Elon Musk's SpaceX called off its first launch attempt of its giant rocket Monday after a problem cropped up during fuelling
The 120-metre tall Starship easily eclipses NASA’s moon rockets — the 109-metre Saturn V from the bygone Apollo era and the 98-metre Space Launch System from the Artemis program that logged its first lunar trip late last year. It also outflanks the former Soviet Union’s 105-metre N1 moon rocket , which never made it past a minute into flight, exploding with no one aboard.Most of the universe is invisible dark matter.
Down the road from the launch pad is the complex where SpaceX has been developing and building Starship prototypes for the past several years. The complex, called Starbase, has more than 1,800 employees, who live in Brownsville or elsewhere in the Rio Grande Valley. The Texas launch pad is equipped with giant robotic arms — called chopsticks — to eventually grab a returning booster as it lands.
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