SpaceX is ten full-scale test launches into developing its enormous, nearly 400-feet-tall Starship, the most powerful rocket ...

No one doubts that rocket tests mean failures, but the question for Starship is this: Is it just having extended teething ...

Let's use that banana for scale. Starship fully stacked measures an astonishing 400 feet tall, and the average banana measures anywhere between 6 and 9 inches in height.

SpaceX has now launched nine full-scale Starship rockets since April 2023, and before the explosion, the company hoped to launch the 10th test flight later this month.

SpaceX plans to launch the eighth full-scale test flight of its enormous Starship rocket as soon as Monday after receiving regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.