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IN ANY NORMAL week, the biggest-ever interplanetary probe blasting off to look for signs of life in the depths of an occult ocean would hog the headlines about space. But Europa Clipper’s launch on October 14th (see Science & technology section) was eclipsed, spectacularly, by the test flight the previous day of the Starship being developed by SpaceX, a launch provider, satellite-communications supplier and Mars-settlement enabler founded and run by Elon Musk. Seven minutes after take off a thin, waggling finger of rocket-fire guided the launcher’s huge first stage back to its launchpad in Texas there to be grasped like the quarry of a giant praying mantis.

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