Watch: Starship splashes down in Indian Ocean after Texas launch, SpaceX calls it 'lucky number 13'

Videos capturing the spectacular "landing" of the Starship V3 have since gone viral on social media. The space giant's CEO Elon Musk joined in on the massive celebrations online, confirming on X, "Starship is intact, floating in the ocean and transmitting telemetry!"

Meanwhile, SpaceX's Dan Huot's live commentary at the time affirmed, "This is just the first time we've put a Starship into the water." Calling it SpaceX's "softest splashdown" ever, he hailed the latest test flight launch as "Lucky number 13."

"This is a dream scenario for this team that's trying to get this heat shield data," Huot exclaimed.

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