SpaceX’s Starship check launch ends in explosions

It was a day of blended outcomes after SpaceX’s Tremendous Heavy Starship, probably the most highly effective rocket ever constructed, lifted off in South Texas for its second-ever check flight Saturday. Though the Starship efficiently separated from its first-stage booster after takeoff, each the booster, and the Starship itself, then individually exploded. Mark Strassman has extra.