SpaceX tested its huge Starship launch system for the eighth time on Thursday. The company caught the booster out of midair, but lost another upper stage in space.
The spectacle came after SpaceX's Starship rocket suffered a failure during ascent, sending fragments into the atmosphere.
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Manuel Mazzanti / NurPhoto via Getty Images A falling SpaceX rocket stage burned through European skies, and some of its pieces crash-landed in Poland. Separately, a piece of a Blue Origin rocket ...