And now for something with a little more pep in its step: Space Exploration Technologies Corp, more commonly known as SpaceX, launched a test flight of its 'Starship', a fully reuseable spacecraft that's 'the tallest and most powerful space launch vehicle to have flown'.
As when SpaceX launched a similar test flight last April, when some of the ships rockets didn't fire properly and the ship began to tumble forcing a manual detonation from mission control, this launch was terminated before the rocket was able to complete its planned flight which would have brought it down safely off the coast of Hawaii.
However unlike the last test this one lasted much longer and got much deeper into the mission, providing valuable data that will be used to refine the engineering and work towards a reliable rocket that can be used for missions to space and then reused again.
