Starship’s Sixth Flight Test Skips the Tower Catch, Ends in Soft Splashdown

A live audience that included President-elect Trump, plus millions more on SpaceX’s stream, watched the world's most powerful rocket lift off but did not see it return to its origin.

The sixth launch of SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket Tuesday did not deliver a booster catch but did send a plush banana around the world.

Barely a month after the fifth flight test that featured <a alt="Starship’s slowly descending first stage being snagged by massive metal arms …



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