Aerial views of SpaceX Starship 24 and Super Heavy booster 7 mated at SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. Credit: ...

Footage of the crew and views outside the Tiangong space station in these highlights. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ...

Starship 's two stages separated as planned on Flight 9, and the upper stage even reached space, which was an improvement ...

Jeff Hessel worked at Cape Canaveral in the heyday of the U.S. space program. He now lectures about the experience to groups across Palm Beach County.

While SpaceX has hoped to launch Starship from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A by the end of the year, test flights from Texas make slow progress.