Originally Posted by
Diff Tail Shim
Professionals don't cheer failures. Elon wasn't.
At the end of a football match, if the team has battled hard but still lost, the crowd still cheers at the end of the game. They weren't cheering the destruction of the rocket, they were cheering the success of achieving a launch and the hard work the team had put in to get it that far. Also, remember, the SpaceX team is made up of very young professionals. They behave very differently to more mature folk like you and I 'probably' are.