2:18 PM PT — No chopstick catch this time for SpaceX Starship … the Tremendous Heavy booster didn’t make it again to the launch pad and as a substitute splashed down within the Gulf of Mexico.

A pair minutes into the mission, SpaceX introduced a “no go” for the tried booster catch.

Elon Musk is treating Donald Trump to fairly the present … with SpaceX’s Starship megarocket blasting off into area and making an attempt to make one other good touchdown again on the launch pad … and TMZ is streaming reside.

The largest rocket ever made is ready to blast off Tuesday from the corporate’s Starbase launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas for Starship Flight 6 … in a check to see if each levels of the spacecraft — the Tremendous Heavy booster and the Starship capsule — will return safely again to Earth … and Trump has a front-row seat.

One aim right here … to have the Tremendous Heavy booster primarily fly in reverse again to the launch pad … the place it is going to be grabbed by the launch and catch tower’s “chopstick” arms … in a single reusable piece.

In the meantime, the Starship capsule — which is being despatched into area by the Tremendous Heavy booster and shall be used to ferry astronauts to the moon and finally Mars — can be attempting to make a profitable managed descent … within the Indian Ocean.

Whereas orbiting the Earth, the Starship capsule will try to reignite considered one of its Raptor engines … a primary for the mission.

Elon has polarized people on this nation together with his involvement in American politics … backing Trump after which bringing the President-elect to Tuesday’s launch … however there is no denying Musk runs an organization with some fairly ingenious improvements.