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Originally Posted by Amail

Watching some YouTube video I see the launch pad was severely damaged. Lots of broken concrete, but the tower seems intact. Amazing to see the back end of the booster with little dots for engines! Weird to see six (or so?) blank spots where engines weren't lit. Lots of data to unpack from this, I'd call it successful enough!

I noticed the empty spots as well. I assume those didn't light, whether that was intentional or not, would be interesting to know. I would have thought that if it was intentional, the distribution would have been more regular, but maybe that's a poor assumption.

I assume you saw the thread that Gogar posted about his VIP tour of the Shuttle launch pad from many years ago?