SpaceX Starship rocket explodes during first test flight | AFP

Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, exploded during its maiden flight on Thursday, but Elon Musk congratulated his SpaceX team on an "exciting" test of the spacecraft. The spacecraft failed to separate from the first-stage rocket booster and the rocket disintegrated in a ball of fire over the Gulf of Mexico.

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