SpaceX recovers Starship from the Indian Ocean a month after launch and is shipping it back to Texas
SpaceX has pulled off its biggest salvage operation yet, recovering its most recently launched Starship from the Indian Ocean.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has successfully recovered its recently launched Starship from the Indian Ocean after its test flight in July. The rocket, the largest and most powerful in the world, completed a 13th test flight but unlike the previous ones, it survived the hour-long journey and remained intact. SpaceX's recovery team battled through challenging conditions to retrieve the floating and intact Starship.
Engineers are now working to analyze the data gathered from the test flight to continue rapidly developing the next generation of rockets. Starship is designed to carry people and equipment to Mars, where Elon Musk aims to establish a city. In the short term, NASA is also relying on Starship to return astronauts to the moon as early as 2028.
Recently, President Donald Trump endorsed both the moon and Mars missions during a visit to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, presenting the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to four Artemis II astronauts who orbited the moon in April.
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