SpaceX launches Starship in key test flight of massive rocket

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In a key test flight on Friday, SpaceX tried but failed to recover both stages of its massive Starship rocket. The rocket lifted off from the company's South Texas launch facility at 4:47 p.m. local time, or 5:47 p.m. ET. SpaceX had to abort its plans to catch and reuse the booster, instead diverting it to splash into the Gulf of Mexico, where it burst into flames. Test Flight 15, the most ambitious Starship mission to date, was the first time Elon Musk's company attempted to catch both the booster and upper stage, or spacecraft portion, of the massive rocket. Earlier on Friday, SpaceX obtained authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration.