SpaceX’s Super Heavy-Starship rocket achieved its first successful full test flight on Thursday, returning from space and landing safely without exploding after launching from Texas. The test mission was the rocket’s fourth attempt to launch and return safely to Earth. "Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean!" SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on X.
BOEING STARLINER SPACECRAFT EXPERIENCING HELIUM LEAKS AHEAD OF DOCKING AT SPACE STATION The Super Heavy booster detached at an altitude of 46 miles, allowing Starship to use its own engines to fly further into space. Super Heavy made a planned soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico as Starship hit hypersonic speeds of more than 16,000 mph at about 125 miles in altitude. Starship returned to Earth over the Indian Ocean and splashed down without exploding.
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