SpaceX launches another Starship rocket after back-to-back explosions, but it tumbles out of control
- SpaceX's prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean during a test flight, marking a setback for CEO Elon Musk's Mars colonization plans.
- SpaceX reported that the rocket 'experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly' during its flight.
- Although the Starship flew farther than previous tests, it encountered leaks and spun out of control while in space.
- NASA requires SpaceX to achieve significant progress with Starship for future moon landing missions.
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SpaceX's Starship spins out of control after flying past points of previous failures
Ninth test launch follows grounding of nearly two months Starship flew with re-used booster rocket for first time Musk had planned post-flight speech on ‘multiplanetary’ ambitions, but never showed STARBASE, Texas — SpaceX’s Starship rocket roared into space from Texas on Tuesday but spun out of control about halfway through its flight without achieving some of its […] The post SpaceX’s Starship spins out of control after flying past points of p…
Why Musk is so important
WHY MUSK IS SO IMPORTANT. Elon Musk‘s giant Starship spacecraft went out of control, tumbled, and broke apart several minutes into a test flight Tuesday night. It was the latest in a series of unsuccessful-but-still-instructive tests of Musk’s hugely ambitious rocket program, which is designed to go to Mars. And it is also, at least for now, the heart of the American space program. “Starship is the world’s largest and most powerful rocket,” the …
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