SpaceX plans to carry out its first test flight on Monday of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and eventually beyond.
is scheduled to take place at 7:00 am from the sprawling Texas base of the private space company owned by billionaire Elon Musk.The US space agency NASA has picked the Starship capsule to ferry itsStarship consists of a reusable capsule that carries crew and cargo and the first-stage Super Heavy booster rocket.SpaceX conducted a successful test-firing of the 33 Raptor engines on the first-stage booster of Starship in February.
SpaceX foresees eventually putting a Starship into orbit, and then refueling it with another Starship so it can continue on a journey to Mars or beyond.
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