SpaceX Sees Success and Lands Starship

A milestone was hit for SpaceX and its mission for people to one day visit Mars.

A milestone was hit for SpaceX and its mission for people to one day visit Mars. The aerospace technology company launched another test flight of an early mars rocket prototype yesterday. The SN15 soared up to about six miles above earth, completed a series of aerial acrobatics, then re-lit its engines and landed upright on a landing pad. The vehicle is the fifth of SpaceX’s rocket prototypes to attempt such a landing and the first to do so successfully. All of the prior missions ended in explosions.
SN15 is an early iteration of starship, the vehicle that could one day carry the first humans to Mars. All of SpaceX’s starship prototypes thus far have been far less powerful than the version planned for human travel. While most of the test vehicles have had three engines, the final spaceship is expected to have nearly 30.