Rocket Launch Sends Ship To Space In Bid To Get Back To Moon, Explodes On Re-Entry
NASA and SpaceX are celebrating today, as SpaceX successfully launched its Starship into outer space in another step in NASA’s plan to put humans back on the Moon and eventually to Mars. The ship broke up during re-entry and crashed into the Indian Ocean, and the flight plan was not a total success.
This was the third Starship test flight; a previous test of ship riding the biggest rocket ever created ended quite differently, as it began to spin and later exploded not long after launching.
NASA is doling out money to SpaceX and other private companies to work on technology to get humans to the Moon as part of the Artemis program. This latest Starship test launch, which had no humans on board, is the latest push toward that goal in the testing and preparation process.