SpaceX Starship blows up during routine launchpad test, the latest setback in Elon Musk’s quest to go interplanetary

One of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starships exploded during a routine test late Wednesday in Texas, law enforcement said, in the latest setback to the billionaire’s dream of turning humanity into an interplanetary species.

The Starship 36 suffered “catastrophic failure and exploded” at the Starbase launch facility shortly after 11:00 pm (0400 GMT Thursday), a Facebook post by the Cameron County authorities said.

A video shared with the post showed the megarocket attached to the launch arm...