A group of retirees who now call the Rio Grande Valley home. A couple who drove for three days straight from Buffalo, New York, and hundreds of others descended upon South Padre Island on a sweltering May afternoon to watch what many characterized as “history" — the ninth test flight of SpaceX's Starship/Super Heavy.

SpaceX had built a launch tower with massive mechanized metal arms, nicknamed "chopsticks," that then ... was able to launch at SpaceX’s private Starbase site in Texas, but telemetry data ...

SpaceX’s massive Starship blasted off into the sky on Tuesday night for its ninth test flight following back-to-back failures earlier this year.