A SpaceX rocket sustained a rare but catastrophic failure in orbit on Thursday, ending a streak of more than 300 successful missions since 2016 for the Falcon 9. https://nyti.ms/3YjAqen | The New York Times

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday, August 26, launched its giant Starship rocket for a tenth test flight aiming to overcome development setbacks and clinch long-sought technical milestones key to the Mars rocket's reusable design. The towering 403-foot-tall Starship system lifted off around 7:30 PM from SpaceX's Starbase facilities in south Texas on a mission to test the ship's new heat shield tiles and satellite deployment abilities, among hundreds of other upgrades from past iterations. The rocket