And now for something with a little more pep in its step: Space Exploration Technologies Corp, more commonly known as SpaceX, launched a test flight of its 'Starship', a fully reuseable spacecraft that's 'the tallest and most powerful space launch vehicle to have flown'. 

As when SpaceX launched a similar test flight last April, when some of the ships rockets didn't fire properly and the ship began to tumble forcing a manual detonation from mission control, this launch was terminated before the rocket was able to complete its planned flight which would have brought it down safely off the coast of Hawaii. However unlike the last test this one lasted much longer and got much deeper into the mission, providing valuable data that will be used to refine the engineering and work towards a reliable rocket that can be used for missions to space and then reused again. 

The reviews are in for the aesthetics of the launch, and on that front at least it's a hit!

Elon Musk has been open about his aspirations to extend humanities presence beyond the Earth, having been quoted in the past as saying 'I would like to die on Mars... Just not on impact'. It looks like he may be one step closer to achieving his wish today.

Elon Musk later quote tweeted a breakdown of the launch that was produced by Twitter's AI, called 'Grok':

Despite everything else going on it's good to reminded that sometimes things can go right, even in this day and age. Again although this launch didn't go off without a hitch this will be invaluable in the further development of the platform and, perhaps, the further chances of man reaching outwards from the confines of the Earth.

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