Spacecraft 7 flight test undergoes ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’
Photography by James Temple
These eerie photos of fiery skies show the moment SpaceX’s Starship rocket made a dramatic return to Earth last week. They have been arrested before Photographer James Templewho was working as a chef on a luxury yacht in the Turks and Caicos Islands. When he realized what was happening, he grabbed his camera extender to take a closer shot.
The seventh test flight of Starship lifted off from SpaceX’s site in Boca Chica, Texas, on January 16, but SpaceX Contact with the missile was lost after about eight o’clock and…