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The rocket is, at the very least, a thin pressurized tube full of kerosene vapor and oxygen, and probably some decent amount of liquid kerosene and liquid oxygen. Crack it open and it's gonna make a pretty good flash. But as rocket explosions go, that wasn't very big. Get to YouTube if you want to see some real rocket explosions.


Check out, for instance, Proton-M going full Kerbal in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl12dXYcUTo.


Thank you so much for this. The anticipation while waiting for the sound of the explosion to arrive got a cackle out of me.


And here's what it looks like when a rocket of similar class, but fully-fueled, explodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1CeHFeea0




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