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Starship -- SpaceX’s giant new rocket that aims to send people to the moon and, ultimately, to Mars -- blasted off on its first test flight but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad on April 20, 2023.

Here's what it looked and sounded like as a Falcon 9 first stage returned to Earth, as seen from 2.5 miles away.

Elon Musk won’t be buying Twitter after all, apparently. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is calling off the $44-billion deal, accusing the company of "false and misleading representations." The move was not a surprise to many based on Musk’s comments about the number of fake accounts on the social media platform. His team in recent weeks had tussled with Twitter over "spam bots" and threatened to walk away from the deal if the company couldn’t show that less than 5% of its daily active users are automated spam accounts.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share and to take the social media company private, according to an SEC filing. The deal would cost him more than $43 billion and he says, if it's not accepted, he'd have to reconsider his position as a shareholder.

LiveNOW from FOX's Rain Augustine chats with FOX Weather's Brandy Campbell about the Ax-1 mission. Four civilian astronauts will stay in space for at least 10 days, with at least eight days on the space station, where López-Alegría, Connor, Pathy, and Stibbe will perform experiments, participate in educational and public relations outreach activities, and enjoy their time in orbit.

A perfect launch to start the year for SpaceX. A Falcon 9 rocket will carry a batch of Starlink satellites into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A. The space agency said Starlink delivers high-speed broadband Internet to locations where access has been unreliable or completely unavailable, "ideally suited for areas of the globe where connectivity has typically been a challenge."

A SpaceX capsule carrying four space tourists part of the Inspiration4 crew successfully splashed down off the Florida coast Saturday evening. The first all-amateur flight to orbit Earth began three days ago with a launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

History was made on Wednesday as the world's first all-civilian crew launched into orbit. SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission launched on Wednesday, September 15 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

For the first time in 60 years of human spaceflight, a rocket is poised to blast into orbit with no professional astronauts on board, only four tourists.