An uncrewed test flight of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after liftoff from South Texas, cutting short a key step in Elon Musk’s development of a rocket vessel to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars. Even though the two-stage rocket ship failed to make it beyond an altitude of 23 miles, the flight achieved a primary objective of getting the new spacecraft off the ground in an otherwise seemingly clean liftoff. 🔗 While the mission fell short of several goa