SpaceX Successfully Lands Prototype of Mars and Moon Rocket After Test Flight
The New York Times
After a series of high-altitude test flights that ended in explosions, the new vehicle set down in one piece on a Texas launchpad.
A prototype of a spacecraft that SpaceX hopes one day to send to the moon and Mars touched down in one piece on a landing pad in South Texas on Wednesday. It was the fifth high-altitude flight test of Starship, a vehicle that in several earlier test flights exploded either during or after landing. “We are down, the Starship has landed,” said John Insprucker, a SpaceX engineer, during a live video stream of the SN15 launch. Flames continued to emerge from the base of the rocket after it landed, a result of the fuel used by the rocket, Mr. Insprucker said. Shortly after SpaceX concluded its official video feed, Elon Musk, the founder of the private space company, wrote a tweet calling the landing a success in the jargon of rocket engineering:
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