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Despite a truly last second abort of the final Starhopper test flight on Monday (which turned out to be a minor technical issue that Elon Musk called “...Embarassing,” the SpaceX Starhopper made its last hop late Tuesday afternoon -- perfectly. The 57 second flight saw a planned maximum altitude of 500 feet, as well as a precision landing near the center of an adjacent landing pad. The Starhopper test was the last flight of this vehicle and was never intended to go to space... but instead serve as a partial test of a far more ambitious vehicle. The first flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to ISS may not take place by th