Elon Musk drops his spectacular SpaceX blooper reel

SPACEX founder Elon Musk has dropped a tongue-in-cheek blooper reel showing some of the company’s most expensive mistakes.

SPACEX founder and CEO Elon Musk has released what could be the most expensive blooper reel ever showing some of the company’s biggest fails.

The tongue-in-cheek video, called How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster, is full of explosions and fire from experiments gone awry.

One particularly impressive detonation in January 2015 shows what happens when systems run out of hydraulic fluid. Other examples include a range of rockets falling over, running out of liquid oxygen and a landing leg collapsing.

“Technically it did land ... just not in one piece,” Musk says of the failed orbital rocket booster.

After a March 2016 clip of a failed landing burn, the inventor says: “The course of true love never did run smooth”.

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One of the unsuccessful landings of the company's orbital rocket boosters. Picture: SpaceX via AP

The footage is set to the Monty Python theme song, Sousa’s Liberty Bell. It’s proof the South African born billionaire can have a laugh — even when its at his own expense.

Putting together SpaceX rocket landing blooper reel. We messed up a lot before it finally worked, but there's some epic explosion footage …

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 31, 2017

Musk claims Tesla is tentatively scheduled to unveil its planned semi-truck in late October, about a month later than expected.

“Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride tentatively scheduled for Oct 26th in Hawthorne,” Musk said in a tweet on Wednesday.

The entrepreneur has tantalised the trucking industry with the prospect of a battery-powered heavy-duty vehicle that can compete with conventional diesels, which can travel up to 1,600 kilometres on a single tank of fuel.

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The billionaire inventor can have a laugh at himself. Picture: AFP

Tesla’s plans for new electric vehicles including a commercial truck called the Tesla Semi were announced last year and in April Musk said the release of the semi-truck was set for September.

Tesla has been making strides in self-driving technology and implementing it in an electric truck could potentially move it forward in a highly competitive area of commercial transport also being pursued by Uber Technologies Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Waymo.

Reuters reported in August that Tesla was developing a long-haul, electric semi- truck that could drive itself and move in “platoons” that followed a lead vehicle, according to an email discussion of potential road tests between the car company and the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles.