A look back at all of the spectacular tests — and failures — that have punctuated SpaceX's development of its Starship rocket ...

Nor was any ship likely to pass this way by chance; they were far off the trade routes. As for somehow getting back to Portugal—well, the crew might as well have been shipwrecked on Mars.

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