During a routine test Wednesday night, a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded over southern Texas, startling nearby residents and scattering debris across the Starbase launch facility.
The SpaceX Starship, the key to Elon Musk’s goal of bringing humans to Mars, has had several setbacks, with its seventh and eighth tests ending in explosions.
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