Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Friday, May 29, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 10-53 mission.

It was never going to be pretty if hundreds of thousands of gallons of highly flammable liquid oxygen, hydrogen, and methane suddenly erupted.

Although Blue Origin has produced multiple New Glenn rockets, its capacity to launch additional rockets may be hampered by the potential destruction of its Florida launch pad.