Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully landed a prototype of its Starship rocket after flying it to an altitude of just over six miles, a key milestone in the test campaign of the spacecraft it hopes to one day fly astronauts to the moon and Mars.
But eight minutes after the landing, the spacecraft exploded on the pad, spewing debris across SpaceX’s launch site in South Texas. No one was on the rocket, and there were no reports of injuries.
In previous attempts, the rocket landed hard and exploded. But this version, known as Serial Number 10, or SN 10, seemed to go successfully from start to finish. It lifted off at 6:14 p.m. Eastern time from SpaceX’s launch site, coasted to its top altitude, and then fell back toward Earth horizontally as its fins provided stability.
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