New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- Elon Musk led SpaceX's giant Starship rocket finally pulled off its most successful flight on Tuesday, marking its 10th test flight after a string of failed attempts and fiery explosions in earlier tests. But the re-entry left its mark, leaving the rear flaps of the spacecraft scorched during splashdown.

A video of the splashdown, posted by The Daily Mail, captured the moment a fiery yellow-orange blaze lit up the vast stretches of the dark blue Indian Ocean, SpaceX starship endured engine blasts, with the rear flaps burned while the spacecraft settled into the ocean.

The 400-foot booster lifted off smoothly from SpaceX's Starbase site in Texas at 7:30 pm EST, following two nights of delays caused by weather and te...