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SPACE & ASTRONOMY

SpaceX Guides Starship Through Re-Entry and Splashdown, a Milestone for Musk’s Deep-Space Ambitions

Company is developing the nearly 400-foot tall rocket for future missions, including NASA’s first astronaut trip to the moon in decades

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Micah Maidenberg

Updated June 6, 2024 1:55 pm ET

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SpaceX achieved a new milestone with its mega Starship rocket, after both the booster and the spacecraft made controlled returns to Earth. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

SpaceX achieved a major milestone with its Starship rocket, successfully guiding the vehicle’s spacecraft to a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean in its fourth test flight.

Re-entry through Earth’s atmosphere has long been a top goal in SpaceX’s development of Starship, a massive vehicle that is core to NASA’s plans to return U.S. astronauts to the moon, and Elon Musk’s dream of interplanetary exploration.

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