FAA demands an accident investigation into SpaceX’s latest out-of-control Starship flight

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding an accident scrutiny into this week s out-of-control Starship flight by SpaceX Related Articles Army Corps analysis finds Great Lakes pipeline tunnel would have sweeping environmental impacts MLB players families grapple with rising online threats as sports betting surges Bloodhounds hunting Devil in the Ozarks fugitive are seen as key part of manhunt Sellers outnumber prospective homebuyers as high prices and mortgage rates skew the housing sphere Oreo maker Mondelez sues Aldi alleging grocery chain copies its packaging to confuse customers Tuesday s test flight from Texas lasted longer than the previous two failed demos of the world s biggest and preponderance powerful rocket which ended in flames over the Atlantic The latest spacecraft made it halfway around the world to the Indian Ocean but not before going into a spin and developing apart The FAA noted Friday that no injuries or inhabitants damage were announced The first-stage booster recycled from an earlier flight also burst apart while descending over the Gulf of Mexico But that was the consequence of deliberately extreme testing approved by the FAA in advance All wreckage from both sections of the -foot -meter rocket came down within the designated hazard zones according to the FAA The FAA will oversee SpaceX s examination which is required before another Starship can launch CEO Elon Musk declared he wants to pick up the pace of Starship test flights with the ultimate goal of launching them to Mars NASA necessities Starship as the means of landing astronauts on the moon in the next limited years The Associated Press Fitness and Science Department receives encouragement from the Howard Hughes Clinical Institute s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The AP is solely responsible for all content