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‘Awesome test’: SpaceX’s Starship blasts off from Boca Chica, explodes on landing [San Antonio Express-News] Dec. 10—The launch of Starship — SpaceX’s silver rocket — lasted only 6 minutes and 42 seconds Wednesday, but the flight from South Texas ushered in a new era of space travel for humanity. Despite ending with an explosion, the commercial space company considered the first high-altitude test of the 160-foot-tall prototype spacecraft a success. The last frame of SpaceX’s live feed of the flight test showed the blackened shell of Starship SN8 (Serial Number 8) after it ble...

'Awesome test': SpaceX's Starship blasts off from Boca Chica, explodes on landing FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 This SpaceX video frame grab image shows SpaceX’s Starship SN8 rocket prototype taking off Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, at the company’s Boca Chica facility.SpaceX /AFP via Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of7 Workers are seen in a cherry picker lift working on Starship SN9 at the SpaceX facility at Boca Chica, Texas, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. SN8’s 6 minute and 42 second flight ended in an explosion Wednesday.Bob Owen /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 3of7 Space X’s Starship SN8...