw was coming from the quick disconnect ports and related plumbing. Also, there was fire on the other side, close to where there was part of a chine was clearly missing. There were a couple other things, too.

Wasn't perfect, some things to work out... but still pretty damn good.


Remember on the first launch when, on the way up, there were hydraulic units exploding off the side and the engines started exploding taking out more hydraulic units? Heh that and all the concrete flying up on ignition was like watching a heavy metal music video.




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