For the first time, the flight of a Starship prototype didn't end in an explosion. Now Elon Musk says there may be an encore. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live ...

"Landing nominal," Elon Musk says. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SpaceX's SN15 stuck the landing. The private spaceflight ...

It appears that SpaceX has managed its first successful launch and landing sequence of a Starship prototype, as SN15 took off Wednesday afternoon and returned to the pad in Boca Chica, TX. It landed ...

SpaceX fans were delighted to see the Starship SN15 succeed where its predecessors had failed, earlier this month. The Mars rocket prototype was launched on May 5, and soared to an altitude of ...

SpaceX launched a high-altitude Starship prototype rocket and successfully landed it for the first time on Wednesday, overcoming a key challenge in Elon Musk’s whirlwind quest to build a fully ...