SpaceX catches its Starship rocket back at the launch pad, but the spacecraft is destroyed

SpaceX has launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight. Elon Musk’s company caught the booster back at the pad on Thursday, but lost contact with the ascending spacecraft as engines went out. Officials for Elon Musk’s company said the spacecraft was destroyed. Before the loss, SpaceX for the second time used giant mechanical arms to catch the booster back at the pad minutes after liftoff from Texas. It was the seventh test flight for the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket. NASA has reserved a pair of Starships to land astronauts on the moon later this decade. Musk’s goal is Mars.



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