SpaceX’s Megarocket Starship Nails Historic Ocean Splashdown

The SpaceX Starship launches on its fourth flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on June 6. SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket achieved its first ever splashdown during a test flight Thursday, in a major milestone for the prototype system that may one day send humans to Mars. Scraps of fiery debris came flying off the spaceship as it descended over the Indian Ocean northwest of Australia, dramatic video from an onboard camera showed, but it ultimately held together and survived atmospheric reentry. “Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a…