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‘The Starship has landed’: SpaceX nails reusable craft touchdown – Al Jazeera English
All four earlier attempts to land the rocket, designed for travel to the moon and Mars, ended in spectacular crashes.
SpaceX has achieved the first successful touchdown of its prototype Starship rocket during the latest test flight of the next-generation launch vehicle in southern Texas in the United States after four previous landing attempts ended in explosions.
Wednesdays feat marked a key milestone for the private rocket company of billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk in its development of a reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle to eventually carry astronauts and large cargo payloads to the moon and Mars.
The Starship…
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