Elon Musk sometimes goes like a rocket, although this Thursday it exploded in his face. And it is that four minutes after launching his first space rocket, it explodedand left him without knowing where to look, and with a good part of the press talking about “failure”. “We could say that it has been a failure because the mission has not gone according to plan,” says a presenter, while another journalist points out along the same lines that “they obviously have work, so in that sense it was a failure.”

The rocket missed all of its targets. However, at Musk’s company they clap and talk about “success”. “Starship has given us another spectacular finish,” defended a company spokesman. Is the explosion also a success? The company says it was, though it doesn’t call it an explosion, but rather “an unscheduled rapid teardown.” For ‘The New York Times’, this expression is “cosmic levels of euphemism”, and it also causes mockery on American sets.

Musk’s Black Thursday was also caused by his electric car company, Tesla, which fell almost 10% on the stock market. There, the benefits have not been as expected for the third consecutive quarter. In this sense, David García, spokesman for ‘quecochemecompro.com’, stresses that “they have introduced a wild drop in prices, and the market has interpreted it as a mistake”.

All this has had a direct effect on his personal fortune, which has been reduced by 12.6 billion dollars in a single day. Despite this, he speaks on Twitter of “a great day in many ways.” In this form, it seems that she only sees the bright side. And it is that with 164,000 million still in his pocket, surely everything is more bearable.