Incredible photos showed Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship making a spectacular “belly flop” splash-down within the Indian Ocean Sunday morning following a successful test flight.
The Starship — which is designed to hold astronauts back to the moon by 2026 — successfully launched Sunday after which separated from its Falcon Super Heavy rocket booster.
The booster was then steered back to Earth and caught by the “Mechazilla arms” at SpaceX’s Starbase in Texas.
The Starship fell into the ocean after a brief flight halfway across the Earth.
Musk heralded the mission — the fifth test of the rocket — as successful, achieving each parts of its mission.
