Starship got off the ground Oct. 13, 2025, from SpaceX's Starbase headquarters in Texas. The rocket was seen in the sky near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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 to the Gulf of America.

In a year marked early on by a string of explosive failures, .

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 Texas. The mission, coming a little less than two months since , helped to furthe

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