SpaceX conducts successful Starship launch test

Astrophysicist and cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker discusses SpaceX’s Starship which completed its first full test flight. “The first test exploded at 30 kilometres, the second test six months later reached nearly orbit, but both the Starship and the booster, the bottom part separated and broke apart,” Dr Tucker told Sky News Australia. “Now, in this fourth mission, they did what they wanted to do. “Have the starship top and booster separate; they both come back down and orientate themselves. “Because in the future, SpaceX will be landing both Starship and the booster on a landing pad to be reused.” “Assuming everything else is going according to plan, Starliner will enter, hopefully, NASA service and be a regular option for astronauts going to the space station.”