SpaceX spacecraft test flight explodes again, can’t quite land

Everything is rosy for Elon muskStarship’s spaceship, save for those pesky landings – but somehow its engineers keep a remarkably positive outlook.

Starship’s last SpaceX unmanned test flight – designed to transport goods and people to the Moon and Mars – ended on Tuesday the same way it did in December … with a fireball.

We’ll say this … the reusable pod was beautiful on the way up … but it’s that flight home that gets tricky. It’s supposed to land vertically, but instead it came down at an angle and caught fire.

Bummer right? Not at mission control, where the mushroom cloud didn’t stop an engineer from pulling out his pom poms to boost team morale.

As the smoke rose again, he yelled, “Another great test flight” … described everything that worked fine and then stopped, “We just need to work on this landing a bit.

There are good reasons Captain Obvious is so optimistic. Elon predicted that Starship’s initial test flights would likely crash, and the main goal is to collect data. See? Mission accomplished!!!