SpaceX achieved the first successful touchdown of its prototype Starship rocket during the latest test flight of the next-generation launch vehicle in south Texas after four previous landing attempts ended in explosions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The feat marked a key milestone for the private rocket company of Elon Musk in its development of a resusable heavy-lift launch vehicle to eventually carry astronauts and large cargo payloads to the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Starship SN15 blasted off from the SpaceX launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, along the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maneuvering itself back into vertical position under rocket thrust as it approached the ground, the 16-story, three-engine vehicle descended to a gentle touchdown on its landing gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The flight came on the 60th anniversary of the first spaceflight by an American astronaut Alan Shepard’s launch on a 15-minute suborbital mission atop NASA’s Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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