SpaceX's attempt to recover its entire Starship back at the launch pad was thwarted when the booster fell into the Gulf of Mexico and exploded Friday, but the spacecraft still soared into orbit in its boldest test yet.

SpaceX planned to use the same return-flight and “chopstick”-arm technology to recover Starship’s lower-stage booster rocket, but the maneuver was aborted shortly after launch.

SpaceX's Starship Flight 15 lifted off the Texas launch pad the evening of Nov. 13. While it successfully reached orbit, the booster catch was missed.

SpaceX is launching Starship into orbit on its boldest test yet, a 22-hour flight that aims to recapture the entire rocket at the Texas pad

Launched in 1977, the spacecraft and its twin have visited planets, captured images, and kept sailing.

Voyager 1, with a skeleton flight control team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, continues to send back science and engineering data.

NASA's Voyager 1 has already traveled farther than any other spacecraft from Earth since its launch in 1977. The probe, which exited our solar system years ago and is journeying through interstellar space,

A spacecraft launched when Jimmy Carter was president will become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth. Come Wednesday morning, Voyager 1 — a probe designed to scout our solar system — will be more than 16 billion miles away,