June 6, 2024
'Splashdown confirmed!' SpaceX Starship successful
SpaceX's jumbo 400-foot-long Starship rocket took off from the Texas Starbase site Thursday morning for its fourth test flight, resulting in its most successful run yet.
The unmanned craft is classified as a super heavy-lift launch vehicle and is lauded as the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. Working toward an ultimate goal of delivering astronauts back and forth between the Earth, moon and even Mars, SpaceX has called each previous test flight an improvement on the last.
SpaceX’s private Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas at 8:50 a.m. E.T. on Thursday.
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