SpaceX Starship rocket explodes during 1st test flight

SpaceX's giant Starship rocket exploded Thursday, minutes after liftoff for its first test flight. The nearly 400-foot rocket, which Elon Musk's space-flight company hopes will one day transport astronauts to the moon and later Mars, wasn't carrying any people or satellites. Several of the 33 main engines failed to fire as the rocket left the launch pad in Texas and climbed 24 miles before exploding four minutes into its flight. Musk tweeted that SpaceX had "learned a lot" from the "exciting test launch," and would put the lessons to use for the next flight in a few months. "To get this far is amazing," SpaceX's Kate Tice said on the livestream. "Everything after clearing the tower was icing on the cake.