Starship Surprise! This Giant Rocket Floated Like a Toy Boat!
Imagine a super-duper tall rocket splash-landing in the ocean... and it floats! π€―
Hey future space explorers! Zappi here with some out-of-this-world news! Remember those super tall rockets called Starships, made by a company called SpaceX? Well, usually, when a rocket is done zooming to space, it either lands back on Earth or, sometimes, parts of it fall into the ocean.
But get this: during a recent test flight (it was number 13!), a Starship zoomed up, did its space thing, and then came zooming back down to Earth. Now, rockets coming back into our atmosphere can get super hot, like a marshmallow in a campfire! But this Starship was so tough, it landed in the ocean and⦠IT FLOATED!
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Based on reporting by Space.com.