By Aila Slisco is a Newsweek night reporter based in New York. Her focus is on reporting national politics, where she has covered the 2020 and 2022 elections, the impeachments of Donald Trump and multiple State of the Union addresses. Other topics she has reported on for Newsweek include crime, public health and the emergence of COVID-19. Aila was a freelance writer before joining Newsweek in 2019. You can get in touch with Aila by emailing a.slisco@newsweek.com. Languages: English. Writers Page said that there would be "a lot of things you're going to learn" from the destruction of the spacecraft. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk had not publicly commented on the Starship explosion at the time of publication, although he posted about the "launch attempt" on X shortly before it occurred. What People Are Saying Huot, commenting on the failure during a livestream of the launch: "Unfortunately, this happened last time too. So, we've got some practice at this now ... The primary reason we do these flight tests is to learn. We have some more to learn about this vehicle, but we're going to be right back here in the not-too-distant future and we're going to get a ship to space." Democratic strategist Chris D. Jackson, in a post to X: "Another one of Elon Musk's taxpayer-funded Starship rockets just exploded—AGAIN. How many billions are we wasting on this failure factory? Everything Musk touches blows up, catches fire, or crashes—including the Trump Administration." Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, on X: "So nice to know that Musk's failed SoaceX [sic] starship rocket that exploded tonight has stopped all flights into multiple FL airports. Oh and Soace [sic] X gets multiple federal contracts." What Happens Next Commercial flight operations returned to normal in Florida shortly after the SpaceX explosion on Thursday. The next Starship test flight was previously expected to take place as early as April, although the exact timing of the flight is unclear. SpaceX's Starship lifts off for its eighth test flight from Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on March 6. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images) SpaceX's Starship lifts off for its eighth test flight from Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on March 6. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images) \ \ Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground. \ \ \ ';uncommonKnowledgeItems[0].insertAdjacentHTML('afterend',uncommonKnowledgeContainerHtml);let uncommonKnowledgeContainerElement=document.getElementsByClassName('uncommon-knowledge');let itemsContainerElement=document.getElementById('uncommon-knowledge-items-container');uncommonKnowledgeContainerElement[0].style.display='block';uncommonKnowledgeItems.forEach((itemUncommon)=>{document.getElementById('uncommon-knowledge-items-container').insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','