SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean.

SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean ... from the southern tip of Texas on a test flight early ...

The Port of Galveston is seeing a cruise boom as the industry increasingly expands in Texas' only cruise port.

Commercial airlines had to divert or delay their flights to avoid debris from the SpaceX Starship spacecraft that exploded Thursday during a flight test.

Texas' Port of Galveston almost filed for bankruptcy in the 1990s. Its CEO credits the booming cruise industry for saving the port.

SpaceX successfully guided Starship’s booster back to a landing site in Texas but lost the main spacecraft around 10 minutes into the flight. The test flight was the seventh attempt from Boca Chica, Texas.

A Sheffield couple on an idyllic Caribbean island were shocked to find what appears to be Starship debris all over the beach.

Some Hawaiians don’t like the idea of SpaceX dropping Starship rockets in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the islands.

Elon Musk ‘s company said Starship broke apart, calling it a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” The rocket appeared to lift off from SpaceX’s launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas, but eight and a half minutes into the mission, ground control announced that it had lost all communication with the ship.

A SpaceX Starship rocket broke apart shortly after launch on a test flight from South Texas on Thursday, January 16, causing airplanes to be diverted away from any potential falling debris. SpaceX said the unmanned Starship “experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn,

According to the U.S. Department of State, Belize is currently under a level 2 travel advisory while Belize City is under a level 3.

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