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SpaceX launches Starship on highest test flight, crash-lands

by Marcia Dunn
| December 9, 2020 3:35 PM

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX launched its shiny, bullet-shaped, straight-out-of-science fiction Starship several miles into the air from a remote corner of Texas on Wednesday, but the 6 1/2-minute test flight ended in an explosive fireball at touchdown.

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