Starship got off the ground Monday, Oct. 13, from SpaceX's Starbase headquarters in South Texas.
Starship’s upper stage, the vehicle where crew and cargo would one day ride, flew halfway around the world for more than an hour while completing major objectives.
Super Heavy returned to make a water landing about 7 minutes after launch in the Gulf of Mexico, renamed by the US government as the Gulf of America.
In a year marked early on by a string of explosive failures, SpaceX's Starship is on track to end 2025 on a high note .
The commercial spaceflight company, founded in 2002 by billionaire Elon Musk, launched the gargantuan rocket on a second successful uncrewed test flight in a row from its Starbase facilities in South Texas. The mission, coming a little less than two months sinc