SpaceX Starship Completes Successful Test Flight After Previous Launch Setbacks Written 28 August 2025
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Launch of Starship’s tenth flight test from its Starbase facility in South Texas on August 26, 2025. | Credit: SpaceX
The New York Times reports, “After several disappointing failures, SpaceX’s Starship — the mammoth rocket that Elon Musk hopes to use to take people to Mars — made it all the way up to space and all the way back down to Earth during a 10th test flight on Tuesday night. The largely successful mission was a likely relief to both SpaceX and NASA, suggesting that the development program is back on track. NASA is counting on Starship as the lander to put its astronauts on the moon in the coming years.”
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SpaceX Starship Completes Successful Test Flight (Launch at the 2:59:19 mark)
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