Elon Musk’s spaceflight company is continuing its work on the vehicle that could one day take people to the moon and eventually Mars.

SpaceX’s colossal Starship rocket blasted off Thursday on its most complex test flight yet, with Elon Musk looking to repeat a booster capture with giant mechanical arms and adding a new twist. The 400-foot (123-meter) rocket soared from the southern tip of Texas, heading out over the Gulf of Mexico in late afternoon.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing up for the seventh orbital flight test of Starship, the colossal prototype rocket the company hopes will help humans colonise Mars.From the

SpaceX's Starship blasted off from south Texas, successfully completing the rocket booster return and catch for the second time ever. Then SpaceX lost the rocket.

The spacecraft was supposed to soar across the Gulf of Mexico on a near loop around the world similar to previous test flights. SpaceX had packed it with 10 dummy satellites for practice at