Breaking: SpaceX's Starship exploded a few minutes into its first uncrewed test flight, launching successfully but falling short of other milestones
Elon Musk’s rocket company launched the towering rocket on an uncrewed test flight at just after 9:30 a.m. ET ThursdaySpaceX’s Starship exploded a few minutes after launching an initial, uncrewed test flight on Thursday morning, abruptly ending the inaugural flight of a vehicle that Elon Musk wants to use one day for pioneering deep-space missions.
The company launched the uncrewed rocket at roughly 9:30 a.m. ET from a launchpad in South Texas, according to a SpaceX live stream. A trail of flames poured out of the engines installed on the booster used for the first stage of the flight.
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