Starship's 3rd-launch success: Rocket finally soared to space without blowing up, but SpaceX lost it on reentry

• SpaceX successfully launched the world's tallest and most powerful rocket into space for the first time.
• But Starship lost communication with SpaceX during its reentry to splash down in the Indian Ocean.
• NASA wants Starship to land astronauts on the moon. Elon Musk wants it to build a city on Mars.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket finally thundered through the skies, past the stratosphere, and into space Thursday morning.