Starship Lives! SpaceX Craft Arrives at Christmas Island After 24-Day Ocean Ordeal

For Once, Elon Musk Underestimates SpaceX: A Recovery Team Has Saved Starship's Upper Stage From Sinking

Recovering the spacecraft, which splashed down into the Indian Ocean more than three weeks ago, was 'not looking good right now,' Musk posted on August 7. Twenty-four days after SpaceX’s Starship rocket closed out its 13th test flight with its upper stage surviving a lucky landing in the Indian Ocean, a recovery team has brought that spacecraft within sight of land. SpaceX …

Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea

"A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle."

Starship lives! SpaceX craft arrives at Christmas Island after 24-day ocean ordeal

The seas have been kind, or at least kinder than expected, to SpaceX's Starship spacecraft, as it's been tugged through the Indian Ocean to friendlier tides. Ship 40, the upper stage that flew on Starship's Flight 13 test launch, performed the vehicle's first successful intact ocean splashdown at the end of its mission on July 24, after lifting off from SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. The spacecraft landed in the Indian Ocean as plann…