The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted body of the rocket hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers. The only ...

The 403.5-foot-tall (123 meters) rocket consists of two elements, both of which are fully reusable: Super Heavy and an upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship, or Ship for short. Starship has ...

But after the first-stage booster successfully landed atop a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the landing legs — and the booster tipped ...