This month marks 40 years since one of the most despised hits of the 1980s took over the airwaves. But is it really the worst of all time?

Shortly after the incident, roughly 20% of the engineering group working on the company’s flagship Falcon 9 program were reassigned for six months to Starship, a reusable rocket Musk hopes will someday carry humans back to the moon and to Mars,

SpaceX Starship Flight 10 is set to launch, aiming to refine objectives after previous anomalies, marking a pivotal moment for the spacecraft.

SpaceX released its investigations into the destruction of a Starship vehicle during a May 27 flight, and the June explosion of another on the ground.

A family spends time together on the shore near the Starship Flight 3 Rocket a day before its scheduled launch at the Starbase facility near Boca Chica beach on March 13, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. SpaceX is preparing to launch its first Starship test of 2024.

Starship flight 10, A USSF mission, a NASA/SpaceX cargo run to the ISS, and multiple Starlink deployments are all launching this week.

SpaceX has moved a new iteration of its Starship model to its Starbase in Texas for preflight testing. The new model, which CEO Elon Musk described as the "V2 Starship," is the latest development in the line of spaceships he hopes will one day take a manned mission to Mars.

SpaceX has moved a large share of talent onto its biggest project. After a Starship vehicle caught fire during a routine fueling run in June, the company reassigned roughly 20% of engineers from the Falcon 9 team to Starship for six months,