WASHINGTON — SpaceX launched its Starship vehicle on the company’s first attempt to recover both stages of the rocket but was forced to call off recovery of the Super Heavy booster.

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He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science…
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