Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "The Space Race" channel.

2:57 Some people have claimed that SpaceX intentionally didn't light one of the engines for boost back and that's why it didn't affect the landing attempt. I haven't yet seen any credible source for this claim but it would appear sensible explanation and would go nicely with testing theme that SpaceX is doing here. They could have been simply testing if they can relight the engine even if it wasn't used for the boost back and have different state after the high g manouvers without the engine running.
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