Here’s What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship

If founder Elon Musk’s vision comes to pass, later this decade SpaceX’s Starship could transport astronauts and private passengers to the moon—and perhaps a decade or two later, to Mars. Last weekend’s second near-orbital test flight of the huge rocket fared better than the first one on April 20, surviving stage separation and crossing the edge of space before it self-destructed about 10 minutes after liftoff.

Saturday’s flight test got off to a promising start. The rocket blasted off smoothly, without hurtling chunks of debris from the launch pad, as had happened during the April launch. SpaceX listed several other technical milestones in

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