https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-elon-musk-48a2332f16db06941326ffcdcefbcab3 > SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms. > Unlike last month’s success, the booster was directed to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The catch was called off just four minutes into the test flight from Texas for unspecified reasons, and the booster hit the water three minutes later.