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Elon Musk’s latest attempt to land the prototype of a rocket that he hopes will someday fly people to the moon and Mars exploded Tuesday, sending debris crashing to the ground in the latest fiery setback in a test campaign designed to push the limits. The SpaceX Starship spacecraft lifted off from its launchpad in South Texas at about 9 a.m. Eastern time in dense fog and cruised to an altitude of about six miles under the power of three engines. As it had done previously, the rocket prototype then shut off its engines, flipped horizontally and started falling back to Earth. The spacecraft, dubbed Serial Number 11, or SN11, was supposed to then reorient itself, restart its engines and touch down softly on a landing pad. But at some point, the vehicle blew up, and John Insprucker, SpaceX’s principal integration engineer, said the company “lost all the data from the vehicle.” He added, for viewers watching a frozen image of the spacecraft’s engines on the screen: “Starship 11 is not coming back. Don’t wait fo
