Starship, SpaceX’s enormous rocket prototype that could send humans to Mars, successfully achieved its first ocean splashdown during its fourth flight test on Thursday, June 6th. “Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting fourth flight test of Starship!” the company posted on X after a live broadcast showed the rocket landing in the ocean. The most powerful launch system ever built, vital for NASA’s plans to send astronauts back to the Moon and for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s hopes to someday colonize Mars, had taken off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, at 07:50 local time … Continue reading Starship’s First Splashdown Success: What You Missed About SpaceX’s 4th Test Flight