When other companies' products crash and burn, rarely do CEOs tweet about them. But we all know Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk isn't an ordinary CEO.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket had a successful launch last week, but the craft took a hard landing into a floating barge. How hard? New images released by Musk over Twitter show it was pretty rough. The rocket burst into flames when it hit the platform.
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Musk tweeted the images to Oculus VR CTO John Carmack, a storied computer game programmer.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/555981841476227072
Musk also tweeted a dramatic Vine clip of the crash landing:
Musk contends the hard landing was caused by the rocket's lack of hydraulic fluid. SpaceX used last week's launch as a way to test the feasibility of a reusable rocket, which would dramatically cut down the costs of space travel.
—By CNBC's Jeff Morganteen.