Starship's 4th straight rocket explosion is the latest public setback for Musk's Mars dreams

Flames rise as a SpaceX rocket explodes in Brownsville, Texas.

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• SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded during a test at its Texas Starbase campus.
• The explosion is the fourth failure for SpaceX's Starship rockets this year.
• SpaceX uses failures to improve — but it's supposed to put astronauts on the moon by 2027.

SpaceX's flagship rockets keep blowing up.

On Wednesday night, one of the Elon Musk-run space technology company's...