Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday, August 26, launched its giant Starship rocket for a tenth test flight aiming to overcome development setbacks and clinch long-sought technical milestones key to the Mars rocket's reusable design. The towering 403-foot-tall Starship system lifted off around 7:30 PM from SpaceX's Starbase facilities in south Texas on a mission to test the ship's new heat shield tiles and satellite deployment abilities, among hundreds of other upgrades from past iterations. The rocket

5.6M views · 35K reactions | 35 years ago today, the Space Shuttle Columbia landed at Edwards Air Force Base, completing its first mission. In this clip, mission commander John Young and pilot Robert Crippen fly the orbiter Columbia to a picture-perfect, unpowered landing on Rogers Dry Lake Bed. | NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center | Facebook