 SpaceX's uncured spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, was presumed to have failed in space minutes after lifting off on November 18 during its second test, after its first attempt ended in an explosion, the two-stage rocket ship blasted off from the Elon Musk own company's starbase launch site near Boca Chiquit in Texas, boosting the Starship spacecraft roughly 55 miles above ground on a planned 90-minute flight into space, but the rocket's super heavy first. The stage booster, though it appeared to achieve a crucial maneuver to separate with its core Starship stage, exploded over the Gulf of Mexico shortly after detaching. A SpaceX webcast showed, meanwhile, the core Starship booster carried further toward space, but a few minutes later a company broadcaster said that SpaceX mission control suddenly lost contact with the vehicle.