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Elon Musk and SpaceX suffered another " failure" in their space project ambitions. SpaceX Starship crashed and bursted into a huge fireball during a test flight.

SpaceX has performed the first major flight test of its Starshipspacecraft, reaching a height of 12.5km before crash landing in a huge fireball explosion.

Prior to the test, SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk had predicted there was only a one in three chance of the launch and landing succeeding.

Despite the failure, the test flight marks a major milestone towards sending humans to Mars. 

The prototype spacecraft appeared close to achieving the landing and was also able to fulfil several other key objectives during the first ever flight test of its kind.

“Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point,” Mr Musk tweeted.
The Starship SN8 failed a similar attempt of the 12.5 km sub-orbital flight on Tuesday with just 1.3 seconds to go until liftoff. The next Starship prototype, SN9, is already built and is expected to attempt a similar flight test at some point in the near future from SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility in Texas.

Speaking last week at an event in Germany, Mr Musk said he hoped to send the first humans to Mars aboard a Starship craft in 2024.
The serially delayed launch finally took place at 1645 local time [2245 GMT], with just 15 minutes until the day’s launch window closed.

Around two minutes after lift-off, the base of the craft appeared to catch on fire, though this soon went out.
After reaching its target altitude, Starship SN8 then attempted to perform a complicated flip landing manoeuvre, whereby it essentially belly flops to Earth. 

Soon after launching, and before the crash landing, Mr Musk tweeted enthusiastically about the test.

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