SpaceX Starship rocket blasts off during its seventh test flight
Elon Musk ’s SpaceX lost its 400-foot-tall Starship in space where it was destroyed after launching the rocket from Texas Thursday in its seventh test flight.
The launch however was not without some success. Before the ship loss, the company successfully demonstrated how its massive mechanical arms dubbed “chopsticks” caught the rocket booster at the launch pad for the second time ever. The “chopsticks” first and only other successful catch-and-return maneuver was demonstrated during an Oct. 13 launch.
NASA, meanwhile, has reserved a pair of Starships to send astronauts to the moon in the coming years.
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