Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship
It's the biggest and mightiest rocket ever built, with the lofty goals of ferrying people to the moon and Mars.
For this demo, SpaceX won’t attempt any landings of the rocket or the spacecraft. Everything will fall into the sea.
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