SpaceX flew its latest test flight of its Starship megarocket on Tuesday, with President-elect Donald Trump joining Elon Musk to witness the spectacle firsthand in the latest sign of their ever-closer ties.
But the Republican leader was deprived of the chance to see the descending first stage caught in the launch tower's"chopstick" arms, an engineering marvel demonstrated by the company last month and one he personally lauded during his election victory speech.Company representatives cited unmet technical criteria, dampening the triumph of an event attended by an array of Trump-world figures.
Flying in from his Mar-a-Lago home, Trump greeted Musk warmly on Tuesday afternoon, sporting a red MAGA hat as the pair headed off to watch from the control tower of the company's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, where Starship blasted off at 4:00 pm . NASA is also counting on a specialized version of Starship to ferry astronauts to the lunar surface later this decade under its Artemis program.Flight six of Starship was seen as a test of whether SpaceX's first booster catch was pure precision or relied on a stroke of luck after Musk -- perhaps inadvertently -- disclosed how close the last flight came to disaster.
SpaceX employees erupted in cheers during a live feed watched by nearly nine million viewers, as the upper stage executed a near-vertical daylight splashdown off Australia's northwest coast, sending up a towering plume of water vapor before tipping over. Musk has already teased that its successor, Starship V3, will be"3X more powerful" and could take flight in about a year.
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